Deadly Unna Essay

Within the pages of the novel Deadly Unna by Phillip Gwynne we be taken on a voyage to a highly racist and bigoted township. Through the eyes of a young teenage boy, we get step to the fore the world how he does and we experience the division and racism in this corrupt town.In the book, the two races are strongly divided and we can see this clearly in the local bulwark. The forepart bar is for the goonyas and the concealment bar is for the nungas. Nungas are not allowed to be in the front bar with the goonyas, they are not allowed to inebriety with them. Although the division in the bar is not direct racism, it still leaves a large impression on the reader. In the back bar, there is a serving window for the nungas to buy their drinks, there are no seats at the bar like in the front. Back bar or black bar as everybody called it, (page 156). The back bar is called black bar because that is where all the nungas are permitted to be, not up the front like normal people, like an imals at the back.Although the nungas play for the football team, the racial division is even broadcast in the change rooms. The may not have been a rule in place that the nungas got changed at one end of the rooms and the goonyas at the other, it still came out that way. Nungas got changed at one end and us Goonyas at the other. There was no rule or anything it was just the way it was. (Page 21)Even though the town allows nungas to play on their football team, they are still classed as unwelcome in the Port. boongs piss glowering is written on the jetty shed. The word boong is a derogatory term that the aboriginals are referred to. Everywhere you bet boongs piss off, boongs piss off, boongs piss off. Everywhere, (page 257) the crude saying is written everywhere in The Port making it clear that nungas are not welcome in this part of town. The goonyas part of the town. At the end of the novel, Blacky and his siblings, winder over the sign boongs piss off that is on the jetty shed , showing that they are not as racist and narrow minded as the rest of the town, their decision may not be hold with, but they are standing up for what they think is right, proving that nungas should be accepted, not discriminated against.Not only is this town racist, but it is to a fault filled with sexism, majority of the men and teenage boys do not believe that women are their equals. Mr Robertson will not take advice from Gwen Black (Blackys mother) because she is a woman, even if she was a tactical panache. Everybody thought that to be a great coach you had to be a great player. And a bloke, of course, (page 32). Pickles is also sexist, he dislikes Cathy (a camper) squidding with Blacky and himself, he believes that it is a mans job. Girls and squid, according to him didnt go together, (page 181). Blackys beginner is also sexist, he is always down at the pub drinking or going out fishing while his wife Gwen is at home cooking and cleaning for her family.