Gracey Page 108 Relation example essay topic

Gracey: Characters: Dougy: He is Gracey's brother. He doesn't like school and hangs around with his friends. He has had no significant contact with white culture so he cannot understand the change on Gracey when she comebacks from schools. Before she went to Halminton College, she and Dougy where similar but two years after he realizes how different they are. However, he is not proud of his aboriginal culture, he just is there living without goal or purpose in life but when he finds the bones and Kevin and Paddy 'Osh eas organize a rally to stop the construction of the new community hall, he feels proud of being aboriginal for the first time in his life. When his brother dies, he realizes that Raymond gave up fighting to get a better future and he decides that he doesn't want to finish like Raymond.

He decides to fight just like those 6 men buried. Trent: He is a policeman from the city who tries to be objective and far with everyone. At the beginning he regards Raymond highly because of his footy skills. However, the facts that he is with white people that regard aborigines as rubbish, that he doesn't know how to deal with aborigines, that cannot understand their behavior and he has to be dealing with aborigines all the time make him to misunderstand aborigines and treat them as rubbish. Gracey: Gracey is an aboriginal girl that has been studying in Halminton College for 2 years. Before going to Halminton College she was attached to her family and her culture.

However, when she goes to Halminton College she undergoes a severe transformation. The contact with white culture has led her to suppress her aboriginal identity. This can be seen by seeing how ashamed is Gracey to show her family to Angela, the fact that she calls herself "Grace" (A more "Australian" name) and tells Angela that Halminton College is her home now and how dismissive is about Dougy's findings. However at the formal, when her partner, a white boy, comments on her ab originality, she begins to wonder who she really is. This, plus the research she do in Oxley Library and the books her English teacher has lent to her, make her confused about her true identity. Then, her mother dies and she comebacks to Cunningham and then she decides to be a "murry" again and take the responsibility of carrying the family.

When she meets Kevin, she becomes an activist for aboriginal rights. However, the death of Raymond and her final conversation with Paddy convinces her to be an aboriginal activist but her own way: studying in a university and use the white people "weapons" to fight injustices against aborigines. Bert McNamara: Raymond: He thinks that all white men are racist and that they don't give him an opportunity because he is black. He likes to think so and drinks to forget his problems and run away. At the end, he decides that there is nothing worth to be living for and commits suicide. Language Techniques: -The use of first perspective to reinforce the characters' opinions and make us to feel closer to them and empathize with their perspective.

-The clear bias towards Gracey and Dougy and the use of Trent's perspective to have a white perspective. -chronological sequence of events -the language is emotive and colloquial with many examples of racist slang and some features of aboriginal English. Examples: boong, Oh! shit, arvo, white, piss off. Quotes: "He's different. I'm different. We just don't have much in common anymore". page 1- Gracey "If I've got a home now, it's Halminton College, Brisbane, a thousand kilometers away from here" page 3- Gracey "They hate us"- Dougy in relation to the police. page 25. "They " re only interested in sticking us in gaol"- Dougy referring to the police page 32 "Angela's right about going to the police"- Gracey. page 32 "Do the right thing?

Bullshit. He's black" -policeman- page 64. "you were trespassing" -Policeman page 35 "I was exploring"- Dougy's response page 35 "Don't keep calling me Gracey" -Gracey page 36 "I'm glad the cops are keeping that skull" -Gracey page 36 "I'd learned the dance very very and I was happy"- Gracey page 60 "Back to Hamilton College - my home" Gracey page 60 "It's a load of shit anyway" Dougy about the school. page 65 "I as a black island in a sea of white faces in a way that I had never been before" Gracey page 108 Relation to: Educating Rita: Their relation is that Rita and Gracey are looking for meaning in their lifes but they find problems and that they have to make sacrifices to reach their goal. Hikaru No Go: both Hikaru and Gracey feel trapped between two incompatible worlds. Gracey has to deal with white and black cultures and Hikaru has to deal with "normal" Japanese culture and Go culture.

The study is dealing with the same problems that the novel but their approach is different. While the study is more scientific and factual, Gracey is fiction and emotive. Sky High: Both characters have to grow, not because they want to but because they have to. Just as Hannah grows and realizes that she cannot "travel" by the washing line, Gracey through a serie of events realizes that she cannot ignore her problems and do as they never existed. Charles Sturt: Just as Gracey realizes that her efforts to be a full "white" girl are in vain, Sturt realizes that his searching for the inland sea is in vain.