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"The sunlight is creamy up here. Standing at the roadside with it roasting my back and arms through the heavy shirt."

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"She's got a purple tank top on and every time she lifts an arm there's a blast of BO that could kill a wildebeest. Biggie doesn't seem to notice."

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"Monday morning everyone thinks we're off to work as usual, but in ten minutes we're out past the town limits going like hell. Well, going the way a 1967 Kombi will go. Our get away vehicle is a garden shed on wheels."

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"Christmas comes and so do the dreaded exam results. The news is not good.

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"Christmas comes and so do the dreaded exam results. The news is not good.

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"i get to thinking about the last night of school and the bon-fire at massacre point"
he talks about how 'short grace period when my limbs tingled with relief and the dread of failure has yet to set in'.

"someone had a kite in the air and its tail was on fire, looping and spiralling orange and pink against the night sky, so beautiful I amlost cried."

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- "walking in a shady banana plantation with a girl in a cheesecloth dress."
- "cutting our own pineapples and climbing for coconuts"
- "the longer we drive the more the sky and the bush open up"
- "the sickly-looking regrowth is so rain parched it almost crackles when you look at it"

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"When Perth comes into view, its dun plain shimmering with heat and distant towers ablaze with midday sun, we get nervous and giggly, like a pair of tipsy netballers. The big city."

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"We're saving for a car, the V-8 Sandman we've been promising ourselves since we were four-teen"

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"Until now we've had a biscuit tin full of twos and fivers but now we are making real money."

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"In the hot northern dusk, the world suddenly gets big around us, so big we just give in and watch."

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"In a year Biggie will be dead in a mining accident in the Pilbara and I'll be reading Robert Louis Stevenson at his funeral while his relatives shuffle and mutter with contempt."

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Evidence for this point talking about superiority in character relationships "Meg is thick as a box of hammers." – intertwines humours into his reading.

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"I made him look brighter than he was and me a little dimmer"

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"Mum thinks Biggie's an oaf, that he's holding me back. She doesn't know that without Biggie there'd be nothing left of me to hold back. It sounds weak, but he saved me.

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"Some days I can see me and Biggie out there as old codgers, anchored to the friggin place, stuck forever. Our time at the meatworks is supposed to be temporary.

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the relationship dynamics between the main character and Biggie are reflected in that of Biggie and Meg. while the main character enjoys being superior to Biggie, he doesn't realise how much he is disgusted by it once biggie enjoys being superior (intellectually) to Meg. this disgusted the main character and made him reflect on himself. this was also the beginning of his eventual separation from Biggie.

"But something else, the thing eats at me, is the way he's enjoying being brighter than her, being a step ahead, feeling somehow senior and secure in himself. it's me all over. it's how I am with him and it's not pretty".

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Liminal imagery is used to construct both the sprawling landscape of Australia alongside the sombre tone across the story.

Liminal Imagery is:
Imagery which captures transitional states (which blurs the boundaries between two extremes). In this case; the blurring between oppressive vs freeing nature of the environment.

"Week after week an endless misting drizzle wafts in from the sea."

"The southern sky presses down and the beaches and bays turn the colour of dirty tin."

"When Perth comes into view, its dun plain shimmering with heat and distant towers ablaze with midday sun."

" We come upon a maze of salt lakes that blaze silver and pearly in the sun and stretch to the horizon in every direction."

"I begin to have the panicky feeling that this land and this very afternoon might go on forever."

"The sun flattens itself against the salt-pan and disappears... there's just this huge silence. It's like the world's stopped"

"In the hot northern dusk around us, the world suddenly gets big around us, so big we just give in and watch."

Through the use of liminal imagery, the environment is constructed as both oppressive and freeing, revealing the contrasting outlooks the narrator has towards leaving his home in search of a better life. The expansive environment constructed through setting creates discomfort as both the narrator and the audience realise their insignificance in face of the "Big World" around them.

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"After five years of high school the final November arrives and leaves as suddenly as a spring storm. Exams. Graduation. Huge beach parties."

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"Some how our crappy Saturday jobs at the meat works becomes full-time and then Christmas comes and so do the dreaded exams results"

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Quotes related to boredom and bleakness  

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Quotes related to boredom and bleakness  

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Quotes used in the turning:
- "week after week an endless misting drizzle wafts in from the sea."
- "Christmas comes and so do the dreaded exam results."
- "some days I can see me and Biggie out there as old codgers, anchored to the friggin' place, stuck forever."

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"It'd be like having your nose rubbed in it. Failure,that is... When the results came I cried my eye out."