Jimmy Munday Quotes

Task One
Provide a brief summary of the main characters in the text?
Jimmy Munday
• Despises that fact he is not an equal in society
• Has a heart condition which leads him to his death after arguing with Mr Neville
• Been to jail four times (not affected by going back)
• Imprisoned the fifth time for possession of alcohol, being noisy and abusive and damage of police property (3 months)
Gran Munday
• Jimmy’s and Milly’s mother
• Backbone of the family (the protector)(matriarch of the family)
• Open about her feelings and emotions (very opinionated)
• Originally made all her food and other essential needs using the resources provided in nature (whites taking all the land hence she can’t make all the things she used to)
• Brags
Milly Millimurra
• Jimmy’s sister, Sam’s wife, Gran’s daughter, mother of Joe, Cissie and David
• Does her best to care for her children (act one scene six [Cissie is sick])
• Doesn’t like the way she or her family is treated but understands she cannot do much about it
Sam Millimurra
• Milly’s husband, father of Joe, Cissie and David
• Frequently caught with jimmy breaking the law
• Not as outgoing and vocal as jimmy
• Plays it safe when it comes to the law
• He knows what is going on but doesn’t do anything to stop it
Joe Millimurra
• Milly’s eldest son
• Has a bad temper
• Does not tolerate the treatment of aborigines (law is almost scared of him)
• Tries to run away with Mary (get found and Mary is sent back, Joe is sent to prison)
• Mary is David’s love interest, falls pregnant and at the end is released from prison and him and Mary with their new son end up leaving the camp
Cissie Millimurra
• Milly and Sam’s
Matron: That’s all just the four of them.
The belief that all aboriginals are dirty (have scabies) is wrong. Because of racist views and ignorant minds that is how whites perceive aborigines. But out of the 89 sent to the Moore River settlement only 4 had them.

Task Seven
Consider your personal context; how might this impede or enhance your reading of this drama? Does it at all? Are you moved at all to what occurs in the text? Who do you side with? Why?
I believe equality for all and am against racism therefore my reading of this drama is impeded. The treatment of aborigines is appalling and therefore I am moved by this text because of my views. I side with the aborigines with the majority of their thoughts, words and actions. Because most of the time what they do is due to them fighting for equality and to be heard. When the aborigines just act out to push the law to see what they can get away with I don’t agree with this.
Task Eight
What intertextual links can you make to No Sugar and Montana 1948? Do any exist? If so, what are they and why are they relevant?
 Both dominated by whites
 Natives are the less dominated people
 men that use the status in society to take advantage of the native