because they had no idea how little freedom she and her people had at that time 1992:218.
2. Alice Wanted to Get a Better Life
Alice had struggle for forty two years being a slave. As long as that time, she was also trying to get back to her hometown. At the end, she was able to go
back but she did not want to talk about her past anymore. All that she knew was she could come back home peacefully. She wanted to have a better life by
forgetting her grey past. I never spoke much about what had happened to me after I left with the
Campbells. It was just enough for me, and for them, that I‟d finally been able to come back. Aunty Minnie reckoned Amy bringing me back was
the best thing that could have happened Nannup 1992:211.
Alice who was able to come back home was what needed to highlight. If only her cousin did not come and asked her to go back home together, may be
Alice would still be a servant in other people‟s country now. She was really thanking her cousin for giving her the chance and encouraging her to leave the
place where she worked as a servant so that she may go home. Alice‟s big love to her family was also the reason why she was
passionately wanted to leave that place. She wanted to get a better life. She had been a slave for forty two years, and she did not want to be a slave anymore. She
wanted to be a better person because she thought that she was able to be. She was uneducated, but it was not the reason for her to keep being there and work as a
servant. She could get a better life if she left that place, and went back to her hometown. There might be something different in her hometown after these forty
two years. She might get a better education there and even a better life together with her big family.
Alice and her kids have done well. Alice was proud of her kids. She had thirteen kids with forty children between them, and their kids had forty seven. So
all together that made one hundred, and all of them were doing fine now.
3. Alice Wanted to Make Peace with Her Country
The struggle that Alice faced for forty two years was really hard for her. She thought that she couldn‟t go back to her country anymore. She thought that
her life will be end at the camp where she worked. It was a true going home story for Alice, and also tha
nked to Amy, Alice‟s cousin that helped Alice to leave the camp, the place where Alice lived and worked for forty two years. Now, Alice
was able to come back home. She was going back to make peace with her country.
I suppose you could say I‟ve gone back and visited all the places in my past. Like going to the old settlement and getting back to see my family.To
me, going back with Amy is my true going home story, but there is another part too, and that‟s going back to make my peace with my country
Nannup 1992:221.
Alice wanted to have equality between her tribe and the white people‟s tribe. She wanted a peace for both her culture and the white‟s culture. She was
able to come back to her hometown and gather with her family was a peace in her mind. She wanted all people to know about her struggle in the past forty two
years. She wanted the next generation to know how life was for people in her time. She wanted other people to know her life experience, and took it as a lesson
if possible. She wanted other people to be grateful for what they already had because there would always be something to be thanked for in every single day.
The discrimination that the whites done towards the main character, makes her change her way of thinking. She is a little different from who she is before.
She wants to have a better life, and freedom. It is one characteristic of postcolonial study. The colonized wants a freedom, and gets the equality between
their culture, and the other.
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