pg. 107 - Blackwood (colonisation)
Give a little, take a little, that's the only way... Otherwise your as dead as a flea
pg. 4 - Thornhill (place and belonging)
Nothing more than a flea on the side of some enormous quiet creature
pg. 106 - Thornhill (poverty)
It was a piercing hunger in his guts: to own it. To say mine, in a way he had never been able to say mine of anything at all
pg. 298 - Smasher (discrimination and conflict)
Sterminate them...No one going to come straight out and say it but ain't it the only way
pg. 161 - Sal (place and belonging)
It'll do us till we go
pg. 93 - Thornhill (colonisation)
There were no signs that the blacks felt the place belonged to them. They had no fences that said this is mine
introduction starter
'The Secret River' by Kate Grenville, is a highly controversial story sharing the history of the colonisation of Australia. The purpose of the novel was to set light to the unimaginable meeting between cultures, as the British swept the near extinction of Indigenous Australians under the rug as they set foot in Sydney.
juxtaposing
placing two or more things side by side to compare similarities and differences
key themes of the novel
poverty, place and belonging
Terra Nullius
no man's land