12. Alice in the White Congregation
The minister did not like to sit with the colored people. If there is a white person in the same seat, he would usher them away.
The new minister was a South African and he didn‟t like the coloured people sitting in with the white congregation. See, we‟d go in, sit down
and make ourselves comfortable, but if there was a white person in the same seat he‟d come and usher them away to another phew Nannup 1992:
184.
The whites had a higher class than the Aborigine. The whites were the Aborigines‟ boss. The Aborigine was nothing for the whites. They were just slave.
They should not come and sit together with the whites because the congregation was usually a place where people held a meeting and shared their thoughts. The
minister did not want the Aborigine sat there because the Aborigine did not have the high position just like the whites there.
13. Alice and her Children on Sunday School
One day, it was coming up time for the Sunday school picnic for the kids. Alice‟s children really loved that picnic. The week before the picnic, the minister
said to Alice‟s child that she could not come to Sunday school next week. Her child was very upset and she wanted to know why she could not go. Alice went to
the minister and asked why her children could not go to the Sunday school, and the minister answered that he did not want to be responsible for looking after her
children.
I wanted to know why too, so I went around and saw the minister. His answer to me was he didn‟t want any responsibility for looking after our
children, so our kids couldn‟t go Nannup 1992:184. The minister did not want to take care of Alice‟s children. The minister
thought for what taking care a slave‟s children. It would not give him a benefit also. Alice was poor; she just gave a little money in the church every Sunday. If
the minister was taking care of her children, Alice still could not give anything like money or a gift to the minister as her gratitude feeling towards the minister.
14. Alice in the St John of God Hospital
When Alice went to St John of God Hospital, the lady in the bed next to Alice said to the sister why she screened me off. The sister said that she thought
the lady next to Alice did not want to be bedded next to a native. But the lady said „she‟s a friend, take that screen away‟. The sister removed it, but the other ladies
did not like it. They wanted the curtain pulled around Alice.
So they removed it, but I could hear all the other ladies talking. They didn‟t like it that I was in full view. They said, „No, that‟s not right,‟ and
they wanted the curtain pulled around me Nannup 1992:188. The other ladies did not like to see the Aborigine there because Alice was
a slave. She did not have the same position with the whites. The whites felt angry because they thought a slave should be kept separate from the whites. Even by
being curtained, it was enough not to see her face around their sight. The evidences above are the events when the whites do the unfair
treatments towards the aborigine. The main character is being colonized by the whites who are the colonizer. It is not only done by one person, but almost all the
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