Summer of the Seventeenth Doll Themes Analysis - Bush vs City by Melanie Rule https://padlet.com/mel_rule76/ch11nzeuovqn Made with joy en-us 2019-09-16 23:38:41 UTC 2019-10-21 08:27:28 UTC hello@padlet.com Bush vs City https://padlet.com/mel_rule76/ch11nzeuovqn/wish/385004450 2019-09-17 00:03:50 UTC https://padlet.com/mel_rule76/ch11nzeuovqn/wish/385004450 talking about the different perspectives from olive and Roo https://padlet.com/mel_rule76/ch11nzeuovqn/wish/385007510 2019-09-17 00:19:05 UTC https://padlet.com/mel_rule76/ch11nzeuovqn/wish/385007510 the 'gang of boys' working in the north vs men who work in the city s105281 https://padlet.com/mel_rule76/ch11nzeuovqn/wish/385009409 2019-09-17 00:26:52 UTC https://padlet.com/mel_rule76/ch11nzeuovqn/wish/385009409 OLIVE: You think I'll let it all end up in marriage --- every day --- a paint factory --- you think I'll marry you? s105281 https://padlet.com/mel_rule76/ch11nzeuovqn/wish/385012915 p(92&93) ]]> 2019-09-17 00:40:21 UTC https://padlet.com/mel_rule76/ch11nzeuovqn/wish/385012915 OLIVE: I won't let you. I'll kill you first s105281 https://padlet.com/mel_rule76/ch11nzeuovqn/wish/385013751 ROO: [lashing at her, hurting himself at the same time] Kill me, then. But there's no more flyin' down out of the sun --- no more eagles. [going down on one knee beside her and striking the floor with his hand] This is the dust we're gunna walk through it like everyone else for the rest of our lives!
p(93)]]> 2019-09-17 00:43:49 UTC https://padlet.com/mel_rule76/ch11nzeuovqn/wish/385013751 Roo and Barney work as sugarcane cutters in the bush seven months out of the year and spend their five non-working months (the "layoff season") which is considered more 'manly' than working in the city s105281 https://padlet.com/mel_rule76/ch11nzeuovqn/wish/386285043 2019-09-18 23:20:14 UTC https://padlet.com/mel_rule76/ch11nzeuovqn/wish/386285043 For Barney, Roo, and Olive, cane cutting—backbreaking manual labor in the Australian bush—is an undeniably masculine job that allows for a freeform, untethered lifestyle. s105281 https://padlet.com/mel_rule76/ch11nzeuovqn/wish/386287864 2019-09-18 23:32:44 UTC https://padlet.com/mel_rule76/ch11nzeuovqn/wish/386287864 when it comes to light that Roo walked off the job after being humiliated by the physical limitations of his age and then needs get a job in the city to support himself, the characters grapple with their biases about gender and work. Despite being confronted with the downsides of clinging tightly to their preconceived gender roles, they struggle to create new definitions, which shows how entrenched their biases about gender are. s105281 https://padlet.com/mel_rule76/ch11nzeuovqn/wish/386288014 2019-09-18 23:33:26 UTC https://padlet.com/mel_rule76/ch11nzeuovqn/wish/386288014 Barney, Roo, and Johnnie perform backbreaking manual labor for the seven months they work cutting sugarcane, and then for the five months of the layoff season they get to enjoy the fruits of their labor in the city with beautiful women. s105281 https://padlet.com/mel_rule76/ch11nzeuovqn/wish/386289197 2019-09-18 23:38:44 UTC https://padlet.com/mel_rule76/ch11nzeuovqn/wish/386289197 Barney are "real men" suggests that she defines masculinity in terms of how and where men work. She quotes Nancy and explains that the men who live in the city are "soft city blokes," and in comparison to Roo and Barney, they look like "a bunch of skinned rabbits." This shows that location itself is gendered: the bush is masculine, while the city is feminine. s105281 https://padlet.com/mel_rule76/ch11nzeuovqn/wish/386289442 2019-09-18 23:39:54 UTC https://padlet.com/mel_rule76/ch11nzeuovqn/wish/386289442 Olive calls Roo a "big man" and runs his own gang of cane-cutters s105281 https://padlet.com/mel_rule76/ch11nzeuovqn/wish/396535058 2019-10-11 06:17:46 UTC https://padlet.com/mel_rule76/ch11nzeuovqn/wish/396535058 Olive recounts with pride what Nancy used to say about Roo and Barney: she'd be in the pub with the "soft city blokes" drinking, and when Roo and Barney walked in, the other men would stand aside for them like they were kings. s105281 https://padlet.com/mel_rule76/ch11nzeuovqn/wish/396535612 2019-10-11 06:20:54 UTC https://padlet.com/mel_rule76/ch11nzeuovqn/wish/396535612 Olive creates a very clear definition of what constitutes a“real” versus a “soft” man, and she ties it primarily to where they work and live. Barney and Roo are real men because they work out in the bush and come to the city only for pleasure, while the "soft city blokes" are less masculine because they live and work in the city. In this way, Olive also suggests that the city men support and acknowledge these notions of masculinity s105281 https://padlet.com/mel_rule76/ch11nzeuovqn/wish/396535778 2019-10-11 06:21:44 UTC https://padlet.com/mel_rule76/ch11nzeuovqn/wish/396535778