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Carey reads the opening and talks about the inspiration for the novel, including discussion of the rescue of Dick Shelton and the green sash.

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Imagining Ned Kelly: Interview with Peter Carey

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In this interview, Peter Carey discusses the inspiration for his novel True History of the Kelly Gang, from an early encounter with the Jerilderie letter to an encounter with a less-familiar Kelly relic in rural Victoria.

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1. Ned's first memory  - the prison and the cake.

2. Sergeant O'Neill harassing the Kelly family.

3. Ned's description of the aboriginal stockmen.

4. The discovery of his father's dress.

5. The killing of Murray's heifer calf.

6. His father's arrest.

7. The birth of Grace.

8. The rescue of Dick Shelton and the reward of the green sash.

9. Ned's father released from prison and subsequent death.

Key question: How do authors choose which events to include from their characters' lives, and how to present and order these?

Take the events and create a flow chart that either:
a)Shows how the sequence of events affects our perception of Ned.
b) Shows how the sequence of events affects our perception of Ned's world.

Include at least one quotation with each event. Post your flowchart as an attachment below.

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"Undated, unsigned, handwritten account in the collection of the Melbourne Public Library (V.L. 10453)

Why does Carey start the novel with this third person account of the shoot-out?

What aspects of style are worth noting in the way this is written?

Why does he present it as a "historical document"?  What does this mean?  Analyse and interpret the description he gives at the end of this supposed document.

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THE FINAL CHAPTER OF the infamous Kelly Gang began on 27 June 1880, when, after eluding the police for almost two years, their luck ran out in the small town of Glenrowan, Victoria. The Gang consisted of Ned Kelly, his brother Dan, Joseph Byrne and Steve Hart, and they had been on the run from the police after a number of incidents.

Prior to the Glenrown Dan and Joe had shot a police informant named Aaron Smith. A few days later, after a sizable police hunt, the desperate bushrangers held up the local railway station and then took 60 of the townspeople hostage at the Glenrowan Inn.

The hostages included the owner of the inn Ann Jones, her children, and other members of the town. Among them were about 20 Kelly sympathisers.

With police surrounding the building the Kelly Gang began firing, wearing armour made out of plough parts that Ned had been constructed in the aftermath of a three-day bank robbery. Joseph Byrne was soon shot in the groin and died of his wounds, while the other three continued to fight well into the night.

During a lull in the fighting, Dan Kelly and the police struck a bargain and the hostages were able to make their way to safety. With only the gang members left inside, the police then set fire to the building. When the smoke finally cleared the burnt bodies of Steve Hart and Dan were found in a back room.

The next morning Ned Kelly emerged from nearby bush behind the police blockade, injured but alive, after retreating there sometime during the night. As he walked out shooting his revolver, policemen aimed low at his legs, which were unprotected. And so, in a hail of bullets, Ned Kelly was finally captured.

History of the Kelly Gang

Ned had grown up in the town of Beveridge, roughly 50km north of Melbourne. Despite being known locally as a hero after saving seven-year-old Dick Shelton from drowning when he was 10, in later life he was known as something of a ruffian. By October 1878 Ned, who was on the run from assault charges, had teamed up with his younger brother Dan, and friends Joseph Byrne and Steve Hart to form the Kelly Gang.

In late 1878, after numerous smaller run-ins with police, things had come to a head near Stringybark Creek when an attempt to corner and apprehend the gang had ended in the death of three police officers (Sergeant Michael Kennedy, and Constables Michael Scanlon and Thomas Lonigan).

While hiding out in the bush, they went on to commit two major bank robberies at Euroa (Vic) and Jerilderie (NSW).

The almost two years later, on 25 June 1880, gang members Dan and Joe went to the valley where Aaron Sherritt, a friend possibly turned police informant, had a small farm. Reportedly, Dan and Joe had captured Anton Weekes, a neighbour, in order to lure Aaron outside.

When Aaron opened his door, Joe Byrne shot him point-blank in the chest in front of his wife and mother-in-law, whom they allowed to leave. The gang then held four police officers assigned to protect Aaron captive in the house for 12 hours before they stole back into the bush.

