Minority Essay
Marginalized Groups Essay
The two texts that I have studied, one been an autobiographical narrative and the other been fiction, have challenged the dominant ideology about marginalised groups at the time they were published. Both texts explore racism against African Americans and Indigenous Australians. I will compare and contrast a fiction and a non-fiction text that I studied, the first being the short story “Indian Camp” written by Ernest Hemingway in 1923 in which the reader is told how the white people abused the Native Indians with no remorse shown and viewed them as less than, in society. “Indians Camp” is about a doctor and his son that has to go and see an extremely pregnant lady who has been in labour for four days. He decided that he has to operate on her and all he has in a pocket knife, fishing line and a needle. Kevin Gilbert’s autobiographical narrative written in 1978 tells us in this short piece of writing about the hardships he went through and how he managed to overcome complications even when society was against him, he starts of from a young age telling the reader key events in his life, being his parents death, the struggle for food and money and how he develops into a man that ends up on the wrong side of the law and lands himself in jail. I will be showing how the techniques such as point of view and characterisation have positioned us to see the minority group exploited throughout these two pieces of writing. They show us how minority groups were demoralized during this time period and the techniques used made the stories effective in helping us to gain a better understanding about how unfairly these marginalised groups were treated back in the early and middle to late 1900’s, these marginalised groups roles where very different in society to what they are now, racism is now seen as intolerable in society compared to back in the 1900’s when it was social suitable, this shows us a major difference in society and its morals.
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The two texts that I have studied, one been an autobiographical narrative and the other been fiction, have challenged the dominant ideology about marginalised groups at the time they were published. Both texts explore racism against African Americans and Indigenous Australians. I will compare and contrast a fiction and a non-fiction text that I studied, the first being the short story “Indian Camp” written by Ernest Hemingway in 1923 in which the reader is told how the white people abused the Native Indians with no remorse shown and viewed them as less than, in society. “Indians Camp” is about a doctor and his son that has to go and see an extremely pregnant lady who has been in labour for four days. He decided that he has to operate on her and all he has in a pocket knife, fishing line and a needle. Kevin Gilbert’s autobiographical narrative written in 1978 tells us in this short piece of writing about the hardships he went through and how he managed to overcome complications even when society was against him, he starts of from a young age telling the reader key events in his life, being his parents death, the struggle for food and money and how he develops into a man that ends up on the wrong side of the law and lands himself in jail. I will be showing how the techniques such as point of view and characterisation have positioned us to see the minority group exploited throughout these two pieces of writing. They show us how minority groups were demoralized during this time period and the techniques used made the stories effective in helping us to gain a better understanding about how unfairly these marginalised groups were treated back in the early and middle to late 1900’s, these marginalised groups roles where very different in society to what they are now, racism is now seen as intolerable in society compared to back in the 1900’s when it was social suitable, this shows us a major difference in society and its morals.
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