What is belonging? How do we feel like we belong? Hi, my name is Ella Hughes and this morning I will be exploring the meaning of belonging and how it is displayed in the novel ‘Deadly Unna?’ written by Phillip Gwynne. In his award-winning novel, he strategically incorporated key events from his childhood into his novel, an example of this is that Blacky grows up in a small town with eight siblings in South Australia, while Phillip Gwynne grew up in a small fishing village with eight siblings in Melbourne. The book ‘Deadly Unna?’ is based off the small interracial friendship of two Aussie Rules Football teammates, Blacky, otherwise known as Gary Black, a white 14 year old boy who lived on the port with the ‘goonyas’ also referred to as the white population, he grew up as a child of 8 also living with his loving but highly ovwerworked mother and his verbally abusive, alcoholic father. Dumby Red, an aboriginal 15 year old boy was from the point where the ‘nungas’, more commonly known as the aboriginal population of the town lived, he grew up with his Father Tommy Red, his sister clarence and …show more content…
In chapter 22, Dumbys father is invited into the front bar after the local football team wins the grand finals match, he gets along well with everyone and Blacky’s dad says “he’s a character ain’t he, that Tommy Red?” after this was said, Big Mac makes a racist joke and says “Hey, did ya hear the one about the boong and the preist?”, Big Mac makes the joke because everyone in the front bar has shifted their attention to Tommy Red, this made him mad so he made the joke to bring the attention of the people in the front bar back to