Siege of the Glenrowan Inn

After a lengthy hunt through bushlands roughly 200km north-east of Melbourne, the police finally cornered the gang at the Glenrowan Inn. Volleys of shots rang out from both sides. After the smoke and gunshots died down it became clear that a total of nine people had been killed during the siege (three gang members, three police, two bystanders and an informer). Another five were injured.

After his capture Ned Kelly was tried and eventually hanged for his crimes, on 11 November 1880 at Old Melbourne Gaol. He was only 25 years old. The owner of the Glenrowan Inn, Ann Jones, reportedly wanted to sue the government for £1050 as a result of the police burning down her inn during the siege (she only received £265, barely enough to cover the legal costs). Her 11-year-old son Jack was also accidentally shot by police during siege and later died in hospital.

The Kelly Gang legend

Ever since Kelly's arrest there has been debate about his true nature. Today Dr Amanda Kaladelfos, a history researcher at Griffith University, compares him to Robin Hood. "Kelly articulated a struggle between rich and poor that resonated with many at a time when the Victorian government's land policies disadvantaged small farmers," Amanda says. Their actions are thought to have contributed to the "rise of the Australian labour tradition", she adds.

According to Peter Norden, a history expert from RMIT University, Kelly "was a symbol of those early Australians who defied the authority of the Protestant English establishment".

To the poor and disenfranchised underclass, the Kelly Gang seemed to be shrugging off the shackles of the day's social structure.

However, Peter acknowledges many are sceptical. Who "would see it as justice that his victims - police officers Michael Scanlan, Michael Kennedy and Thomas Lonigan - have prominent tombstones and a large memorial in the Victorian mountain town of Mansfield, while Kelly lies in an unmarked grave," he says.

The Kelly Gang's story still serves as a major tourist draw to Glenrowan. While none of the original buildings from the famous shootout remain, there are signs and plaques that indicate the site of the original Glenrowan Inn and the location where Ned Kelly was finally captured by police.

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On this day: The Kelly Gang's last stand

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THE FINAL CHAPTER OF the infamous Kelly Gang began on 27 June 1880, when, after eluding the police for almost two years, their luck ran out in the small town of Glenrowan, Victoria. The Gang consisted of Ned Kelly, his brother Dan, Joseph Byrne and Steve Hart, and they had been on the run from the police after a number of incidents.

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Ned Kelly masked and unmasked: creature, beast, machine, man.

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Ned Kelly masked and unmasked: creature, beast, machine, man.

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The book starts with the most iconic image of Kelly  - in his armour  - although this is underpinned by the alienating effect created by some of the language used to describe him: he is a "creature",  "nothing human",  described using the pronoun "it", with a "headless neck" that moves "slowly and mechanically around."
However, Carey also uses this passage to literally and metaphorically "unmask" Kelly, now described as a "fallen man", though still dehumanised as a "wild beast brought to bay."
This "unmasking" prefigures, and is symbolic of, what Carey is about to do in the novel with his first person narrative: "unmask" the "legend" of Ned Kelly.

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Ned Kelly's Armour by Thomas Carrington 1880

The Bunyip

Constable Arthur was lighting his pipe when he heard something behind him. He turned and the sight so surprised him that the pipe dropped from his mouth. Advancing through the timber from the Lookout was a figure in grey cotton coat reaching past the knees. Most extraordinary of all was the head. Arthur goggled for several seconds before he concluded that some madman had conceived the notion of storming the hotel with a nailcan on his head. "Go back, you damn fool; you'll get shot," he shouted. The apparition, no more than thirty metres off, replied, "I could shoot you, sonny." No sooner said than he lifted a revolver, placed it across his forearm and fired. The bullet went wide. Someone pointed to the figure and shouted, "Look at this!" With big head and shoulders looming through the mists of dawn it looked like a huge blackfellow wrapped in a blanket. "Challenge him, and if he doesn't answer, shoot!" cried Senior Constable Kelly.

