Through this confrontation Noonuccal force them to discover the loss of land to the industrialisation which ultimately changes the moral toward the aboriginal community. This notion is elucidated through the quote “Hard bitumen around your feet”. The quote creates a juxtaposition of two distinct cultures through the use of personification of the “tree” and the diction of the words “hard bitumen and around”. The effort of personifying “the tree” allows us to see how much the indigenous Australians value their ethnic and culture while the diction of the word “Hard and around” metaphorically reveals the Aboriginal connection to the land as being lost and trapped inside the modernised world of the white Europeans. It is this juxtaposition of the two cultures that allows the responders to see the loss of indigenous bond to nature to industrialisation.
According to them, it is the influence of the devil that causes Shola to try to escape. In fact Shola is forced to repent and told the whipping will not end until she has renounced these heathen ways and promised to follow a more Christian life. After her repentance, Shola lays weeping on her bed, Shango appears and tells her to continue running and be strong. He gives her a Sankofa bird, which she claims gave her this new rebellious attitude. Up to this point in the story, Shola has had a timid, non- rebellious personality.
Jack Davis’ didactic play explores the nature of white society and the mistreatment of indigenous Australians as they struggle to survive in sub-human conditions amidst the great depression. Davis uses a variety of dramatic literary techniques to depict how hostile white culture controls society using apartheid-style policies. The lack of recognition and understanding led to unfair actions, as the indigenous battled to survive the depression. The ironic and contemptuous justification of power for misguided political agenda, unfortunately led to mass dispossession of the indigenous. Contrastingly, not all white Australians can be generalised by the behaviours of the few, with a couple of dissimilar figures being used to demonstrate alternate approaches as to the acceptance of the indigenous.
Much of their insecurity is from the cruel and vicious killings by white people on family members of their tribe. “The girl gave a frighten look at the whip he’d thrown on the ground, gathered her knees up awkwardly and lowered her head with a whimper.” pg 124. Georgiana’s similes to describe Australia, “the land was like a book offering its pages one by one” pg 264 show her appreciation and love for living in a country with things she can explore and discover. Other characters enjoy living in Australia but still found many negative aspects to it. On the other hand, Georgiana still had hardships and sometimes unconquerable scenes of her life but still considers Australia as a paradise.
This new life of savagery and chaos shows the loss of innocence. As the story progresses Golding uses many symbols like the character Jack, the jungle, the death of Simon and the change of weapons to portray and express this loss of innocence. The loss of innocence is easily portrayed through character Jack. He is very snotty nosed and thought very
It shows that he is willing to go through lots of stuggle in order to achieve his goal. Once he found out the bad news of Rosa’s untimely death “he had a vision of anger spreading through him like a malignant tumor, sullying the best hours of his life” (Allende pg 36). Trueba decided to leave to the countryside after Rosa’s death. Heading south indicates that Trueba is “digging deep into his own subconscious,” (Foster pg 170) trying to escape the city and all the bad memories he has there. “Literary geography is typically about humans inhabiting spaces, and at the same time the spaces that inhabit humans” (Foster pg 166).
“‘It’s a scarlet ibis,’ he said, pointing to a picture. ‘It lives in the tropics- South America to Florida.’” (Hurst 353). By this time, the readers know the bird is not in the right area, much like Doodle, who is a physically disabled caul baby and is therefore considered different and special. Even in death, there is similarity between the boy and the bird. The narrator states when Doodle dies, “Limply, he fell backward onto the earth.
Due to the high unemployment rates following the great depression, the working class were vulnerable to the unjust exploitation of power. Curley is portrayed as a character who lacks integrity and an oppressor of the economically autonomous dream of George and Lennie. Through a juxtaposition between power and helplessness, Curley is depicted as inhumane. The simile ‘like a terrier’ contrasts Curley’s docile and aggressive nature with Lennie who, with the animalistic imagery ‘huge paws’ and ‘bleated’ is likened to a passive and weak creature. Through an accumulation of violent images, ‘slashed’, ‘smashed’, ‘terror’ and ‘slugging’, the lack of justice and ethicality through power exploitation is exemplified.
Josie feels out of place because of the way she has been bought differently compared to her peers at school. Katia feels out of place having to leave her home country to move to Australia with Francesco. John feels out of place because of the pressure and high expectations to such degree to make him harm himself. The novel shows how characters overcome or do not overcome feeling out of
At the same time, Ryna is abandoned and left with the children, yet her name lives on through a scary, haunting gulch. Carr says‘The community rewards Solomon’s abandonment of his children but punishes Ryna’s inability to take care of them alone’ . This shows the oppressive, sexists attitudes the society in the novel has and portrays the plight Morrison presents black women to