The Sugar Jack Davis Analysis
Dramatic Performance
NO SUGAR
Directors of stage performances usually use Dramatic performance to hold the viewers attention and also bring obvious ideas to the viewer's attention. Jack Davis uses dramatic performance in his stage play No Sugar'. To deliver this dramatic performance that regards Aboriginal values, Jack Davis uses a rage of techniques such as characterization and language. He does this in order to position the reader/viewer into completely agreeing with his views on racial discrimination, segregation and marginalization.
Jack Davis depicts Aboriginal living conditions to be very basic and poor. He provides a revised and extensive description throughout the stage play. With this being a stage play, the representation …show more content…
Gran is the most characterized person in this stage play, she is the Boss' of the family and whatever she says goes, even when she is talking to white people. "You don't want to shout like that, Chargeant. You'll ave a fit, just like a dingo when he gets bait". Gran also knows many survival techniques that include making flour "Grind up Jam and wattle seeds", or how to make soap out of a particular bush. Grans dramatic performance when dealing with matters underlines the main idea that Aboriginals deserve respect as they are very organized, and although undereducated in the white mans culture, they are smart in their own way. In addition, Grans actual name isn't mentioned in the stage play, she is simply called Gran', this conveys the idea that this family has close bonds between each other and that everybody respects Gran enough to call her their grandma, even though this may not be …show more content…
An example of symbolism being used to characterize white people as being well off is on page 45, "His sheep are cruel fat"; this addition to the story makes it seem as if white people are bathing in riches, where in actual fact many of them lived in quite bad conditions themselves. This exaggeration delivers dramatic performance by labeling the black people as being extremely disadvantaged compared to all white people. Jack Davis uses imagery at the very beginning when the black people are playing cricket, which is a white person's game. This illustrates that Aboriginals have lost their culture due to white peoples influence "David and Cissie play cricket with a home-made bat and
NO SUGAR
Directors of stage performances usually use Dramatic performance to hold the viewers attention and also bring obvious ideas to the viewer's attention. Jack Davis uses dramatic performance in his stage play No Sugar'. To deliver this dramatic performance that regards Aboriginal values, Jack Davis uses a rage of techniques such as characterization and language. He does this in order to position the reader/viewer into completely agreeing with his views on racial discrimination, segregation and marginalization.
Jack Davis depicts Aboriginal living conditions to be very basic and poor. He provides a revised and extensive description throughout the stage play. With this being a stage play, the representation …show more content…
Gran is the most characterized person in this stage play, she is the Boss' of the family and whatever she says goes, even when she is talking to white people. "You don't want to shout like that, Chargeant. You'll ave a fit, just like a dingo when he gets bait". Gran also knows many survival techniques that include making flour "Grind up Jam and wattle seeds", or how to make soap out of a particular bush. Grans dramatic performance when dealing with matters underlines the main idea that Aboriginals deserve respect as they are very organized, and although undereducated in the white mans culture, they are smart in their own way. In addition, Grans actual name isn't mentioned in the stage play, she is simply called Gran', this conveys the idea that this family has close bonds between each other and that everybody respects Gran enough to call her their grandma, even though this may not be …show more content…
An example of symbolism being used to characterize white people as being well off is on page 45, "His sheep are cruel fat"; this addition to the story makes it seem as if white people are bathing in riches, where in actual fact many of them lived in quite bad conditions themselves. This exaggeration delivers dramatic performance by labeling the black people as being extremely disadvantaged compared to all white people. Jack Davis uses imagery at the very beginning when the black people are playing cricket, which is a white person's game. This illustrates that Aboriginals have lost their culture due to white peoples influence "David and Cissie play cricket with a home-made bat and