'Ned Kelly at bay' as drawn by Thomas Carrington. Watching from more than 100 metres away, Carrington was unaware that the oilskin coat was actually draped over Ned's shoulders like a cloak. Other authentic details like the helmet, 'strapped' riding pants and spurred riding boots were sketched after Ned's capture. Image: Max Brown

Arthur lifted his Martini and fired at the helmet, thinking to knock it off. The figure no more than staggered and continued to come, deliberately advancing one foot after the other with a macabre lurching motion and edging towards the rear of the inn. An opening in the helmet looked like a large mouth. Arthur fired a second shot. The figure staggered again but still came on. He fired again and heard the bullet spin off. Amazed cries came from the troopers. Someone shouted, "It's a ghost!" Dowsett exclaimed, "It's old Nick himself!" Senior Constable Kelly cried, "Look out, boys, it's the bunyip. He's bullet-proof!"

Ned had been lying on the rising ground in sight of the inn, bleeding in his cold mountain of iron and barely conscious, with who knows what thoughts, what bitterness racking him. Earlier, he had been near the tree where Arthur had found the revolving rifle and had refrained from shooting Steele in the back. At that point Tom Lloyd had found him and helped him to adjust his armour. Now, feeling somewhat revived, he was out to rally the other two. He rapped on his breastplate with his revolver butt, and Dan and Steve came to the rear and commenced firing. "Come out, boys, and we'll whip the lot of them," he cried, his voice echoing from behind the vizor.

The police poured bullets at him. Arthur fired, Phillips fired, Healy discharged both barrels of his shotgun. A chorus of shots broke out over the ground; those who could not see the outlaw fired into the inn from which the screams of woman and children broke out afresh. In spite of wounds in his foot, arm and right hand, Ned continued to advance, bearing the great weight of iron, staggering under the impact of the hits and firing deliberately but inaccurately at the inner ring of his attackers. He was laughing; at last he was discharging the terrible debt that had been accumulating since childhood.

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Constable Arthur was lighting his pipe when he heard something behind him. He turned and the sight so surprised him that the pipe dropped from his mouth. Advancing through the timber from the Lookout was a figure in grey cotton coat reaching past the knees. Most extraordinary of all was the head.

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"I am the b----y Monitor, my boys."

"You shoot children, you f-----g dogs.  You can't shoot me."  (p. 3)

Comment on the snatches of Kelly's voice we hear in this extract.  Why does Carey include these moments of dialogue?

How do they prepare us for/compare with the voice that dominates the rest of the novel?

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Our perception of Ned's world through Parcel 1 

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Our perception of Ned's world through Parcel 1 

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https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B_cFipeLgIHxTGkwNEZfNVc3b1U

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The effects that moments in Parcel one have one how the readers view Ned

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The effects that moments in Parcel one have one how the readers view Ned

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https://drive.google.com/a/gapps.uwcsea.edu.sg/file/d/0B8RCiANTdv2MVkJlb2xsV2xkelk/view?usp=sharing

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How do the key moments in Parcel One shape our perception of the world around Ned?

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How do the key moments in Parcel One shape our perception of the world around Ned?

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Here is our flowchart.

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https://docs.google.com/a/gapps.uwcsea.edu.sg/document/d/1GsLAkVWg414ryJ01BV95B8-16y0Udcnu0MpHB7HDU2w/edit?usp=drive_web

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1. Kelly’s quarrel with Frost when he first returns home

2. Frost leaving Ellen Kelly

3. Ned and Power meet to find Frost

4. The finding of Frost naked in a room with another lady

5. Kelly shoots Frost in the gut, Power claims Frost bled to death

6. The robbery of R.R McBean’s heirloom watch

7. The return of Bill Frost

8. Harry Power’s betrayal to Ned Kelly

9. Kelly steals Power’s horse

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Culprit or victim: How does Carey simultaneously portray Kelly as both through the sequence of events in this parcel?

