Archie Weller Going Home Pdf
Contents. Early life Archie Weller was born in, and grew up on a farm, Woonenup, near in the region of the state. He attended in Perth as a boarder. His mother was a journalist and his father was a farmer. As a young child Weller was encouraged by his grandfather to write. Writing Weller states he wrote his first book, The Day of the Dog, 'within a period of six weeks in a spirit of anger after his release from Broome jail for what he regarded as a wrongful conviction'. It won the 1980, in 1982 the inaugural Prose Fiction award in the Western Australia Week Literary Awards, now called the, and was made into a film entitled, which won two in 1993.
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Weller's second novel Land of the Golden Clouds was published in 1998. Plot of Going Home The title story in the collection Going Home deals with the complexities of the Aboriginal identity in Australia. Jdm programmer software. It is set in the 1980s and the protagonist has succeeded at university. He excels at sports, studies art and does paintings that are admired by the white community. But in achieving this acceptance he has turned his back on his home and his family.
He feels white, but at the same time he is proud to be black. On his 21st birthday, nostalgia for his roots leads him to return to the camp of his birth, only to discover that his new 'white' identity is invisible in the darkness of ignorance and prejudice.
In contrast, another story in the collection, 'Herbie', is about a white boy named Davey who witnesses the killing of an Aboriginal boy and though he is cruel to the boy and offers no resistance to the boys who eventually result in his death, the boy sympathises with Herbie's mother and shows remorse. In this story he portrays a boy who at the time has no empathy towards Herbie, an indigenous boy. It portrays bullying and brutal behaviour in a schoolyard with fatal consequences. Confession of a Headhunter The script Confessions of a Headhunter, which Weller co-wrote with, won an award in the 2001, the Cinema Nova Award and the 2000 Australian Film Institute Awards for Best Short Fiction Film, and the 2001 award for Best Short Film. Australian Poetry Library. University of Sydney. Retrieved 2012-04-17.
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