Here's the inventory of the 3 most important things you noticed in True History of the Kelly Gang after the first 2 reading assignments. If more than one group identified something as important I noted that in parentheses.
How has your sense of the novel and what's important changed as you've read more?
- limited punctuation (another group said lack of punctuation)
- confusing grammar and unclear diction
- birth of Grace (x2)
- Ned saves boy from drowning (x3)
- green sash
- hero: Ned Kelly (x2)
- cowardice
- Ned beats up Patchy Moran and no one messes with him any more (x2; the other group also noted "Irish temper")
- Aborigines
- secret of Red Kelly's trunk (x3; another group said "secrets" without specifying the trunk)
- father and the past (another group called it Daddy issues)
- criminality of the dad
- police and prisons (x2)
- bad police: Sgt. O'Neill
- authority/police: father's paranoia
- tension caused by separation between people and police: O'Neill's relationship with the Kelly family
- poverty (x5) (other groups noted bare feet; money; large, poor Kelly family; economic status: no money or education which affects the whole novel including the poor grammar; wealth disparity)
- property issues, lack of property
- class struggles
- discrimination against Irish: accusations/taunting
- prejudice/oppression
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