Narrator and point of view

The story “Growing Up” by Anthony Hill has an internal narrator who recounts events that happened to him. Consequently, the first-person narration is subjective and limited to the point of view of the character-narrator.

In the story, the narrator assumes the identity of an Aboriginal man who at the time of the account is already an adult and a father. However, he presents events that happened in his childhood: “My best mate was a white kid when I was growing up. We were about your age—eleven or twelve, something like that—and we were in the sixth grade together at the Balgalal State School.”  (p. 1, ll. 1-3)

The narrator presents the events from his perspective as a child, but certain reflections and direct addresses to his child/children (w...

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