![]() (And the inclusion of the word “true” in the title is something that students should be asked to think about.) The book follows the broad strokes of Kelly’s life story, but also incorporates some of the well-known and even celebrated mythology about the outlaw. Third, the book ends with a third person explanation of how the parcels came to be preserved. ![]() He’s often charming, but not sophisticated in language or syntax. ![]() Second, by creating an only partially literate narrative voice in Kelly. Kelly writes the story to explain to his daughter, who he never expects to know him, his history, and what circumstances triggered his turn to lawlessness.Ĭarey attempts verisimilitude by first passing the text off as several archival parcels of letters, complete with notes from rare book librarians. The story follows Ned Kelly from the age of twelve, just before the death of his father, to his own death at the hands of a mob at the Siege of Glenrowan. Peter Carey’s The True History of the Kelly Gang is a historical novel, told in the first person by infamous Australian bushranger (outlaw or highwayman) Ned Kelly. ![]()
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