Sally Morgan

While Sally tries to write the history of her family her Grandmother is quite sure that one cannot pull all truths in a book, therefore Daisy took forward to regain her lost self in the next world and she is optimistic when the special bird calls out. She says, "I'm going home soon. Home to my own land and my own people I got a good spot over there, they all waiting are for me". But Sally is desperate to trace her lost self in contemporary history and would agree with Arthur when she says, "We are talking history". In the twenty second chapter of the novel, Sally confesses to a need when she says "1 desperately wanted to do something to identity with my new found heritage and that was the only thing that I could think of ’. The aborigines were

But Sally Morgan takes the help of family photography to register the semiotics of identity formation and deformation, producing representations of unassimilated and assimilated the primitive and the modern, The "little white lie" told by her mother becomes the basis for Sally Morgan's narrative of aboriginal identity which later, recovered and re evaluated. Sally reconstructs the experience of her childhood and adolescence in suppressed history which functioned both as an enforceable silence and uncanny presence. Her writing it down completes her quest for selfhood as she says, 'I get very angry at injustice, and I thought somebody should put this down, people should know about these things'. Sally Morgan's quest for identity through photographs becomes more touching as one realizes from the narrative that there are many things which the photography conceals. And get the silence in them helps Sally to reconstruct her aboriginal self and inherit her 'otherness' which she was in search

On the one hand, Sally’s feeling of displacement is a result of the colonial past of her family, and on the other hand, it is not possible to deny Sally’s darker skin and her black grandmother any longer. It is the first time Sally is conscious of her family’s darker skin. The importance of these aspects that continuously appear and reappear in Sally’s life is that they are a consequence of her colonial history and prehistory and at the same time they are the factors that trigger her search for this past as an essential part in the rebuilding of her identity. However, it is not strange that Sally experiences this strong connection with the past. Thus, Sally reclaims her past, her place in history as a colonised individual. She does it not only for herself but also for her family and her children. It is in the past that she loses her place and it is just in the past that she has to start to recuperate