Now you’ll analyze the next part of Mandela’s speech by using three reading strategies to analyze the development of its central ideas. Use the Highlighting tool () to mark repeated imagery in yellow. Click on the question-mark icon to read the questions. Then open the Notebook tool () and answer the questions. To my compatriots, I have no hesitation in saying that each one of us is as intimately attached to the soil of this beautiful country as are the famous jacaranda trees of Pretoria and the mimosa trees of the bushveld.​

Each time one of us touches the soil of this land, we feel a sense of personal renewal. The national mood changes as the seasons change. We are moved by a sense of joy and exhilaration when the grass turns green and the flowers bloom.​

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What is he saying about the country’s natural landscape and its people?

That spiritual and physical oneness we all share with this common homeland explains the depth of the pain we all carried in our hearts as we saw our country tear itself apart in a terrible conflict, and as we saw it spurned, outlawed and isolated by the peoples of the world, precisely because it has become the universal base of the pernicious ideology and practice of racism and racial oppression.​

We, the people of South Africa, feel fulfilled that humanity has taken us back into its bosom, that we, who were outlaws not so long ago, have today been given the rare privilege to be host to the nations of the world on our own soil.​

The time for the healing of the wounds has come. The moment to bridge the chasms that divide us has come. The time to build is upon us.