Alice in the St John of God Hospital

accused of leaving the door to the boys‟ dormitory open for them to get out. It wasnot Alice at all.She knew who was responsible but he never owned up. Anyway, it made me look like a liar, and when the committee came up and had a meeting I had my say. I told them how upset I was being blamed for something I hadn‟t done… but after that happened I decided to leave there and go and stay with my daughter and son in Mullewa Nannup 1992:203. She wanted to go back home with her children. She said when opportunity knocks, she would definitely go. She got that opportunity when her cousin came. It was when her cousin came and found her. Her cousin told her that Aunty Minnie was sick. “It was the opportunity that is knocking right now, so you come with me” said Alice‟s cousin to her Nannup 1992:205. Alice thought while there was a chance, it was better for her to grab it. She could go away and see her family again because that was what she wanted. There was a time when Alice was trying to escape from where she worked as a slave, but she failed at that time. She thought she could not go back again to her hometown. It perhaps was the place where she belonged to as an uneducated and poor person, but at the end, she was wrong. She was able to go back to her hometown because she took the chance that came to her. She had to be free from the life that made her stuck there 42 years as a slave. The freedom that she had makes her satisfied. She was really proud of herself. She had to stay in that job as a servant for twelve months before she could even think about leaving Nannup 1992:218. It was a difficult time for her at that time, and that was also something that young people did not realize today 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