Character Analysis: The Shark Net

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1. The Shark Net is a mixture of sunshine and darkness, happiness and sorrow, innocence and experience, good and evil. Discuss this mixture.
Drewe’s memoir ‘The Shark Net’, documents his coming of age when his family moved to one of the most isolated habitation in Australia in the 1950s. Drewes juxtaposes the display of the co-existence that happened around him, he utilizes the sunshine and darkness of Perth and the discovery of innocent to experience as he matures.

The Shark Net exposed many aspect between a mixture of sunshine and darkness. Sunshine and darkness portray the meaning of day and night in Perth. Drewe use sunshine to symbolise the people and the place of Peth. He described the place as a sun burned city of sand and surf just …show more content…
Discuss Drewe’s relationship with his mother and father.
In The shark Net, Robert Drewe exposed the sorrowfulness within him as his discovers the corrupted relationship between his parents thus, talking about the shifting relationship with his parents through his coming of age.

When Robert was younger, his relationship with his mother, Dorothy, was very close. Back then, he was a mother’s boy and his security was his mother’s priority. Dorothy kept warn him of the boiling brain, as it’s an extreme form of the weather in Perth. However, as he matures, the relationship between Dorothy changed significantly. Dorothy’s personality is much conserved, she has no acceptance towards sexual acts. Therefore, when she find out about Robert’s girlfriend, Ruth, became pregnant, their relationship significantly distant from one and another. Dorothy became really upset as she was only cooking but not eating. Robert discovers the two contrasting personalities of the unsettled suburban mother Dorothy who tries to hide Dot. Dot was Dorothy’s younger self before marrying Roy, Dot is a very energetic little girl with dark hair and very tanned who ran everywhere sprinting along the shore and cartwheeled on the beach and did handstands. She regards Robert as the White Knight who shows the thoughtfulness and friendship her husband, Roy, does not provide her. As the distant relationship between mother and son kept on, Dorothy past away and Robert felt guiltiness for not being there for her at some times and if he had helped his mother more she would not be
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