Going Home: Stories
What is the plot of the story?
Going home (Pete Hamill)
Going home (Pete Hamill)
The protagonist of the title story in the collection is a high flyer. He achieves a lot in a very short time. Now, at University, he is a talented and successful athlete, top student and all around really nice guy. He has a special talent for painting and his art is both admired and collected by white people. He feels white because this is the world that he lives in, but he still feels proud of his black roots, although in order to achieve the success that he has, he has turned his back on his roots, and the family that raised him. When he turns twenty one years old he finds himself wanting to revisit the Aboriginal camp where he was born, but he is not well received there, and realizes that there is enormous cultural ignorance on both sides, and also that when he lives amongst his Aboriginal relatives, white people coming to the camp don't treat him as they did out in the white world.