Scene Five: Jimmy and Sam are charged Why do each of the three men charged Northam and sentenced for receive such different sentences? drunkenness; Frank is charged with supplying alcohol to Indigenous men. Scene Six: Cissie becomes sick. How do poverty and isolation create a Northam sense of potential for tragedy in this scene? Scene Seven: Jimmy gets out of gaol; Milly What is ironic about the Sergeant’s Northam/ and Gran discover rations have comment about the ‘Tasmanian been further cut. in light of the diminishment in solution’ in government care and sustenance given Neville’s office Perth to the Northam Indigenous community? Scene Eight: Jimmy comes home. How does Jimmy stand up for the rights Northam and dignity of his family and people? Scene Nine: Neville asks the Sergeant to How does this scene show the level of organise moving the hypocrisy in the bureaucracy of the Neville’s office Indigenous people of Northam time? to Moore River Settlement. Scene Ten: Sergeant Carrol serves a Why does the Sergeant concede to Northam warrant on the Gran’s demands? family to move them to Moore River. Key Point: Davis carefully portrays Jimmy as worldly, intelligent, politically aware and informed about the real reasons for the shifting of the
Scene Five: Northam Jimmy and Sam are charged and sentenced for drunkenness; Frank is charged with supplying alcohol to Indigenous men. Why do each of the three men charged receive such different sentences? Scene Six: Northam Cissie becomes sick. How do poverty and isolation create a sense of potential for tragedy in this scene? Scene Seven: Northam/ Neville’s office in Perth Jimmy gets out of gaol; Milly and Gran discover rations have been further cut. What is ironic about the Sergeant’s comment about the ‘Tasmanian solution’ in light of the diminishment in government care and sustenance given to the Northam Indigenous community? Scene Eight: Northam Jimmy comes home. How does Jimmy stand up for the rights and dignity of his family and people? Scene Nine: Neville’s office Neville asks the Sergeant to organise moving the Indigenous people of Northam to Moore River Settlement. How does this scene show the level of hypocrisy in the bureaucracy of the time? Scene Ten: Northam Sergeant Carrol serves a warrant on the family to move them to Moore River. Key Point: Davis carefully portrays Jimmy as worldly, intelligent, politically aware and informed about the real reasons for the shifting of the Why does the Sergeant concede to Gran’s demands?
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