Going Home | Analyse

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The story follows Billy Woodward who is travelling home to Koodup, which is an aboriginal camp where Billy grew up.

And he decided to head back home, subsequent to seeing a half-aboriginal player from the opposite football-team being picked up by his family.

Besides, playing football, he was studying at a college in Perth where I assume it is something related painting and art, as he is a painter and the fact that he bought his brand-new car by selling his paintings.

On his way there, Billy picks up an Aboriginal man, Darcy, who informs him that Billy’s father died two years before. When arriving at the camp Darcy shows Billy where his mother lives and leads him into the house.

Billy’s brother, Carlton, does not recognize Billy at first and Billy’s mother is upset with him for not coming to his father’s funeral.

Carlton and Billy’s cousin, Rennie, take Billy’s car to go buy drinks to celebrate Billy’s birthday. When they return, Carlton gives Billy a gold watch as a present.

And suddenly a police van arrives, and a police officer is recognizing the gold watch, and he thereby assumes that Billy was involved in the robbery and arrests him. The police also arrest Carlton it ends when Carlton smiles sadly and welcomes Billy home.

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The narrator knows only what Billy is thinking and feeling, and does not have access to the minds of the other characters

“The barman is a long time coming, although the bar is almost empty. Just a few old cockies and young larrikins, right down the other end. Arrogant grey eyes stare at Billy. No feeling there at all.”

Here is an example of how the narrator borrows Billy’s perspective when describing the setting


The fact that the narrator offers Billy’s interpretation of other characters’, may result in a unreliable narrator is the narrator is influenced by Billy’s own state of mind.

“they speared him with their proud black eyes” suggesting that Billy is betraying his own culture, but Billy might be projecting his own guilt onto them.