had the advantage to look for protection because they had power in the society. So finally, Alice still had to apologize after Miss Ryan apologized first to Alice.
Through Alice‘s reaction to the situation and what she said, it can be seen that Alice is a persistent person. If she believes that she is right then she persistently
holds on to her belief.
2. Stubborn
Alice has a stubborn personality. Since she was a little girl, Alice had shown her stubbornness. When she saw the Aborigines were treated cruelly by the
white people, Alice insisted on seeing this sad event because she felt sorry for them even though her mother forbade her.
When I saw them I used to run back up to my mother and say in language that I felt sorry for them and that. She‘d say to me, ‗You shouldn‘t look,
you shouldn‘t look. Don‘t go back down there.‘ But I couldn‘t help it. I‘d know exactly when they‘d be coming and I‘d have to go and see them.
There was a big rock that I used to sit behind to watch p. 24. Alice could not bear seeing her people being punished cruelly which was
much severe than the mistakes they made. She felt sorry for them. Even when her mother told her not to go and look at that scene, Alice stubbornly kept coming
back to the place where she used to go and watch it from there. Alice was being stubborn because she noticed that something was not right. She noticed that it was
only her people, the Aborigines, who were treated that way. There was no white man in every scene that she witnessed being punished cruelly. That is why she
was being stubborn to obey her mother because she wanted to share the pain with her people by feeling sorry.
Another proof that shows Alice has a stubborn trait is when she was working for Mrs. Campbell. When Mrs. Campbell had forbidden Alice and her
father to meet, Alice who used to obey Mrs. Campbell‘s orders showed her stubborn side.
Mrs. Campbell would have to talk to me two or three times before I‘d do what she wanted, I was really rebelling. She could see that I wasn‘t happy
because I used to be willing to do whatever I was told to do, nothing was ever too much for me p. 57.
Alice was being stubborn when she was not permitted to meet her father.
She made Mrs. Campbell to repeat the order several times until she did what she was ordered to do. Even though she was being stubborn, she finally had to go
Mrs. Campbell‘s way because she had no choice. As an Aborigine, Alice had the disadvantage to go against the white people‘s order because she had no power in
the society.
3. Brave
Being brave is one of Alice characteristics. Alice was a brave person since she was a little girl. There
were several events that revealed Alice‘s brave trait. When Alice was just a girl, there was an old man who forced her to marry him by
the Aborigine‘s tradition law. He bothered Alice by asking her to feed him. However, Alice bravely confronted him.
―He‘d be saying to me, ‗You my woman, you feed me.‘ I said to him, ‗Mirda, nyinda buga,‘ That means, no You buga, you
stink p. 35. ‖ Alice‘s reaction shows that even though she was just a girl, she had
no fear. She bravely said what she needed to say even to an old man.
Alice was also brave even to a person who is bigger than her physically. When she was staying in the dormitory, there was a girl who accused Alice. The
girl accused Alice that Alice had been talking about her. Alice who had no idea told her to get out of her way but she got hit from the girl. However, Alice was not
afraid and went hit the girl back who was bigger than her physically. But she wouldn‘t tell me, so I told her to get out of my way, and she hit
me. So I up and hit her back, I gave her the works. She was a bigger person than me, too, but I just lost my block p. 72.
Alice was brave not only to a person who was bigger than her, but also to a person who even has higher position than her even to people that has authority.
As an instance, when Alice had a fight with Miss Ryan and Miss Ryan had called the police woman to come over, Alice was not at all afraid. She even bravely had
a confrontation with Lady Dugdale, the police officer. I was really frightened then, and angry too. I said to her, ‗Lady, you better
not, you better not Miss, because if I get that whip off of you, you‘ll get it too. You touch me and I‘ll get Mr Larsen. You better talk to Mr Larsen
first.‘ p. 103. Alice, who was not afraid of Lady Dugdale, spoke to her bravely in an
angry manner that Lady Dugdale should not even dare try to touch her. This shows that Alice has a brave trait even to people with power.
Alice is also a kind of person is brave to point out what is wrong even if it risks her job. It is seen when she told Margaret, Mrs. Cashmore‘s daughter, who
treated Roma in an improper manner to treat Roma as a guest.
