BURYING THE HATCHET: ACCLAIMING ONE’S OWN PAST IN PATRICIA WRIGHTSON’S THE ROCKS OF HONEY

Abstract

This paper attempts to explore the importance of ones own past in Patricia Wrightsons The Rocks of Honey. It focuses on the trauma and ignorance that one feels towards their own past which is caused by the settlers opinion and their way of discriminating the aborigines based on racial terms. Itprobes into the agony of a lost cultural heritage and the struggle of one young boy who struggles to set things right. Its heartening to note that the aboriginal people held such great understanding of life