Flour on your grave by Bruce Pascoe The human kind has always been afraid of the unknown, the unknown have always been dangerous, and we have always been keeping an eye out for everything new and strange. In “Flour on your grave” Bruce Pascoe puts focus on the consequences of the unknown and what happens in the worst case. “Flour on your grave” by Bruce Pascoe is about a group of farmers at a lake in Australia. Some aboriginals have made a camp next to the lake and because of the lack of knowledge about the aboriginals some of the farmers get scared of the aboriginals because they hear about an earlier story where a group of aboriginals killed a family in Glenaladale. Although some of the farmers tells the rest of them that the aboriginals is not dangerous a group of the farmers end up killing the most of the aboriginals, but some of the aboriginals survives because they were not in the camp when then ate the food with the poisoned flour, and they take revenge by killing Mrs. McKenzie and her baby.
The story is chronological organized without flash-backs or flash-forwards which mean the story is told in a straight line. The narrator is omniscient with a third person point of view, which gives the author the possibility to tell us about the feelings, thoughts and background of the persons in the story. This is seen on page 94 lines 67-68 where Mrs. McKenzie remembers the painting from the Sydney gallery. The title “Flour on your grave” is chosen because of the way the farmers kills the aboriginals. The farmers decides to give the aboriginals poisoned flour, which kills them when they eat the flour. Instead of putting flowers on their grave, you could say they put flour on their grave because that is what the farmers use to kill them. The main theme in the story is the fear of something unknown. The newest farmers are afraid of the aboriginals because