History - American History

History - American History

History - American History

Introduction

The publication of the fat man in history (1974), Peter Carey who is the Australian novelist and the short story writer, has played with blurring, the literal truth and the line between the combining fact, history and fiction with story. There is no difference in the Kelly Gang's true history. True History of the Kelly Gang (2000) is no different. Ned Kelly's first person account is the fictional, the nineteenth-century infamous bushranger and forbid; who is well known among Australians in the Australia, and he is as attractive to them, as Robin Hood is to the English or Jesse James is to Americans.

The history of true Kelly Gang, Kelley writes a series of letter for his unborn daughter. Through his letters, which he wrote, he tries to explain why he became first an outlaw. He said that he had no choice and he wanted that his daughter should know his true history as he knows the outcome of telling lies and showing silences. Peter's father was convict by Irish and shipped along with his family to Australia in the Great Transportation era. For the transported, the past has long been dead or silenced, as it is too painful to talk about the past, which was gone. Kelly has the experience, as he is aware of the pain of what that means for him and his culture. They belongs to such group of people who have no cultural remembrance, floating, drifting, and left this world without achieving their objectives and did not handover their generation any meaningful future.

The letters, which Kelly wrote are highly unpunctuated, imperative and unrefined, but they are unique and bright. He uses the language in the letters roughly, which is an Australian Irish language. He also refers to the stories and myths simple, which might be lost on today's audience or the daughter on whom he addresses (Bugliosi 2007 Pp. 147-171).

Discussion

The story, “True History of the Kelly Gang” starts with an unidentified third person and handwritten the account of Kelly in the town of Glenrowan and the last stand of his gang. Kelly provokes the battle, which was held at Glenrowan when he traps the police in a shootout. The story tells the moment in Australian imagination, which was described by the Kelly. At veranda hotel, Kelly appears along with his boys, who are dressed up in armor body and helmets with bucket shaped. After a well-known battleship, which is iron-sided in service during the American Civil War, he states himself as “the monitor”. The story has an attractiveness and it was proposes to accommodate at the Public Library of Melbourne Australia, which serves in establishing the chronological genuineness (Kallis 1996 Pp. 21-55).

Kelly composed his life in a story before the ending of his career and gave a name of “Jerilderie”. At the age of 12, he starts writing a story of his life, which were around 8300 words. His story includes the incidents of his life, the ...