5 point summary pages 22-33

 Emma offers Roo a loan (50 quid)

 Roo is going to look for a job
 Pearl finds out barney has kids
 Pearl wants to move out after barney comes banging on her door one night and
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34-43 summary
• Olive is upset that the cane-cutters have not arrived yet for the layoff season.
• Roo and Barney unexpectedly arrive, a week earlier than usual.
• Roo and Olive are happy to see each other, but Barney feels left out and ignored.
•Olive and Roo reminisce about their past and how they used to spend their time
together.
•Olive tells Roo that she has changed and wants to settle down with him, but Roo is
not ready for that.
•Barney gets drunk and argues with Roo, revealing his jealousy and insecurities
about Roo and Olive's relationship.
•Olive tries to calm Barney down, but he becomes violent and breaks the kewpie doll
that she cherishes.
•Roo and Barney fight, and Roo injures his hand. They leave Olive's place, and Olive
is left alone, devastated.

 Juxtapositioning of character movement eg page 74 “ Pearl squeals in alrm and

Emma scurries to safety as Roo grapples with Barney”
 Dialogue from a single character interspersed with actionseg Roo p17 “don’t you
try…. Drops any pretence”
 Naming -> Bubba -> infamilitises her character
 Roo -> connotations of a wilf animal and an Australian icon
 Alliteration: ill break Barney’s bloody neck -> includes plosive consonants -> makes it
sound like the line is spat out
 Interruptions (signalled by em dash) “we get to the races tomorrow-