The Tribe, Michael Mohammad Ahmad And Lucy Treloar

In ‘The Tribe’ Michael Mohammad Ahmad and Lucy Treloar in ‘Salt Creek’ show a major role in their lives through their perspective in recognising gender norms in The Tribe and historical narratives in Salt Creek. In contrast, the difference between gender norms and historical narratives is that gender norms are what men or women are determined to do because of their sex body parts. Gender norm contain a variety of behaviours, beliefs, values and traditions based on the knowledge of what men and women think they should do that are identified as women or men. Historical narrative is a theory that traditional or modern events are story-based written in historical form that is beyond the control of humans. Throughout, this essay states gender norms in The Tribe, which demonstrates violence against women when Bani and his male family members are physical towards women and women are obedience due to traditionalism. In Salt Creek, historical narratives is establishe d through Papa’s movement to an agricultural area where land is owned by ‘no one’ and furthermore Hester’s historical romance with Charles. These two texts state the behaviour of men and the return of colonial settlers and independence. According to Turcotte (278) â€Å"It is this very quality which Freud identified as the condition of the THE UNCANNY, where the home is unhomely- where the heimlich becomes unheimlich and yet remains sufficiently familiar to disorient and disempower†. Violence against women is shaped by