Wandering Girl - General Analysis

Wandering Girl a non-fiction text by Glenyse Ward explores the delicate issues of racism and the stolen generation. Ward tells the story of her adolescent years working as a ‘dark servant’ for the Bigelow family at Bigelow farm on Ridgeway. Through the text Ward is unfairly dehumanised by Mrs Bigelow who treats Ward as inferior, different and as a servant from the middle ages. Through the text Ward uses a number of techniques to position and manipulate the reader into accepting her values and attitudes.

Wandering Girl is a text about a stolen generation aboriginal girl who was taken away from her mother because she was a half cast. Glenyse Ward was taken to Saint Joseph’s Orphanage until she was three then was put into Wandering Mission Where she was brought up until she was sixteen and sent to work for the Bigelow family. This text explores the difficult issues of racial prejudice towards the aboriginal culture.

Wards text employs a hybrid genre, mixing diary, journal and ...