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Transcript: Kill To Eat By Oodgeroo Noonaccul Oodgeroo Noonaccal Born 1920 Died 1993 Poet and poilitition Grew up on stradbroke island Authors Backround Australia Setting In the story Kill To Eat, we are shown that it is set in Australia becuase of some things said in the story, such as "bandicoots", "gum tree", "blueys and greenies" and "kookaburra. We are also told that the story is set on an undeveloped island as the story says, "Which helped build roads, load and unload supply ships, and carry out all of the menial tasks around the island." The narrator POV As this story could possibly be based on true events, the story is seen from how the narrator remembers the events from when she was younger. As the story is seen from 1st person it gived the reader/veiwer a better understanding of what the narrator went through and could spread the some of the emotions she felt. This is so we can know what exactly she remembers she went through. Themes Themes The Main theme/idea of the story is about taking responsibility for what you have done or the people around you have done. This has been shown in the story by how all of the children that went out hunting that day were punished and must "all take the blame". They were all punished by "3 months of eating only the white mens hated rations." Australian Language The language in the story Kill To Eat is easily recognied as Australian, we can see this by looking at words like, "blueys and the greenies" or even words like "kookaburra", "Aboriginals", "bandicoot" and "gum tree". Language Protagonist & Antagonist Characters The protagonist is the young girl who narrates the story. We are told this by the last line of the story which states, "It happened a long time ago. Yet in my dreams, the sad, suffering eyes of the kookaburra, our friend, our brother, still haunt me". The antagonist is the narrators brother. This is shown by the brother "always boasting about it" and "in anger my elder brother shot aimlessly at the sound", and he had shot the kookaburra.
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