1. The Omen, one; Wooreddy is a child but a wise one since he often listens to the old men. He lives on the island of Bruny. One day he steps on a thing not of this earth, an evil omen from the ocean. He then realizes that he will see the ending of the world.
Two: he grows into puberty and has the burning ritual, while the men tell him the myth of the Great Ancestor. He wants to find a mate but it has to be a local one. Mangana hast lost his wife to num (ghost/white man). People accept this curse on their people, but W knows that it’s the ending of the world. He decides to leave this haunted island.
2. Seek Allies: Fire is important, it keeps Ria W away. W finds a village with friends of his family and stays there. He haunts for the old men in return for their knowledge. He gets married. He isn’t a man before he has killed a num who takes their land. Goes on an expedition, kills a num …show more content…
They came from London and she would have much rather stayed. R worries much about becoming a man of substance, try to speak Cockney.
Three: some ghost women come to look at T and are delighted and they dress her in London fashion. When the two returns to the island she tells W that they will soon be leaving. M dies and R conducts a Christian burial, but at night they dig him up and burn him the traditional way. T doesn’t cry and W is worried because he feels that in times like these traditions should be kept.
Four: everyone is loaded into the ship, but W notice how mean the ghosts are to each other.
Doctor Wooreddy:
Representation of people and how they look upon each other. The meetings of cultures and how they have theories on how they look upon each other. The Aborigines meet the colonizers, but to them it is humans meeting num (ghost).
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Genre; historical fiction. An anthropological