Thornhill’s+Place

Jordan- **Summary:** There was no more trouble from the blacks, and the new settlers had taken up land on each bend. Crops and families had flourished and trade on the river was good. Thornhill was somewhat like a king and so was his wife Sal, a queen. They had got Devine ( an irishman) to build them a thick stone walls to suround their perfect house with their english garden, which could hardly surrive due to the harsh australian weather. Pages 312-322 tell us of the luxuries the Thornhill's had.

occured with Sal, The fight to go back home was still in her mind. She had created her own english garden behind them stone walls, still wishing one day they would travel back home."//bury me here when i go//, she told him. //So i can feel the leaves fall on me."//  here she is still expressing her love for england and not taking into consideration of the australian land. She wants to be back home. "Kept out everything except what was invited in"- Sal wanted her and her family to be excluded from the outsiders and only let in who she wanted to.
 * Conflicts **

William had used the statues of the lions (he had once saw when he was young) put high on gateposts. The message was: watch your step, you are on my place now. Here we are seen that the English have taken over what was once the Aborigines land.