In this poem "Truganninny" by Wendy Rose, it talks about a tasmanian woman, and how she was left to watch her husbands dead body be put on display for everyone to see and stare at and make sun of. She then says that she hopes for herself when she dies that this injustice does not happen to her, she wants to be buried in the ground, as she states under the bulk of a mountain or in the distant sea. Where her body cannot be put on display for everyone to see.
I think that this is ind of disturbing, because I don't know of anyone who worries about being on display when they die. It almost seems like you have to get something in written form with the persons permission to do that. Like they do now., when some people offer their body to science when they die.I just do not think this is right and I cant believe that this could happen to someone.
Cali Simmons (post 9)
This is obviously a disturbing story. Why is it that Rose may want us to feel this way? What is her purpose in telling us Truganinny's story? It is important for us to consider not only what is happening in a literary work, but WHY it is happening.
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