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.

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. 

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.

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”

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.

‘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.’