The deeper message I am getting from the book is that of the time period in which the story takes place and how different races are viewed. What I noticed was that they possessed a very southern ideology, particularly Mary. Mary was the older of the two so she has been around longer and knows more about how life is around their home during this time period. You could say that due to Pete's youth he was ignorant and naive to race. She though definitely looked down upon the aboriginal and saw him as an inferior. They mentioned that their home was in Charleston, which supports my claim. I think the book takes place sometime in the mid 1900's before the civil rights movement or during. It had to have been sometime around here because the first ever commercial plane flight occurred in 1945 and there plane went down in the middle of the Australian outback, long flight from Charleston. Also, at the end Mary was not as embarrassed about being naked in front of the Black Aboriginal as she would have been if the man were white.
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