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1. Kelly's family moving to Greta
2. Introduction of Uncle James
3. The burning of the house
4. Ned's description of his mum after he's reunited with her after the fire (Oedipus complex)
5. Harry Power escaping from prison
6. Mrs Kelly 's selection of land at Eleven Mile Creek
7. Unflattering portraits of Anne Kelly

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1. Annie and Alex's Wedding
2. Harry Power's Introduction
3. 'Adventures' with Harry Powers
4. Assault of Ah Fook
5. Ned's interaction with the Handsome Man and their subsequent Fight
6. Ned's return and sighting of the Banshee
7. Ah Fook's return
8. Ned's arrest

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Was Ned's apprenticeship the solidification of his future as a bushranger?

To what extent were Ned's circumstances a product of his choices? To what extent were his choices the product of his circumstance?

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Discussion: What significance does the Banshee hold in the story?

Background: A banshee is a female spirit in Irish mythology who heralds the death of a family member, usually by shrieking or keening.

"When our brave parents was ripped from Ireland like teeth from the mouth of their own history and every dear familiar thing had been abandoned on the docks of Cork or Galway or Dublin then the Banshee come on board the cursed convict ships […] and there were not an English eye could see her no more than an English eye can picture the fire that will descend upon that race in time to come."

Was the Banshee a foreshadowing of Kelly's descent into criminality and an indicator of the corruption of his character, as opposed to being the traditionally accepted symbol of death in Irish mythology?

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Introduction of Uncle James
"Well boys i am your Uncle James and I am hot and thirsty and my horse is in the pound in Beechworth" (Pg 48)

The burning of the house:
" In my dream I were in Hell with endless heat and chocking even walking I could not escape the terrors"

Ned's description of his mum after he's reunited with her after the fire

"I were here reunited with my mother as she descended from the Wangaratta Coach she wore a bright blue silk dress and a bustle and a mighty hat that towered above her head. I were most surprised to see how prosperous she looked"

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How do the ways Ned's family are portrayed bring us closer to him?

To what extent does culture play a role in our understanding of Ned's family and his interactions with them?

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1)   Ned getting circled and intimidated by Uncle Jim and Pat during the construction of the split-rail fence.

2)   The fight that Ned initiates between himself, Uncle Jim, Uncle Pat, and eventually Constables Hall and Archdeacon.

3)   Sentencing of Pat Quinn to 3 years in Pentridge Gaol.

4)   The arrival of Ben Gould at the Kelly household.

5)   Ned Kelly’s assault of Mr McCormick and consequential arrest

6)   Ned’s release from Beechworth jail

7)   Kelly’s second arrests, due to being accused of stealing back his own horse.

8)   Ned featured in the Gazette and sentenced to 3 years of hard labour.

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How and why does Carey present the idea of loyalty throughout the story?
How and why do moments of violence affect the way the that readers perceive ned?

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1) Ned returns to home
2) Ned arrested by Sergeant Whelan and imprisoned at Benalla
3) Supt Nicolson and Hare interrogate Ned on crimes committed with Harry Power
4) Hare and Nicolson question Ellen Kelly offer her £500.
5) Ned meets the Commissioner and plays "billiards" (A fist fight for freedom). Ned wins but is returned to his jail cell.
6) Ned befriends John Fitzpatrick who tells them Jack Lloyd is going to betray Power.
7) Ned released from prison and when he returns home is accused snitching on Power.

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How does Carey installed the theme of loyalty in Parcel 5?
How does Carey portray Ned to the audience in Parcel 5?

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1) Ned's mother is coming to grips with being a widow, struggling to do the "handy" work around the house

2) A stranger, who we later find out is a rat charmer, approaches Ellen and offers to exchange his services for drink (brandy), Ellen takes offence and states there are no rats in her house and the rat charmer plagues her house

3) Neds young sister (14 months old) dies of the plague and his younger brother gets "the headache," siblings are sent to find the charmer

4) Neds fight with Steve Hart leading to his fight with Wild Wright

5) Mother feeds George Kings new baby

6) Horse chase of Dans Mate

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1) What is the cultural significance of the rat charmer? and furthermore is there any relation to the symbol of the banshee we saw earlier on?

