No Sugar- Characters
Characters- No Sugar
Through the characters names all the aboriginal names are given Christian names while the white characters almost without exception are given titles and surnames. This humanizes the aboriginal characters and dehumanizes the white characters while highlighting their position of power.
White characters are demonized by their actions as well as their names, they refer to going back to the Tasmanian solution (pg44), showing that they have no regard for the aboriginal’s lives.
JP:
Racist- he refers to the aboriginal people as natives, and sees them as people who don’t belong..
We Repelled by his cruel treatment towards the Aborigines.
Impatient, self-centred- (interrupting) Look, I'm not interested in what you had for dinner. If you've got an explanation, just tell me what it is.
Frank-
The only white character, Frank brown is the only one who has a real relationship with the aboriginals and he is the only one of the white characters who’s afforded a white name.
He’s accused of supplying liquor to jimmy.
Millie-
Persists and does what she believes is right.
‘Stereotypical women’ and caring mother to her children.
Supportive mother, takes care of her child when she’s sick- My girls in hospital, we need blankets.
Jimmy-
Aboriginal, lack of education- “sorry sir I was on the shit bucket…toilet, got guts ache.
Impatient and persistent- will not give up on seeing Mr Neville.
Says what he thinks –‘You know one thing about Fremantle gaol even some of them screws are polite- not like this place. Native protector couldn’t protect my dog from fleas.
Neville-
Racist
Believes aboriginals do not and should not have the same power and allowances as white people.
Ignorant and Disrespectful: Munday let me give you some advice sugar catches more flies then vinegar.
Although reats white people with respect. E.g. Miss Dunn
Gran and Jimmy:
These are the two characters evolve in the passage through their
Through the characters names all the aboriginal names are given Christian names while the white characters almost without exception are given titles and surnames. This humanizes the aboriginal characters and dehumanizes the white characters while highlighting their position of power.
White characters are demonized by their actions as well as their names, they refer to going back to the Tasmanian solution (pg44), showing that they have no regard for the aboriginal’s lives.
JP:
Racist- he refers to the aboriginal people as natives, and sees them as people who don’t belong..
We Repelled by his cruel treatment towards the Aborigines.
Impatient, self-centred- (interrupting) Look, I'm not interested in what you had for dinner. If you've got an explanation, just tell me what it is.
Frank-
The only white character, Frank brown is the only one who has a real relationship with the aboriginals and he is the only one of the white characters who’s afforded a white name.
He’s accused of supplying liquor to jimmy.
Millie-
Persists and does what she believes is right.
‘Stereotypical women’ and caring mother to her children.
Supportive mother, takes care of her child when she’s sick- My girls in hospital, we need blankets.
Jimmy-
Aboriginal, lack of education- “sorry sir I was on the shit bucket…toilet, got guts ache.
Impatient and persistent- will not give up on seeing Mr Neville.
Says what he thinks –‘You know one thing about Fremantle gaol even some of them screws are polite- not like this place. Native protector couldn’t protect my dog from fleas.
Neville-
Racist
Believes aboriginals do not and should not have the same power and allowances as white people.
Ignorant and Disrespectful: Munday let me give you some advice sugar catches more flies then vinegar.
Although reats white people with respect. E.g. Miss Dunn
Gran and Jimmy:
These are the two characters evolve in the passage through their