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Touch Me Essay: Australian High School Life

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The novel Touch Me shows an aspect of current Australian high school life where friend groups will change over some pointless drama. In the novel this is shown with how none of Xaviers mates would dance with Nuala and they bullied xavier and Nuala because she was wearing tails which is a type of suit that guys normally wear. This essay i will be coving 4 points in the novel that i think relate a lot to a real life high school which is sexism, sport, rumours and friendships.

Sexism/ Sexual stereotypes
In the book Touch Me the author james moloney shows how sexism affects our daily lives and our society. Sexism is a underrated issue and is commonly unnoticed in our society but it affects everyone all the time. In the novel Nuala faces a lot of sexism because she dresses as a guy and that no one wanted to dance with her when she was wearing a tails. Another example of sexism/ Sexaul stereotypes is when Xavier won The ANZAC Day Essay Competition and that his friends made fun of him and said to him that he should be doing more …show more content…

In this novel xavier tries to balance them out until he chooses Nuala and then rugby career starts to decline. In the novel rugby can also be seen as a metaphor for love. Rugby was his first love they were in a long relationship and through all the highs and lows he stilled loved it until he was dropped from the team. This can be related to his relationship to Nuala through all the highs (when they watched the play) and all the lows (When xavier was embarrassed about being around Nuala because she looks like a guy and people were calling Xavier gay and he didn’t liked to be called

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