2) Why does Ned make an assumption that the person (guy) in a dress on the horse is his mother?

3) Why do you think his mom being present at his fight with Wild Wright was significant for Ned ?

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1) Subsequent to Ned's mother shooting Fitzpatrick she tells Ned and Dan to flee.
2) Ned's mother is arrested and sentences to 3 years for Aiding and abetting attempted murder on Fitzpatrick.
3) Fitzpatrick threatens Mary with her lack of money in passbook to support her child to try persuade her to help to find Ned.
4) Mary takes her baby and flees to Aunt Kate's house.
5) Dan, Ned, Joe, and Steve tracked where the police where (by their large bon fire) and took camp.
6) All 4 boys spy on Cons Flood at the fire and invade them to get their weapons - Ned resulted in shooting Tom Lonigan, who he thought was actually Cons Strahan because he tried to shoot them.
7) All 4 boys waited untill the two other policeman returned to the fire and were surrounded. Scanlon (the police man) was shot and Dan took his 'spencer' (the gun they wanted).
8) Sgt Kennedy went after Ned, Ned called out he would not hurt him but shot him in the armpit in what he thought was self defence, but really Kennedy was trying to surrender.
9) Ned made Kennedy as comfortable as possible and Kennedy wrote his last words to his wife with a pen and paper Ned gave him.
10) Dan revealed he had a wound from Cons Scanlon, as time progressed he began to look worse.
11) To get to the location they needed they had to cross a river. The river's current was strong and Ned's copy of Lorna Doone and the letter written by Kennedy were ruined.
12) The boys take cover in a cave.
13) Joe and Bessie Sheritt (aaron's sister are talking). She is persuading him to leave saying he did not kill anyone and his name is not being hunted.
14) Joe embarked on a trip to America but failed and returned.
15) Police invaded where Mary and her baby, when John king, ellen king and grace kelly all come to hide beneath the bed.
15) Brooke Smith shouted at Mary, asking where Ned was, claiming that he was in hiding with her. He took her baby, throwing him up and down and mary cursed at him in anger. - This is the moment george (her baby's) eyes changed color.
16) The 4 boys embarked on a journey to Wangaratta but a women recognised them so they were in a hurry. They reached hiding and were protected.

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Ned sees Dan from the veranda of the O’Brien’s Hotel on a horse in a mob as a mascot

Dan challenges Ned to a fight

Ned confronts Dan, who he realizes is drunk

Ned approaches the police to try and negotiate pressing charges against Dan

Dan is declared innocent in court

Dan and Ned go to the Moyhu races

In Oxley Constable Flood threatens Dan

Ned leaves his job at the sawmill and goes with Dan to Four Mile Creek

Ned and Dan visit their mother

Steve Hart comes to 11 Mile Creek

Dan and Steve leave 11 Mile Creek together

They return wearing dresses and have their faces blackened

Ned orders Dan to take the dress off, who says they came from Mrs Goodman

Ned hurts Steve and orders him to leave

Ned goes to visit Mrs Goodman to return the dresses, and Fitzpatrick appears at the door

Ned complies to Fitzpatrick to prevent him from pressing charges against Dan and leaves with him

Ned and Fitz arrive at a house where there are 2 girls, and one of them is Mary

Ned dances with Mary

Mary leads Ned into her room and they sleep together

Ned goes back to Mrs Goodmans to buy a dress

Mary comes around the corner and Ned gives her a present

She leads him into her house and they sleep together again

Ned heard gunshots and sees Steve firing the gun

John O'Reilly is there, who demanded his compensation money

Ellen does not like Mary, which Ned realizes is because Mary had George King’s baby

When ned finds this out he is extremely enraged

Ned gets his revenge on Fitzpatrick

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Loyalty:
- In reference to Ned's Mother:
"All my life I had stood by her"
- Mary about Ned
"O God have pity cried mary they cannot force me to betray him"
- Ned about people hiding them
"We slept protected by them whose names I cannot say"

