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Ned Kelly was a bushranger from the 1800’s he lived from 1854 to 1880. He lived in North-East Victoria. The renowned bushranger is a victim due to a number of reasons. He was driven into crime because of his dysfunctional childhood, he also suffered from social discrimination and was born into a family of criminals, together these show that Ned Kelly was a victim of circumstances. Ned Kelly had a flawed childhood because of his alcoholic father's death and the financial state of his large family. Ned Kelly became the head of the family at the age of 12, even though he wasn't the oldest child. Ned had to work strenuously to make money to help feed the hungry mouths of his younger brothers and sisters. As shown in the "Black Snake: The Daring of Ned Kelly” written by Carole Wilkinson, Ned had an extremely arduous life, by the age of 10 his father had gone to jail for six months, consequently, Ned had to take his father’s place on the farm. His circumstances prove that to Ned didn’t have anyone teach him to be a …show more content…

"Black Snake: The Daring of Ned Kelly” shows that Ned's life was exceedingly burdensome. At the age of 15, he was drawn into a fight that had nothing to do with him and was charged with ‘vicious assault’. Even after claiming his innocence, the police solely ignored him and he ended up serving six months in prison for no good reason. Ned spent three years of his life trying to live an honest life but the Victorian police watched the Kelly's like hawks and accused them of crimes they did not commit such as stealing horses. How could Ned have lived an honest life if every single time he looked over his shoulder, a trooper would be standing there with both guns loaded and aimed at his forehead? He couldn’t! These factors caused him to be driven to the life of a bushranger. Police harassment and life with criminals as relatives were main

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His parent’s john and Ellen Kelly. Ned left school in 1864 when he was just 10 years old after his father died in cattle related incident whilst he was helping Ned’s grandfather James Quin. The Kelly and Quin families where often accused of stealing horses and cattle but they where never actually convicted of these crimes. In 1869 Ned was only 14 and was convicted of assaulting a local pig famer and served 7 weeks in jail for his first convicted offence.

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In this quote on page 24 it says in the detail that Ned had been punished which we can tell from his injuries and a boy in the same situation helping Ned telling him something to keep him strong or sane. “I staggered outside and fell down to my knees. My vision was blurry and my lips were cut and bleeding. Tommy Nez, who was the first friend I made in school, lifted me up to my feet.

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Ned Kelly – Hero or Villain? Ned Kelly, the notorious criminal known for his many offenses, allegedly committed in the name of justice, was born in the small town of Beveridge in Victoria. He was the first of eight children to John Kelly and Ellen, née Quinn (five daughters and three sons). Ned went to school in Avenel until the death of his father on the 27th of September 1866, when his now poor mother moved them to a hut in Eleven Mile Creek.

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Ned Kelly: Hero, Villain or Victim Edward ‘Ned’ Kelly was a “troublemaker” for the Victorian police. At the age of 12 he was sent to jail and he spent 3 years in jail for stealing a pig. Over his life, he stole hundreds of cattle and horse, robbed two banks and killed three innocent policemen. He was hanged in 1880 and the government collected more than 32,000 signatures in five days on a petition from the townspeople, who were against the death of Ned Kelly. Ned Kelly was born in 1854 and lived a couple of kilometres north of Victoria.

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Ned’s family as well as al his friends grew up in the great era of poverty. Ned Kelly was a victim of the corrupt police force. Police in the early colonial days were very brutal due to their power and status (Wilkinson, 2002). Also, when fighting in the Glenrowan involved only greedy police wanting the reward that was landed on Ned’s head almost 2 million Australian 2012 dollars. (Jerilderie Letter; Ned Kelly)(McKenna, 2014)

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