Ned Kelly, hero or villain? A question still unanswered after over a century. In my opinion, Ned Kelly isn’t either. He did what he did for the right reasons, but in the wrong ways.
He didn’t start out life as a bad person, in fact, as a child he saved a little boy from drowning and was even awarded a silk ribbon as commemoration, however he was born to a convict and into a society where Irish Catholics were looked down upon which meant from the very beginning he had blocks stacked against him.
When he was just 14, he was arrested for the first time for stealing ten shillings which is equivalent to approximately $372.26 in Australian dollars in 2016. He supposedly announced during the arrest that he was going to be a bushranger. Soon after,
He didn’t start out life as a bad person, in fact, as a child he saved a little boy from drowning and was even awarded a silk ribbon as commemoration, however he was born to a convict and into a society where Irish Catholics were looked down upon which meant from the very beginning he had blocks stacked against him.
When he was just 14, he was arrested for the first time for stealing ten shillings which is equivalent to approximately $372.26 in Australian dollars in 2016. He supposedly announced during the arrest that he was going to be a bushranger. Soon after,