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No Sugar Jack Davis Study Guide PDF

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No Sugar Jack Davis Study Guide PDF

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Running head: NO SUGAR – A RESPONSENO SUGAR – A RESPONSEName of the StudentName of the UniversityAuthor Note
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NO SUGAR – A RESPONSE1Jack Davis is an eminent twentieth-century poet and playwright of Australia. He isalso known as a campaigner of the indigenous people who resided in Australia. theplaywright was a member of the Noongar aboriginal community that is found to be residingin the south-western region of the Western Australia. The majority of the literary work thatwas produced by the author was based on the experiences that he had with the indigenousAustralian people. No Sugar is one of the most famous plays composed by the eminentplaywright, Jack Davis. The following essay further discusses the themes of the freedom thatare depicted within the composition of the play.The play No Sugar was composed by Jack Davis against the backdrop of the GreatDepression that had struck the areas of Moore River Native Settlement, Perth and Northam,Western Australia. The play throws major light on a family who belong to the aboriginalAustralians and tends to throw light on the attempts made by the family for their subsistence.The play in discussion, No Sugar, discusses the marginalization of the aboriginal inhabitantsof the Australian origin who had been under the jurisdiction of the whites during the timespan that expired during the 1920s to the 1930s (Davis & MacDonough, 1986). The majorthemes discussed within the essay are the themes pertaining to the superiority or theempowerment of the whites and the racism that existed in the then society. The play alsodiscusses the themes that pertain to the disempowerment of the Aboriginals, the dependencyof the Aboriginals on their white counterparts, the materialistic values that were upheld bythe white Australians and the values that were upheld by the families of the Aboriginalmembers of the society. The theme that is majorly profound in the play is the search for the freedom by themembers of the poverty-stricken Aboriginals who have been residing in the land. The authormetaphorically points out the fact that these people would attain the hugely sought-afterfreedom only through the ultimate way of Death. The play puts forth the fact that the freedom
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NO SUGAR – A RESPONSE2that has been granted to the young couple is based on the terms and the conditions that are setout by the law enforcement head of the concerned area.The story revolves round the experiences of the members of the Aboriginal tribesresiding in the Northam and the Moore River Settlement Areas. The author puts forth thescenario that states that the poverty is a very common issue in the concerned areas and thatthe families that have been central to the story line of the play. The story is set under theconditions wherein the ration that needed to be provided to the Aboriginal residents faced afurther cut down under the instructions of the Chief Protector of the Aborigines, Neville. Theplay is set rolling when one of the central characters of the play, Jimmy Munday is arrestedby the law enforcement officers on the basis of his acceptance of the alcohol that wassupplied to him by one of his newly-found white friend, Frank. Jimmy is awarded a sentenceof three months for the crime that he had committed by accepting the gift of alcohol. As aresponse to this incident the other enforcement officers are issued orders for the forceful exileof the residents of the Government Well Reserve to the Moore River Settlement. Thegovernment had cited the fact that there has been anticipation of the spread of the rabieswithin the settlement which h is why the residents were being asked to undertake therelocation to the Moore River Settlement.The play further proceeds to put forth a love story that blooms in the midst of thisgloomy atmosphere. The young couple Joe and Mary also have to endure the ill practices ofthe then society in Australia. The young underage girl was asked to serve at the hospitalwhich might have given the Superintendent Neal with the ample amount of the opportunityand scope to molest the young girl. On having a hint of the actual scenario, the young coupleplan to escape back to the Government Well Reserve. The duo does get caught at theGovernment Well Reserve wherein the young man is arrested and the then pregnant girl wassent back to the Moore River Settlement where she was again asked to work at the hospital.
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