Deadly, Unna?

Blacky, the main character in Deadly Unna? narrates the story of a year in his life. The novel has two parts to it, a winter and a summer. Winter is the football season and this year Blacky is sure they’ll make it to the grand final where he says to Arks, “Don’t worry, we’re gunna win this one.” Gwynne (1998:19). They do make it to the grand final and they do win the game. This is the first footy game they win in thirty eight years. But before they do win it, there are many issues Blacky goes through, one of the major ones being racism.

The book is set in Adelaide, where there are two main towns: The Port is a little country town and is where most of the non-indigenous people in live, including Blacky. Then, there is the Point. This used to be a former Aboriginal mission settlement. The only people who live at the Point are Aboriginals. Football provides the only point of contact between the two communities, besides some of the Aboriginals coming to the Port to buy some of their s

Throughout the whole book, Blacky has different relationships with many different people. Blacky has a good relationship with his mother and seven brothers and sisters. His mum “loved the footy and came to every match” Gwynne (1998:31) and always supported him with it. After a scary incident while out on the boat with his dad, his dad regards him as a “gutless wonder” and since that day, he didn’t ever go near the boat again. Pickles is “one of my (Blacky’s) very bestest friends.” Gwynne (1998:58). He is also on the football team, but doesn’t really play well. He thinks a lot about girls and thinks of ways on how he could get girls to like him and do stuff with him. Pickles tells Blacky that if they win the footy game, they will be heroes and the girls will be “all over us like a rash”. Pickles always made out that he got with a lot of girls down the bushes but Blacky knew that “as usual he was lying.” Pickles wasn’t the most hygienic person Blacky knew. Blacky said that Pickles

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