Fish and Chips Break Down

Question 1

Language

Answer 1

colloquial, conversational, stream of consciousness (language device)

Question 2

Point of View

Answer 2

1st Person

Question 3

Dominant and subordinate discourse

Answer 3

Refers to relationship between whites and blacks

Question 4

Context of time (Australia in 1980s):

Answer 4

Eddie Mabo fight for land rights, reconciliation movement

Question 5

Issues and Ideas:

Answer 5

• Police brutality
• Aboriginal health and education, gap between white society and Aboriginals
• Domestic violence
• White belief in inferiority of Indigenous people, Aboriginals desire to be white

Question 6

Quotes:

Answer 6

‘ We have a bath every night, but we never get any whiter.’,

‘No matter what we do to become like whites, we’re still black.’,

‘I was only ten… and I saw my first dead man.’,

‘A policeman took him into a back alley to belt him around.’,

‘There’s aways a Whitty on the run, it’s just how life goes.’,

‘He got a bad chest from those colds we’re always getting.’