"Deadly Unna" tells a story about a teenage boy named Gary Black, who develops knowledge about racial prejudice in his town. He develops this awareness because of an aboriginal boy and girl. The novel shows us what actions he takes to deal with his feelings about this racism such as, attending Dumby Reds funeral even though he knew people didn't approve, stuck up for his beliefs with the aboriginals and also he cleaned the graffiti off the shed at the jetty.
             Gary's town is small and his community has lots of views and values about the aboriginal population. They are very critical and cruel when it comes to racism. The only relation the town has with the aboriginals of the Point is football, though the racial prejudice is still obvious. The town and the aborigines have a combined football team, as alone the people of the Port do not have enough players to make up a full team.
             When the new group of aboriginals start to play footy Blacky meets Dumby Red a great footballer, good at everything in fact, Blacky pretends he doesn't like him, Mainly because he is better than him at football, being an aboriginal it is hard for Blacky to comprehend and he becomes very envious, the fact that he is aboriginal is a good defense for Blacky to tell his friends he doesn't like him, but you can see that is not the real reason. In the beginning when his friends query him about liking Dumby he spits on the ground to verify that he means what he says when he states that Dumby is not a mate of his. However later on when his friends ask him a similar question he this time says "Piss off, his not my mate, I hate his guts" But this time I didn't spit, because I didn't mean it. Blacky then realises that maybe he does like Dumby after all. When Dumby stands up for him against Mad Dog you can tell that Blacky is proud of being friends with Dumby. When he says, "Nukin ya Dumby" "Nukk
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