LYLE – ANTONI
WILLIAM- HARRY
JULIA-SOPHIA
JAMES-NUGGET
MAUREEN-DESI
DIBS-BELLA
FARLEY-JASPER
GIRLIE-TORI
FELIX-CHRIS
ASHLEIGH/BRIANNA
HOMEWORK: CHARACTER POSTER (DUE MONDAY)
- A4 COLOUR “ATTRACTIVELY PRESENTED FOR DISPLAY ON WALLS”
- QUICK CHARACTER PROFILE
- SOME VOCABULARY
- IMPORTANT QUOTES (EITHER ABOUT CHARACTER OR SAID BY CHARACTER)
Notes on characters from today’s class…
Norm
Dibs’ and Girlie’s father (son of Jessie Allan)
Committed suicide because depression ‘black dog’
Duty/freedom
-concept of inheritance (original heir)
-memory/context
Dibs
-Owns ‘Allandale’
-married to Farley
-wants farm kept in family
-Christian
-feels guilty about the way William was treated
-brought Nugget up as a son but doesn’t feel a true maternal emotional connection/bond (she does not consider Nugget family)
Good-wants A in the family
Bad-treatment of Nugget
Girlie
-Wants Lyle to inherit Allandale
-married to Lucky Joe
-prejudiced
-wants to keep A in the family
-feels mistreated by her own inheritance (10,00 pounds for the Pub in Rushton)
-polio
GOOD
Lyle
-son of Girlie
-wary and suspicious of education
-wants to farm Allandale
out dated/old fashioned, not very successful running his own farm
-sees Nugget as a threat (to his livelihood, his inheritance and his farming ideas…his future)
-share-farming
-racist
-drinks
-depression
-violent
-loves pigeons
-hard done by (does the work but doesn’t get the rewards)
-parallels Norm/ similarities
BAD
Farley
Married to Dibs
Losing mind
Dies
His name on the title
Leaves farm to Nugget
Mentors/champions Nugget
Nugget is his biological son
Ashamed of gay son, William
Bad father (did not publicly acknowledge Nugget as his son)
Very strained/harsh relationship with William
Betrayed his wife
Was in the air force
Stubborn
Good farmer
GOOD – wants to leave farm to Nugget
BAD doesn’t share the farm with other children
Lucky Joe
Girlie’s husband
Likeable character
Catholic
Wanted the pub in Rushton
Dead
Father of Lyle
-context, link to Girlie and Dibs past, highlights financial settlement in the past (some sort of transaction)
GOOD
Ashleigh
16 yo
daughter of Maureen and Lyle
reflect young Girlie and Dibs
prejudiced/racist
no real sense of connection
NEUTRAL/BAD
Brianna
15 yo
daughter of Maureen and Lyle
reflect young Girlie and Dibs
Goes with Lyle and the pigeons
Not racist/unprejudiced
Connection with the land
GOOD
Maureen
Wife of Lyle
Racist
Greedy
Intolerant
Believes farm should be Lyle’s
Critical of Lyle
Politician
Against Nugget
Against Aboriginal entitlement
Works lots of hours in shop in Swan Hill
Inherits the farm and sells it to fund political campaign
BAD-doesn’t want Nugget or Julia or William to get the farm. Wants the farm for Lyle.
Nugget
Half aboriginal
Told his Mother died in car accident
Adopted by Farley (real father) and Dibs
Hard worker
Good farmer
Wants the farm
Educated at Longerenong Agricultural College
Farley changed his will to leave A to Nugget
He did not inherit A
He ends up in Melbourne with Julia and Felix
GOOD
William
Tormented by Farley
Deceitful about selling the farm for a vineyard
Gay
Partner: Kevin
Restaurateur
Manipulative
Being manipulated by Kevin
BAD self seeking interests
Felix
Son of Julia
Educated (Cyber Societies)
Lives above Cosmic Kebab in Brunswick St.
Feels out of place on the farm
Doesn’t like the country
Doesn’t want to go to Allandale
No indication that he wants the farm or has any connection whatsoever with it.
NEUTRAL doesn’t want A
Julia
Divorced
Pregnant to an Indian man she works with
Unprejudiced
Mother of Felix, daughter of Dibs
Wants A so she can have a herb farm
Doesn’t finish what she starts
Wants to leave city and return to A
A tenuous connection with the land
GOOD doesn’t want to sell A, but has self-interest at heart