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Sister Kate, Ned Kelly and the documentary Outlawed: The real Ned Kelly vary in their representations of the truth surrounding the events at Stringybark Creek, the Jerilderie robbery and Glenrowan. Ned Kelly and Sister Kate position the responder to sympathize with Ned Kelly and his gang, portraying their actions as reasonable responses to police persecution and hence depicting them as rebel heroes. Alternatively Outlawed: The real Ned Kelly attempts to present both sides of the argument. ... It is a fictional novel, written in the form of a diary, by Kate Kelly Ned Kelly’s younger sister. As such her experiences influence the way in which the Kelly Gang and the police force are represented. Kate Kelly portrays the Kelly gang as rebel heroes justifying their reactions as merely larrikin. ... 8 that the other boys “[wanted] to be the equals of their hero Ned Kelly” in this, the is labeling Ned as some sort of hero. ... 31 with the statement that “sudden appearances in town could never [be verified], [Ned] being miles away before [the police] even heard of it”. As such, she is suggesting that Ned is too smart for the dull witted police. ... By leaving out such a main part in the story of Ned Kelly, we are not placed in a position to have a full understanding of his character. ... The police are portrayed as law breaking, slanderous, corrupt opportunists out to serve themselves and destroy the Kelly’s. ...
Their persecution of the Kelly’s is made evident in her analogy on p.4, likening the Kelly’s to wombats and the police to dogs, in “we were drawing in on ourselves, like a wombat attacked by dogs, burrowing quietly and desperately out of sight.”
Whilst Kate was not present at the shootings at Stringybark Creek, she still manages to justify their actions as self defense with a quote of Ned on p. ... 61
Kate Kelly’s account of the events is biased due to her relation to Ned Kelly and the rest of the gang.
Approximate Word count = 1679
Approximate Pages = 6.7
(250 words per page double spaced)
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