In comparing President Bush's speech to Tony Blair's the reader can see some similarities as well as differences. Both rely on images about the future and hope in the future. The differences is in there tone. President Bush's follows a pattern of past, present and future. Tony Blair's tone is that of why could an act of terrorism such as his occur. President Bush's speech follows a pattern expressing the past "all that have just passed” to an expression about the current how "we are suffered a great lose" and then points at the future "life will return to normal" Tony Blair focuses on the why. He describes a normal afternoon of tea and the back drop is the act of terrorism against our nation. Painting an image for the listener of normal
