Critically analyse pages 31 -60 of Robert Drewe's 'The Shark Net'. Include literatry techniques used by the author.
This first chapter of Part Two of Robert Drewe's memoir, 'The Shark Net', portrays the significant role of the Dunlop Company within the Drewe household. Titled 'Blackboys', Drewe illustrates Dunlop's power 'to separate you from your family.' This is symbolic of their transfer to Western Australia, and Drewe's mother forcefully having to leave her family in Melbourne. He describes the company's controlling influence: 'It could send you all...twelve hours and two thousand miles …
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…contrasting scenes of risk taking and domesticity. Silently undressing, Cooke '[takes] care not to wake the kids and [slides] into bed beside Sally,' -- his wife! This raises serious questions regarding Cooke's mental state. Such complication discourages the reader to empathise with him, despite the callous treatment he received earlier. We finish the section wondering the rationale for Cooke's bizarre behaviour and if the brutal murders are motivated by his exclusion from society.
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