Ned's protection for Dan:
"I told him that while Joe were leaving us it were safer for him to stay by me”
"I said I was sorry but dan cried out Lonigan had asked for it"
"You touch him I said I'll fire"

Ned's feelings towards the crime:
"The rain began sprinkling on the dry earth I wished it could wash away my sin"
"All night I had very bad dreams"
"He must pay the full tariff I said we was not thieves"

Mary's Anger towards Police:
"You will be like a blackfellow with no home to turn to"

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1) How does Carey present Ned's relationship with his brother Dan?
2) How might the opposition between Ned killing Kennedy, and his aid towards him in his final moments position the reader?

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1. Mary confronting Ned about the killings.

2. Ned being described in the newspaper.

3. Ned begins writing his letters.

4. Mary's pregnancy.

5. Joe, Steve and Dan's ambush using blackface and dresses as the “Sons Of Sieve”

6. Mary's story of what happened to her father's horse

7. Kelly sends his narrative to the Melbourne newspaper for publication

8. Plan to rob a bank at Euroa

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Ned and his family

“In my confusion I imagined it were my mother unexpectedly made free”

Neds defence for the killings

“I would never kill no one unless I had to”

Neds feelings towards Mary/Loyalty

“All the love in Mary’s eyes were cold as ash in the morning grate I could not leave”

“I am guilty of neglecting both while setting the fire back blazing in the eyes of Mary Hearn”

Neds letter writing/Relationship with his unborn daughter

“Its for him I cried that's why you wished me to write it… or for her”

“So when your daughter comes into the world she will always know the proper story of her da and who he is and what he suffered”

Sons of Sieve

“I’m sure you is nothing worse than a colonial lyre bird copying everything it hears. … I am sure you ain't one of them murdering cruel b-----ds who make Ireland such a Hell on earth.”

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Interview with Peter Carey

Did you invent the Sons of Sieve?

Among social bandits in Ireland, and there were many of them, cross dressing was part of the business and not so much disguised. It goes back into pre-Christian times and has more to do with masks that you put on the days when normal rules of society are to be abandoned. Because when we think about this story habitually we think of it as an Aussie story, and I was interested in what has been maintained from the original Irish. I wanted to strengthen the craft and shape the story with his mother to make it almost Oedipal, so I changed history to make Ned secretly responsible for his father’s death . The advantage of the dress is that when Ned sees this it unmans his father in his eyes. That misunderstanding is one of the causes which leads to that moment when Ned feels he has to become the man of the house.

Questions on the role of gender and sexuality in nationalism: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1hiaYdOMg8CD-ZrV9CHOLBVa3omJRbAIY83S_Agudks4/edit

Mary’s outrage at the Kelly Gang for having copied techniques of Irish agrarian protesters invests her role in the novel with an explicitly political dimension. When Steve Hart and Dan Kelly re-enact the method of Irish agrarian protesters of putting on women’s dresses and blackening their faces, Mary charges them with ignorance and naivety: “I’m sure you is nothing worse than a colonial lyre bird copying everything it hears. […] I am sure you aint one of them murdering cruel b-----ds who make Ireland such a Hell on earth.” Mary questions male heroism in the Irish context. As Carolyn Bliss has argued, “Mary recognizes that the masterplot of the Sons of Sieve cannot be transplanted onto Australian soil. What may once have been political action had been corrupted into sheer viciousness even before being transported to Australia; here it becomes only senseless (not subversive) mimicry.” (Sarah Heinz article: https://breac.nd.edu/articles/c-chulainn-down-under-peter-careys-true-history-of-the-kelly-gang-and-the-ambivalences-of-diasporic-irish-identity-construction-in-australia/ )

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What is discovered about Steve Hart in this chapter? Why is it significant?

How is Dan portrayed in contrast to Ned?

How does Ned react to Fitzpatrick? Why?

What was Mary's secret? How does Ned react to it?

What do his reactions to Fitzpatrick and to Mary's secret reveal about Ned?

