Harry Lavender

“Identity is essentially about the search to define oneself or one’s community and the struggle to maintain this…”


In order to fully understand ones identity, we must first define one’s community and the struggle to maintain this. Everyone at some point in their life struggles with who they are and where they belong within a community. We all want to fit in to a community and we all struggle to maintain our place.

In “The Life and Crimes of Harry Lavender” by Marele Day we follow Claudia, Robbie, Steve, Harry and various other characters struggle to maintain their identity. We follow them and witness the steps that each character takes to maintain their identity and in “ I stopped dieting and started loving my body” Fonda tells the story of how most of her life was spend trying to maintain a false identity and the steps she took to correct herself.

Sydney, at a glance is beautiful and innocent but it is built on corruption and crime. The characters in “T...