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''The Secret River'' by Kate Grenville is a historical novel set mostly in Victorian Australia, following the life of William Thornhill, a desperately poor man who stole to survive and was eventually convicted, deported and became a settler at British colony of New South Wales (Sydney). The novel focuses on the effect of colonialism on Australian native people (Aborigines) and how the conflict between the settlers and the natives came about.
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!!This book provides examples of :
* CrapsackWorld: Thornhill's world never stays happy for long.
* CycleOfRevenge
* FaceHeelTurn: [[spoiler: Thornhill]], depending on what you think of him to start with.
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* CrapsackWorld: Thornhill's world never stays happy for long.
* CycleOfRevenge
* FaceHeelTurn: [[spoiler: Thornhill]], depending on what you think of him to start with.
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''The Secret River'' by Kate Grenville is a historical novel set mostly in Victorian Australia, following the life of William Thornhill, a desperately poor man who stole to survive and was eventually convicted, deported and became a settler at British colony of New South Wales (Sydney).
The novel focuses on the effect of colonialism on Australian native people (Aborigines) and how the conflict between the settlers and the natives came about.
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''The Secret River'' by Kate Grenville is a historical novel set mostly in Victorian Australia, following the life of William Thornhill, a desperately poor man who stole to survive and was eventually convicted, deported and became a settler at British colony of New South Wales (Sydney).
The novel focuses on the effect of colonialism on Australian native people (Aborigines) and how the conflict between the settlers and the natives came about.
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* VictorianBritain: Part one is set there.
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''The Secret River'' by Kate Grenville is a historical novel set mostly in Victorian Australia, following the life of William Thornhill, a desperately poor man who stole to survive and was eventually convicted, deported and became a settler at British colony of New South Wales (Sydney). The novel focuses on the effect of colonialism on Australian Native People native people (Aborigines) and how the conflict between the settlers and the natives came about.
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* PurpleProse: parodied with the letter to Lord Hawkesbury and with Loveday. Played straight a lot.
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* [[AmericanDream Australian Dream]]
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* HeelRealisation: A halfway one. [[spoiler: Thornhill]] realises that what he is doing is evil, but in the same paragraph says he is "not an evil man".
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* HeelRealisation: A halfway one. [[spoiler: Thornhill]] realises realizes that what he is doing is evil, but in the same paragraph says he is "not an evil man".
* MoralEventHorizon: [[spoiler: The final massacre.]]man".
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''The Secret River'' by Kate Grenville is a historical novel set mostly in Victorian Australia, following the life of William Thornhill, a desperately poor man who stole to survive and was eventually convicted, deported and became a settler at British colony of New South Wales (Sydney). The novel focuses on the effect of colonialism on Australian Native People (Aborigines) and how the conflict between the settlers and the natives came about.
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!!This book provides excamples of :
* [[AmericanDream Australian Dream]]
* CrapsackWorld: Thornhill's world never stays happy for long.
* CycleOfRevenge
* FaceHeelTurn: [[spoiler: Thornhill]], depending on what you think of him to start with.
* {{Foil}}: Blackwood becomes a heroic foil to Thornhill.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: The book's full of it
* HeelRealisation: A halfway one. [[spoiler: Thornhill]] realises that what he is doing is evil, but in the same paragraph says he is "not an evil man".
* MoralEventHorizon: [[spoiler: The final massacre.]]
* ObviouslyEvil: When we are introduced to Smasher Sullivan, he is standing by the body of a man he killed for stealing a cob of his corn.
* PurpleProse: parodied with the letter to Lord Hawkesbury and with Loveday. Played straight a lot.
* SettlingTheFrontier: With an emphasis on how the settlers interacted with the native population.
* VictorianBritain: part one is set there
* VillainProtagonist: Thornhill [[spoiler: by the end]]
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!!This book provides excamples of :
* [[AmericanDream Australian Dream]]
* CrapsackWorld: Thornhill's world never stays happy for long.
* CycleOfRevenge
* FaceHeelTurn: [[spoiler: Thornhill]], depending on what you think of him to start with.
* {{Foil}}: Blackwood becomes a heroic foil to Thornhill.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: The book's full of it
* HeelRealisation: A halfway one. [[spoiler: Thornhill]] realises that what he is doing is evil, but in the same paragraph says he is "not an evil man".
* MoralEventHorizon: [[spoiler: The final massacre.]]
* ObviouslyEvil: When we are introduced to Smasher Sullivan, he is standing by the body of a man he killed for stealing a cob of his corn.
* PurpleProse: parodied with the letter to Lord Hawkesbury and with Loveday. Played straight a lot.
* SettlingTheFrontier: With an emphasis on how the settlers interacted with the native population.
* VictorianBritain: part one is set there
* VillainProtagonist: Thornhill [[spoiler: by the end]]
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