Along with these historical moments being adjusted to better fit a narrative, Carey’s incorporation of magical realism compels the narrative to drift further from being a fact-based to more of a folkloric piece. These elements include the banshee, rat catcher, and a magnificent horseman who appears as a “wraith-like boy” (Clancy 175).
The newspaper articles from The Jerilderie Gazette and The Morning Chronicle are also used to show the subjectivity experienced by Ned Kelly. In an interview with Andreas Gaile, Carey confirms the authenticity of the articles, but admits to have personally edited the articles (Gaile 38). In Bliss’s article, she explores how “the enigmatic and suggestive voice of Kelly himself dominates the text, but it is interrupted, edited, and mediated to us in a variety of ways,” the most obvious being the heavily edited newspaper articles (Bliss 48). In the novel it is said that Mary Hearn, Kelly’s fictitious lover, …show more content…
It could be that the novel’s use of historical facts from Ned Kelly’s actual life being interwoven with portions of magical realism, then fabricated historical documents being scattered within the content are not as important as some critics make it seem. In a review, Robert Edric specifies that “we are not seriously expected to believe that this is a transcript of Kelly’s own work… what Carey demands of us is … that we trust the narrator of the tale as much as the tale being told” (Edric, 2001). Edric means that Carey used the novel to, rather then proving that his narrative is the most accurate one to exist, challenge the reader to trust his narrator, more so then the story his narrator is telling (Edric,
The newspaper articles from The Jerilderie Gazette and The Morning Chronicle are also used to show the subjectivity experienced by Ned Kelly. In an interview with Andreas Gaile, Carey confirms the authenticity of the articles, but admits to have personally edited the articles (Gaile 38). In Bliss’s article, she explores how “the enigmatic and suggestive voice of Kelly himself dominates the text, but it is interrupted, edited, and mediated to us in a variety of ways,” the most obvious being the heavily edited newspaper articles (Bliss 48). In the novel it is said that Mary Hearn, Kelly’s fictitious lover, …show more content…
It could be that the novel’s use of historical facts from Ned Kelly’s actual life being interwoven with portions of magical realism, then fabricated historical documents being scattered within the content are not as important as some critics make it seem. In a review, Robert Edric specifies that “we are not seriously expected to believe that this is a transcript of Kelly’s own work… what Carey demands of us is … that we trust the narrator of the tale as much as the tale being told” (Edric, 2001). Edric means that Carey used the novel to, rather then proving that his narrative is the most accurate one to exist, challenge the reader to trust his narrator, more so then the story his narrator is telling (Edric,