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Key events:

News that Kelly’s daughter has been born

Kelly decides that he will need to free the innocent people as well as his mother and the 21 men from prison

Kelly visits a shepherd’s hut up on the Bogong High Plains where the walls were covered with old news papers

Comes across a particular news story; Virginia the southerners where the Southerners, were clad with iron

Begins to organise outfits and the Kelly gang start labour, moulding iron into armour

They make ironclad suits for local farmers and many other men

Composed a coffin letter, manufactured 60 copies to mail to farmers

Key quotes:

1.”my daughter if I make mistakes of grammar now do not think yourself grander than your father…Supt Hare & Detective Ward was always on our heels also those black trackers from Queensland was murderous demons they already butchered many men before they caught the scent of us”

2.”Mary Hearn and Ellen Kelly were still interred inside her sunless cell no matter what vow I took”

3.”Ned kelly were the most fear & famous outlaw int eh colony but I cd. not get my mother an inch closer to her freedom”

4.”I would of give up this very history too but I knew I would lose you if I stopped writing you would vanish and be stalled by the maw”

5. “When I tied the ribbon a great sadness entered like a worm into my heart”

6. “My daughter it were you. You was born. You was in a foreign land but safe at your mother’s breast I roared like a bull my breath burst forth & froze in that clean Australian air”

7. “The police was in all the hills & towns about but the country were not their they had not the least notion of the celebration which now spread like yellow gorse across the hills”

8. “they couldn't afford to leave their cows & pigs but they done so because we was them and they was us and we had showed the world what convict blood could do

9. “No munition could injure him or test his flesh he would be an engine like Great Cuchulzinn in his war chariot”

10. “Them suits was made and awaiting resurrection”

11. “I Wished only to be a citizen I had tried to speak but the mongrels stole my tongue when I asked of justice they gave me none”

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NED WAS 25 years old at the time.
The government had recently lost territory

A lot of support for the Kelly’s in the North East -- they could not be arrested.

Ned was known as the ‘Mansfield Murderer’

The police began arresting people associated to Ned Kelly. Wild Wright had been arrested as well.

Men were taken from the farms (arrested for knowing Kelly) so the Kelly Gang helped agriculturally.

Ned had hoped for €10,000 but only got €2,260 from Euroa. -- Ned gave this to Joe saying he could go wherever he wanted.

Joe took €85 (family) and gave the rest back - loyalty

They had a large remaining sum of money.

Mrs. Kelly was trusted with regards to funds

Ned’s mother was arrested and Ned wanted to break her out by force.

Ned wrote a letter to the police.

According to the Jerilderie Gazette, Ned, Dan, Byrne and Hart had surrounded the police barracks.

Kelly gang locked police in their cells.

Joe threatened the bank teller with a revolver pointed at his face and ordered him to bail up. (Joe said he was Kelly)

They took money from the bank - €1,450

Kelly admits to his daughter that ‘the bank were robbed’ but his main purpose was to print 500 copies of Ned’s letter.

Ned wanted Mr. Gill (editor of newspaper)

They wanted Ned’s letter printed

To make Mr. Lyving type faster, Joe brought Mrs. Gill as a threat.

She promised him to make a copy and publish it.

Gill had not printed his document so Ned said he had to do it.

Gill gave the letter to the police.
Ned was furious and the Kelly Gang left the site.

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‘Now the Kelly Gang become Agricultural Labourers’

‘the government had lost control of an entire slice of territory’

‘We was being fed and hidden by a great army of friends.’

‘When the newspapers wrote Ned Kelly were handsome I took no notice of their puffery’

‘€1975 remained to us.’

‘your mother were 1st and best supporter ahead even of my own brave sisters.’

‘I would never kill them but it were essential they obey’

‘Mrs Gill come through the door when she saw mr. Lyving she sucked in her breath and clucked her tongue’

‘Whether she were deaf or daft I do not know but my name had no effect on her.’

‘Anyone could shoot me, but if a shot was fired, the people of Jerilderie would swim in their own blood.’

‘By then I had my gun agaist her husband’s bony skull he werent going to run off this time.’

