We Are Going Oodgeroo Noonuccal Analysis
When your culture identity is marginalised you can feel dislocated and displaced, and believe that you do not belong to your culture or the dominant culture. The text ‘We are going’ by Oodgeroo Noonuccal explore this notion in response to the theme of not belonging. Noonuccal clearly describes the notion of Aboriginal people not fitting in as ‘subdued and silent’. Noonuccal’s use of sibilance and alliteration usage in the ‘s’ creates a soft tone effect which makes the aboriginal people feel a feeling of helplessness and lacking a voice to speak up to the white people. The Aboriginal people feel like they have already lost the rights to their land and the white people have already overtaken their land and gained power to treat the Aboriginal