Analysis Of Nanberry By Jackie French

Nanberry survives the sickness with medication from the doctor but is then orphaned after watching his parents die. The boy, Nanberry grows close to the lonely Surgeon White and with no-one left to care for him he is adopted for use a translator and much need company. The book gives insight into the lives of aboriginal people, it also focuses on the impacts that the first settlers from England had on them, which is still evident today in this day and age. The book has helped me to have a greater understanding of the hardships that the aboriginals went through in these bleak times, sickness, violence, racism and loss of their land.

Andrews, Ah Kee and Bennett provide similar subject matter, focusing on the ideas and effects of Aboriginal culture as well as its influences from and within contemporary Australian society. However, each artist depicts the subject matter with various degrees of severity in regards to their personal expression on said subject matter. Bennett’s artwork deals with the idea of how “stereotypes” are “fixed by assumptions about geography class and race”, utilising the style of artist Jean Michel Basquiat to display Australian politics . Bennett conveys this through the creation of primitive figures overlapping supposed famous Australian political figures including Peter Garrett and Anna Bligh.

Throughout 1750 to 1950 many societies fell under the control of the imperialistic societies. Several of the societies that fell under the control of empires were terribly effected by the extreme expectations and lived in terrible poverty and fear. Many of the original natives that lived in the lands suffered after their land was conquered. In the late nineteenth century, the British took hold of both Australia and New Zealand leaving negative effects.

The dust across the mid ground of the painting contrasts against the blue and green hues of the top third of the painting. The detail of the drover on his horse in the foreground of the painting shows how Roberts can have intricate details whilst maintaining a soft and smooth stroke line. This interprets the theme of ‘The Bush’ by comparing it to Australia’s inner core landscape. The green from the trees is perched above and away from the earthy tones below. The perfectly blue sky shows a hope in the distance indicating the help the drover needs in this story.

In her book Nanberry, Jackie French portrays colonial life as a very confusing and perplexing time for both the Indigenous Australians and the White British Settlers, albeit in different ways. With the Indigenous Australians confused by the sudden invasion of the white settler (ghosts), and the British Settlers becoming confused by the new sights, smells and culture of ‘Sydney Cove’. Through the characters of Nanberry, Surgeon White and Bennelong, the viewer is shown just how confusing their life was at the time of the first settlement in Australia. Nanberry is one of the main characters in French’s book, and is a prime way through which she portrays colonial life as perplexing and confusing. Nanberry was born into, and partially raised by an Indigenous Australian family, however he was adopted by Surgeon White at the tender age of eight or nine.

In the first source, the author takes the dominant, societal view that Columbus had, which held the perspective that colonialism is a positive thing. Normally, at a European perspective, someone would see Columbus as a great symbol, but, this author challenges that view with his own as an Aboriginal. The author finds colonialism and imperialism as a negative effect on Aboriginals as he uses unflattering vocabulary to express his deep concern with colonialism such as “the exploitation of people” and “in which people were dispossessed from their land and forced out of…” From these few sentences, it gives a strong impression that the author was not happy with the results of colonization. An infamous example that came from the effect of colonialism was when the Indian Act was first introduced.

For over 40,000 years Indigenous Australians have enjoyed one of the most stable civilisations in the history of the planet. Through their complex social and spiritual systems they have maintained a historical record of all those has preceded them as well as maintained a harmonious balance between them and the local environment. This all changed once the convict fleet from England arrived, they claimed the land in the name of the crown believing the land was barren. This was based on the consideration that the indigenous population present were not civilised or more accurately what they saw didn’t meet their standard of what is civilised.

Alienating and Suppressing the Wild Thomas King’s A Short History of Indians in Canada introduces the effects of colonialism and bias established on indigenous peoples’ reputation through satire. King’s play on major metaphors and animal depiction of indigenous people paints an image of an abhorrent and gruesome history. Through moments of humour, King makes references to racial profiling, stereotypes and mistreatment as historically true. Thomas King utilizes industrialization versus the natural world to incorporate the effects of colonialism and how representing indigenous people as birds made them the spectacle of the civilized world. The colonizer dominance and power imbalance is evident and demonstrated often in the short story through

Personal pronouns such as ‘them, we and us” are emphasised heavily to show a segregation between the Indigenous people and the European settlers. In addition to this, it’s included to inflict an accusing tone upon the rabbits, portraying that the rabbits are the only ones at fault to the audience. Tan emphasises the idea that in their efforts to learn, European settlers are destroying the land in which aboriginals lived in with harmony for generations by juxtaposing an illustration of cows attached to milking machines and labelled what parts of meat they will be together with branded sheep, with a barren piece of land and an empty pond full of dead fish. Tan uses size and position to convey the power of the European settlers with their guns and weapons in comparison to the Indigenous people with only their spears for protection. He chooses to use a double spread to construct a picture of the European settler arriving during the beginning of the text.

Critical Summary #3: First Nations Perspectives In Chapter eight of Byron Williston’s Environmental Ethics for Canadians First Nation’s perspectives are explored. The case study titled “Language, Land and the Residential Schools” begins by speaking of a public apology from former Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper. He apologizes for the treatment of “Indians” in “Indian Residential Schools”. He highlights the initial agenda of these schools as he says that the “school system [was] to remove and isolate [Aboriginal] children from the influence of their homes, families, traditions and cultures, and to assimilate them[…]” (Williston 244).

Presents accepted historical truths from a new perspective. The drowning man depicted symbolises that Anglo-Saxon people are drowning out the communities, and cultural differences of the African Americans and aboriginal people, ruining their unique identity. The group of indigenous Australians sitting around a camp fire and one larger figure on the right in the composition, portray Bennett’s feeling of not being accepted by either the Aboriginal people or the Anglo-Celtic. This painting directly links with the lost identity of Gordon Bennett and many others of the lost generation people with his confused cultural background. He raises questions through his artworks about both his own individual understanding of who he is and also the oppression and racism towards the Australian Aboriginal people particularly as recorded in

Behind him, another man is holding some instruments. In the background, there are waves of blue. At the left side of the painting, there are lightening bolts. At the bottom left of the painting, there is a board connecting the ground to the boats, allowing some animals to enter. Behind that, there is a person on a ladder, carrying an item on their back.

A Literary Comparison The Victorian period can be described as one of imperial expansion abroad and social upheaval at home. Evidently, millions left Britain’s shores either as ambitious merchants, ruthless warriors, or peaceful settlers consumed by desire to attain a safe haven. In this unique assignment, our core focus revolves around the representation of different colonial territories and their influences in Conan Doyle’s The Sign of Four and Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Beach of Falesa. According to prominent social thinkers such as John Ruskin, British Victorian respectability was plainly reflected in the amount of security that luxurious homes guaranteed.

Hopefully with safety and with security and with love, and knowledge that they’ll be safe when they wake up in the morning. What the headline in the newspaper a father is holding is “ Bombing Harbors In London” referencing the raging was in the Europe at the time when America stepped into World War II(“ the Saturday Evening Post”). Of course, we know this isn’t so everywhere in the world. So this painting captured the beautifully concept of being free from fear with the universal moment that everyone could identify with

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