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The Burnt stick is a novel about inequality

This is an essay demonstrates a strong agreement that the burnt stick is a novel about inequality. Since from the eighteenth to the twentieth there were a lot of clues in this novel shows inequality between white and aboriginal. Protagonist John, the light skinned aboriginal kid from the novel had been taken away from his family by the government in a really early age, send the campus around Australia to learn white people’s things with the big father in Pearl Bay, during the process was really heartbreaking to John, but the majority ignored his feelings, because they don’t have the same skin colour. This tragic experience makes him come back to his hometown after he turn be an adult, but there was no one still exist. By analysing the three points show from each paragraph, this essay will contend that the inequality shows in this novel.

The stolen generation is a scenario carry out by the Australian government to separate most aboriginal people’s families. The government was enforced take the light skinned aboriginal kids away from their guardians to learn the white people’s culture in the campus around the country and then send them back to their hometown and prohibit them join the white people’s society after they turn be an adult. The …show more content…

When the big man was dragging John set in the police truck, his mother was chasing behind, try to stop the police truck and get his son back. But the consequence was the big man ignored her and she saw the police truck drive away with her son. Moreover, in the police truck the big man said to Miss Grainger ‘It’s hard, but she will soon get over it. They are not like us.’ This can clearly make people sense the discrimination. Accordingly, it is another part of racism factor that represent the injustice base on the person’s skin colour and family

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