Language Features, Symbols, and Motifs (VCE SSCE English): Flashcards

Alternating languages to challenge monolingual settler norms

Resists assimilationist pressures

Animates Country as living protagonist, not passive backdrop

Memory carrier; sovereignty (1850s) to dispossession (2024)

Precarious balance of living on stolen Country

Epistemological clash; who has authority to name truth

Modern stockade restraining Eddie, echoing 1850s jails

Shallow indigeneity vs deeper Country-based knowing

Establishes Eddie's narrative authority and reliability

Creates irony exposing dispossession's continuum