Good morning teachers and students. My Speech today will be on the topic of ascendency and the individual that is shown through the texts: The chant of J Blacksmith, Excerpts from various law documents and a cartoon by Leunig c exclusivelyed number one day at school.
The novel Chant of J Blacksmith by Thomas Keneally described a hierarchy of business office and the struggles of an individual to fit in. The hierarchy can be unordered down to 2 major sections with the puritys on top and blacks on the bottom. J is an individual that is caught somewhere in between these 2 groups. J is a half caste aborigine outlook washed by the white society which had debased the autochthonic culture to a bare minimum. J, under this influence, lost all respect for his black culture and rejected its berth as they were depicted as beggars puking Hunter River Rotgut Sherry in the lee(prenominal) of hotel shit-houses and ppl who would lend out their wives for a suck from a brandy store.
Rejecting the blacks, J turned to pay his respect to the white authority. scenery out with white values and ambitions, J hoped to gain authority and status in the white society. However, he soon discovers that the white authority is fil guide with corruption and hypocrisy.
Keneallys representation of this is Farrell who is an
Extreme of abuse of authority. He forces J to betray another Aborigine Harry Edwards and this led to his suicide which is caused again by Farrells abuse of authority.
Despite wot he had seen, J still had hopes for the white society and later married a white kitchen maid, Gilda. J saw this as a lay on the line to enter the white society however he was wrong. His employer, the Newbys, exercised their authority over J and G putting...
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