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How is a particular perspective constructed in the novel (aboriginal…
How is a particular perspective constructed in the novel (aboriginal perspective)
Dialogue
Settings
Gull city
Detention centre
From the author's perspective, the detention center is constructed as a place of fear and restriction, which is contrasted by the freedom the firstwood is viewed as having. This setting helps to construct the author's perspective in the novel by bringing two contrasting settings that could be seen during the stolen generations into the novel. The detention centre could represent churches, education camps and schools that aboriginal children were taken to after they had been stolen from their families. This setting construction helps to create a specific perspective by liking a significant setting from real life into a fiction novel.
Dialogue (quotes)
Conventions
Firstwood
The firstwood is a place that the author might relate to as a home when contrasted with the detention center that represents education camps, schools, and churches that aboriginal children were taken to after being ripped apart from their families. This setting helps to construct a perspective in the novel by taking locations experienced in real life and linking them to settings in the novel.
Characterisation
Ahsala
Ashala represents a tribe leader or elder of a tribe. She is constructed in this way through the selflessness of her acts and the fact that she is always looking after members of her tribe. Her characterization helps to construct a perspective in the novel by linking a significant part of the aboriginal culture into the novel and fantasizing it.
illegals
The illegals are representative of refugees and aboriginal people from the stolen generation. They are constructed this way through specific descriptions of children being stolen away from their families due to hidden abilities, which is a fantasied version of the stolen generations.
Neville Rose
The character of Neville Rose helps to construct the novel's perspective by bringing forward one of the main characters in charge of the detention facility where illegals are taken after being removed from their families. The characterisation of Neville Rose develops him to be a man with a falsely kind exterior but a cruel and twisted goal. He represents how the author would see government officials in charge of the stole generations and in turn helps to construct the perspective of the novel.
Serpent
The serpent in the novel is a creator spirit, a divine being who created life on the post-apocalyptic earth. It represents the rainbow serpent in aboriginal culture, who is seen as a creator god much like the serpent in the novel. This helps to construct the specific viewpoint in the novel by implementing a figure that is significant in aboriginal culture into the novel
Novel conventions
Language conventions
Narrative conventions