Critical Review My Place

CRITICAL REVIEW MY PLACE, SALLY MORGAN Sally Morgans My Place, published in 1987, is an autobiography astir(predicate) finding her Aboriginal root and her identity with the focal point on the lives of three generations of Australian Aborigines. Sallys family never talked rough their past and she was brought up thinking she was Indian. But she always felt contrastive than her friends, their way of living was not the same, so her curiosity led her to realizing that she is Aborigine. And indeed her quest for knowledge of her past begins.My Place is actually a newfangled somewhat womans search to find herself and her place in Australian society. The main themes argon discrimination, racism and Aboriginal culture. They are presented through with(predicate) two antithetic versions of autobiographical writing. One is Sallys root person narration, which is to a greater extent Western autobiographical and it focuses more than on her exclusive quest to find her identity. The other focuses on the Aboriginal life and more on the community and family life of Aborigines.The novel has 32 chapters, which are shared out into four parts Sallys narration about her proto(prenominal) life, education, family relationship, her perception of herself and her self-discovery Arthur Corunnas story, he is a brother of Sallys grandmother her mothers Gladys story and her grandmother Daisys story. Their stories focus on their life when they lived in Aboriginal society. The whole criminal record is a combination of narration, dialogues, descriptions, stories within stories, anecdotes, and personal reminiscences from various characters and also humour. totally that provides balance and harmony to the book. The book is easy to read, the language is quite simple, descriptions of the record are really specific and with the use of metaphors, symbolism and personification, the referee gets a vivid picture of the place that is described. However the first part, where Sally describes her puerility is a little bit boring, because there are mostly descriptions and exposit about things not relevant to the theme of the book.But when she starts to investigate her family roots with her constant attempt to get some answers from her mother and grandmother, the book becomes more interesting. The parts where her family talks about their life are very emotional, the reader gets an insight into their hard life as being black in the white world. Before Sallys book, not some(prenominal) was known about the Aboriginal life. She writes about the contact of two different cultures, Aboriginal and Western, so we get in touch with their history, their habits, way of thinking, diachronic background, injustice and struggles they had to fight.Other people always treated them as something little and because all the bad things that happened to them, they decided not to speak about it, they were laboured to be silent. There are still a lot of secrets, that are not revealed in the bo ok, because they are too afraid to speak about them, but we get to know some eventful information about their past from the people who wrote history on their own skin. So this is a really important book for Australian and Aboriginal culture, because it opens some important questions about racism and discrimination. ANA FURLAN