Parkland by Victor Kelleher

Parkland by Victor Kelleher depicts the brave story about a girl named Cassie who leads a pack of baboons and humans to try and find new life outside their sanctum. Kelleher’s book outlines key social issues like survival, power and trust. It is an exceedingly dark book which expresses tragedies and inequalities.


The Feral people believed in survival of the fittest and it was everyone for themselves probably because they lived nomadic lives and were always being hunted by the Leopogs, Cassie however, contradicted to that, she was more compassionate and wanted everyone to be together, she believed bonding was the key. Hybrids didn’t know about life outside of Parkland because they had it easy, and were fed by the keepers.


Parklands enclosure denied the will to be free. Cassie had the vision to escape because she knew there was a world outside of Parkland and was more curious than d...