Catching Teller Crow Quotes

Catching Teller Crow is a fictional novel written by the authors, Ambelin Kwaymullina and Ezekeil Kwaymullina, published in 2018. Ambelin Kwaymullina and Ezekeil Kwaymullina are Indigenous Aboriginal authors who wrote Catching Teller Crows to share the experiences and history of Aboriginal stories. The novel is about a girl, Beth Teller, who died at 15 years old in a car accident and has been roaming around on earth as a ghost alongside her detective father. She finds herself trapped on earth, unable to move on to the afterlife as she is too fixated on trying to relieve her father of his grief. The background of the authors is vividly represented as events in Catching teller crow references many events in Aboriginal History. Through the novel,

On page 168, “She’s right, my mind knows it”. But my body wants to flee. I haven’t got all my grey. Theres still a piece buried inside. A grey that makes me want to hide from the feed”, in this quote, Isobel Catching hesitates to confront the “feeder” because she feels frightened. The audience is positioned to resonate with Catching through the use of metaphoric language as the audience is made to perceive Catching as a relatable character that, too, is nervous when faced with adversity. The author uses metaphoric language in this quote by using the colour grey as an embodiment of Isobel Catching’s fear, because grey is a colour that represents sorrow and hesitation. In context to the novel, Isobel Catching shares her story about being vulnerable to show Beth Teller that even when faced with adversity, she must have faith and keep moving onwards like Catching did. The authors refer to Teller’s guilt in “causing” her father’s grieving as Teller’s adversity and emphasises the idea of being able to forgive and move on to the audience through Beth Teller’s character development. Teller acknowledges her intentions of sharing the story as she says, “you told me the story to show me how to move on,’ (page 190), referring to how Isobel Catching didn’t let her cruel treatment stop her from moving on. This is further evidence of how the author uses storytelling as a form of empowerment. Further evidence of Catching playing a role model for Teller is shown in page _____ of the novel, “it was something to do with the story. Something in it that told me she’d made it out alive,” the author uses metaphoric language here as “she’d made it out alive” refers to Catching as a lively person that doesn’t fit her standards of “dead”. In this quote, it is seen that Teller believes that Catching is strong and held out hope that she survived. This shows that Teller’s perception of dead is