Well the target audiences are very different, because at the political party the speaker is trying to persuade the audience to agree with him/her where as the target audience for the academic paper are trying to tech their audience on the topic, also the thesis is more clearly stated in the academic paper.
The characters name means fortunate, but the events. in the story show that he isn't fortunate, because he gets sealed behind a concrete wall, so sadly he isn't fortunate even though that's what his name means.
