No Sugar Themes and Issues
Often fiction texts, while involving fictional characters, construct these characters and the settings in which they exist, to convey certain issues and themes. Author Jack Davis does this in his stage production No Sugar which deals with complex issues through its use of setting. Indeed, the setting is central to No Sugar’s narrative, as it is the basis of the play’s plot events. This essay will discuss in further detail how certain issues and themes are conveyed through the use of setting by the author Jack Davis in No Sugar. ... However, Australian society has not always been so tolerant as No Sugar, while being a piece of fiction literature, demonstrates when it conveys real issues that existed and in some aspects still exist within society today. The Millimurra family are fictional characters but their experiences could reflect and represent what real people experienced at the time and setting that No Sugar is set.