‘O have mercy Mr Kelly we give your letter to the police.’

‘Mr Gill now understood there were no shield between himself and punishment’

‘I imagined myself v. calm but Joe later told me the pupils of my eyes had turned unholy red.’

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Key events:At 26 years of ageKelly Gang arrives in Glenrowan and lures the policemen and they the gang gets a many hostages by the constables.Kelly meets his schoolteacher, Thomas Curnow in Glenrowan and takes  him hostage.Kelly takes the copy of Shakespeare’s plays from his teacher who is shocked that he is familiar with his plays.As the conversations proceed, Kelly gets reminded of his favorite book, Lorna Doone. The teacher offers him a help to complete his book of history.That night the Kelly Gang, sings, dances and drink with their hostages and Ned is completely intrigued by the ides of Thomas helping him write his manuscript.THE SIEGE OF GLENROWAN AND THE DEATH OF EDWARD KELLYThomas after promising Ned to complete his manuscript and stops the group of policemen who were lurd by Kelly Gang. He informed them that Kelly Gang is waiting for themThe policemen started firing in the hotel the gang was staying durign which many local men, women,children are killed, Ned is injured.Ned is imprisoned and hanged to death were his last wish to release his mother from the prison.

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Key events:At 26 years of ageKelly Gang arrives in Glenrowan and lures the policemen and they the gang gets a many hostages by the constables.Kelly meets his schoolteacher, Thomas Curnow in Glenrowan and takes  him hostage.Kelly takes the copy of Shakespeare’s plays from his teacher who is shocked that he is familiar with his plays.As the conversations proceed, Kelly gets reminded of his favorite book, Lorna Doone. The teacher offers him a help to complete his book of history.That night the Kelly Gang, sings, dances and drink with their hostages and Ned is completely intrigued by the ides of Thomas helping him write his manuscript.THE SIEGE OF GLENROWAN AND THE DEATH OF EDWARD KELLYThomas after promising Ned to complete his manuscript and stops the group of policemen who were lurd by Kelly Gang. He informed them that Kelly Gang is waiting for themThe policemen started firing in the hotel the gang was staying durign which many local men, women,children are killed, Ned is injured.Ned is imprisoned and hanged to death were his last wish to release his mother from the prison.

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Quotes:“At Domain Road the bare branches of the English Trees made shadows thin as handwriting upon the Commissioner's walls”.“Last night  seen my dear old mother in a dream who knows how such things happen her cell were so clear I could have drawn a map there.”“O i wd recognise you anywhere i I thought you are that prim and superior fellow my mother must stand before in her threadbare dress.”

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Quotes:“At Domain Road the bare branches of the English Trees made shadows thin as handwriting upon the Commissioner's walls”.“Last night  seen my dear old mother in a dream who knows how such things happen her cell were so clear I could have drawn a map there.”“O i wd recognise you anywhere i I thought you are that prim and superior fellow my mother must stand before in her threadbare dress.”

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1 ) He was associated with the Greta Mob
* The town also gave its name to of the ‘Greta mob’ – 30 to 40 ‘flash’ dressing youths who frequented dances and horseraces, liked to show off their horsemanship, draw attention with red sashes and fashionable clothes (including the boots with ‘larrikin heels’ and wearing their chin-strap of their hats under their noses ).

2) http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/art-and-design/first-australian-press-photo-shows-body-of-kelly-gang-member-joe-byrne-20150322-1m3xio.html

3) http://oa.anu.edu.au/obituary/byrne-joseph-joe-13576

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- His father was an ex-policeman.
- He grew up near Beechworth and was childhood friends with Joe Byrne.
- He assisted the police for some months, which led to his eventually death by Joe Byrne.
- He was engaged to Joe's sister; Kate.
(sources:http://oa.anu.edu.au/obituary/sherritt-aaron-13571, https://aguidetoaustralianbushranging.wordpress.com/2017/06/26/the-murder-of-aaron-sherritt/)

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http://oa.anu.edu.au/obituary/curnow-thomas-13573