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This close passage analysis response references the short stories ‘Hope’, ‘Cracks in the Hickory’, and ‘The Stilt Fishermen of Kathaluwa’.
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Like the optimism that emerges in Mr Lucas’ determination to ‘fund his daughter’s future’, the infusive tone of hope is a feature of the Australian author Maxine Beneba Clarke’s collection ‘Foreign Soil’. A belief in the inherent goodness of humankind transcends social conditions that suggest a bleaker reality than the author is willing to accept. Evoking the experiences of young children and adolescents who occupy the peripheral spaces that mark them as outsiders, whether it be through economic impoverishment, gender identity constraints, or political uncertainty, the challenges imposed upon individuals to make their way in an often hostile landscape, are pitted against the love of family and a resilience that radiates strength and a will to defy these normative limitations and expectations.
