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Wild Cat Falling Analysis

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English Good Copy In this society, literature plays a major part in schools around the country and for many generations. Literature has helped create a social norm in today’s society, such as marginalisation of the indigenous Australians. Marginalisation is the treatment of a person group or concept that is seen as insignificant, and this is shown throughout different types of literature that schools provide. Among some of the literature includes the novel of wild cat falling which presents marginalisation as the novels main theme. Wild cat falling was written by Mudrooroo, also known as Colin Thomas Johnson, an Aboriginal novelist who is best known for his work on the novel Wild cat falling. The novel was published in 1965 and tells the story …show more content…

No more than a few days in society he receives social discrimination and a longing sense of not being able to belong anywhere, for he is neither black nor white. Wild cats falling is an important novel for adolescents to study in schools because Johnson’s use of features throughout the novel positions its intended readers to adapt to the intended views regarding marginalisation. The novels use of different features compels the readers to respond both emotionally and critically and encourages readers to look at the issue of marginalisation in today’s society, which is why the novel is included in most schools curriculum. Throughout the novel, Johnson has brilliantly entwined themes of isolation within indigenous families, communities …show more content…

Wildcat suffers from nightmares from his childhood, one of those dreams include wildcat encountering a native who is narrating the traditional dreamtime story of the wildcat. The native states “Keep your cat-crow eyes on the swelling, bright face of the moon. Not down. Not down. But the old earth is pulling you...it is a trick. Have to have wings to reach for the moon.” (Pg. 127) In Wildcats dream, he is trying to reach the moon, which can be turned into the status of the white people, as wildcats is constantly trying to reach the status of the white people but he can never reach his goal, while the earth continues to pull him down, and this can be seen as his heritage as well. The story also mentions a lack of wings; this is seen as his lack of having what he needs to fit in with society, this lack of wings also gives the sense of falling, falling into a pit of true despair and depression. Here, Johnson's opinions on emotional marginalisation are seen quite subtly in a manner that is sophisticated and encourages readers to look at marginalisation in a broader way. Throughout the novel mudrooroo places many flashbacks in wildcats point of view, this is seen as showing how unstable wildcats mind is and how absent his sense of his identity is. The use of these flashbacks compels readers to understand the hurt and confusion isolating an individual can cause. Wildcats use of referring himself in the

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