No Sugar: Scene- By-Scene Analysis

No Sugar: Scene- by-scene analysis

Act One: Events Questions Orientation Scene One: The Millimurra-Munday family How are both poverty and resilience Northam are suffering under extreme represented in this scene? povery at the Government Well Aboriginal Reserve.

Scene Two: Frank Brown has arrived in the Why has Davis used cross-cutting town and is questioned by the (moving between locations) or the police. technique of split scene in this scene? Northam/ The scene then cross-cuts to Neville’s office in Perth where Neville and his Perth secretary Miss Dunn discuss the rate of unemployment.

Scene Three: Frank Brown comes to the Why is it important that women are the Northam Millimurra-Munday family’s ones shown to stop the men from camp to have dinner. He creating trouble? supplies alcohol to Jimmy and Sam.

Scene Four: Sergeant Carrol and constable What is ironic about a white man like Al Northam Kerr arrest Jimmy and Sam for Jolson putting on black make-up and, drunkenness. as Jimmy says, ‘makin’ out he was black’? Scene Five: Jimmy and Sam are charged Why do each of the three men charged Northam and sentenced for receive such different sentences? drunkenness; Frank is charged with supplying alcohol to Indigenous men.

Scene Six: Cissie becomes sick. How do poverty and isolation create a Northam sense of potential for tragedy in this scene?

Scene Seven: Jimmy gets out of gaol; Milly What is ironic about the Sergeant’s and Gran discover rations have comment about the ‘Tasmanian been further cut. solution’ in light of the diminishment in Northam/ government care and sustenance given to the Northam Indigenous community? Neville’s office in Perth

Scene Eight: Jimmy comes home. How does Jimmy stand up for the rights Northam and dignity of his family and people?

Scene Nine: Neville asks the Sergeant to How does this scene show the level of Neville’s office organise moving the hypocrisy in the bureaucracy of the Indigenous people of Northam time? to Moore River Settlement.

Scene Ten: Sergeant Carrol serves a Why does the Sergeant concede to Northam warrant on the Millimurra- Gran’s demands? Munday family to move them to Moore River. Key Point: Davis carefully portrays Jimmy as worldly, intelligent, politically aware and informed about the real reasons for the shifting of the indigenous people. This actively challenges stereotypes of Indigenous people.