Anthony Hill's "Growing Up" | Analysis

Denne study guide hjælper dig med analyse af novellen "Growing Up" af Anthony Hill. Her finder du et godt overblik over de væsentligste elementer i teksten, som det er en god idé at inddrage i din egen analyse. Ud over et resumé af novellen og hjælp til perspektivering, behandler vi novellens struktur, indhold, karakterer, miljø og meget mere.

Præsentation af teksten

Titel: “Growing Up”
Forfatter: Anthony Hill
Udgivet i: Growing Up and Other Stories (1999)
Genre: Novelle

Anthony Hill (f. 1942) er en amerikansk forfatter og journalist. Han startede sin skrivekarriere som journalist og debuterede først sent som skønlitterær forfatter i 1988. I mellemtiden drev han i en årrække en antikvitetsbutik. Samtidig med sin litterære karriere var han også i en længere periode taleskriver for Australiens generalguvernør.

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Title

The title of the short story—“Growing Up”—suggests the narrative is about the coming of age of a child. On reading the story, we find out it is about events that made the narrator (then a boy) mature earlier than expected, through experiencing racial discrimination that he sees as unbeatable. When he was a boy, the Aboriginal narrator and a white boy became friends, despite the underlying racial discrimination in Australian society. Although they managed to overcome some challenges to their friendship (triggered by racism), their friendship was still eventually ruined because of racism. This made the narrator grow up (mature) faster, as the event has taught him that Aboriginals cannot avoid racial prejudices against them. Notably, the friendship between the narrator and Evan (the white boy) is only affected by the attitude of adults (Evan’s sister).

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