The True Story of the Kelly Gang is a fiction novel written by Australian writer Peter Carey. The novel presents itself as an autobiography written by Australian bushranger Ned Kelly to his daughter. It depicts Ned's life as a child and adult. The audience also reveals the struggles with discrimination they overcome as an Irishman in the Australian world. This novel is full of many themes but the most obvious and catchy one would be racism. We are also able to identify many quotes and passages used in the text to demonstrate this theme. Carey's persuasive language and point of view play a crucial role in promoting the theme of racism. To begin with, the form in which Carey uses informal language in The True Story of the Kelly Gang encourages the theme of racism to be exposed and presented to the audience. drive. The repeated lack of punctuation and overuse of grammar in the text means that the Irish were illiterate and uneducated in early Australia. Usually when an Irishman was sent to Australia in the early days of colonization, they were usually convicts. Thus, when the Irish arrived in the colonies, they were considered insignificant and remained of lower social status than the British colonists, which is uncontroversial in the text: "Yet when we were finally allowed in, all my attention was attracted not by the blazing fire, but by a huge creature with red cheeks, the Englishman sitting behind the desk. I didn't know his name, only that he was the most powerful man I had ever seen and could destroy my mother if he wanted. The approach he said as if he were an altar. "The way Carey systematically uses language in the text develops a realistic scene in your head, in which you can put yourself in the po...... middle of paper ... ...we can connect to the to the fear and discrimination that Ned, his family, and all Irish people feel Throughout the novel, we are repeatedly reminded of the racism exhibited by the Englishman. The theme of racism is effectively developed in the text as readers can. feel what Ned feels Due to the first person point of view, this story has a certain mood that allows us to recreate different scenes of racism that Ned Kelly and all the Irish people went through. Informal language and outlook played a major role in reinforcing the theme of racism in The True Story of the Kelly Gang In early Australia, the Irish were mistreated unlike the English. actually dominated the Irish and discriminated against them. The way Ned Kelly addresses the reader (Carrey's choice of language and point of view) is linked to the mistreatment he suffered, that of his family and all his fellow Irish citizens..