The Yield Quotes Flashcards
(7 cards)
August - displacement and reconnection
2
“She’d existed in a foreign land of herself” - metaphor
“With her hands flat on the dry dirt and her eyes blinded with tears, she felt as if she were back home, back on the land she belonged to”
August - intergenerational trauma with senses
2
“She hadn’t told anyone about everything she couldn’t bring herself to remember… things that one shouldn’t be able to taste and smell”
“as she went away from her country, from her home, she still couldn’t remove the scent and taste of dirt and diesel and flesh and muddied water from that grey hemisphere of her mind” - connotation of unpleasant feelings
Albert - civilisation
3
“The books say a civilisation must meet four criteria: it must show house building, domestication of animals, agricultural activity and reverence for the dead”
“carving on trees at graves - muyalaang
“We have always been a civilisation, us”
Albert - cultural assimilation and revival
3
“Think White. Act White. Be White.” - short syntax
“I was buried in scripture, but buoyed by hope” - metaphor
“The Gondiwindi lost the gundi [song], only now it’s coming back to us again”
Greenleaf - paternalism
2
“Save those wretches from themselves”
“I visited their camps and entered their wretched bark and bough gunyahs where they slept in cramped and vulgar conditions”
Greenleaf - realising ignorance and injustice
2
“What horror, I felt questioning all that I had known before… The White man over the Black man? … replacing Baymee with the Lord?”
“[Australia] had become the nursing mother of injustice”
August - intergenerational trauma in general society
2
“The smell of the kitchen reminded August of the kids at school holding their noses as she sat to eat her hot lunch”
“Not the words hurled by the other locals in town, not the slurred looks, not the school history books and those lies, not everyone around her whose spirits were shattered in a thousand pieces”
