For example, I know what it’s like to be hungry, it’s a terrible thing.” This was a hint at Nan’s past and “We expect of the Milroys, but not of girls of your calibre” showing that societies general view of Aboriginals at the time was that they were inferior. Sally begins to piece these remarks together and gets to the realisation that Nan is black. This brings up hidden secrets that Nan and Mum had tried to supress all this time, about their past which had scared them both for life. Nan then has a sense of denial and rejection. She believes that now that Sally knows what she truly is, she is not wanted. “You bloody kids don’t want me, you want a bloody white grandmother, I’m black” Sally cannot understand why Nan reacts the way she did. Nan lacks a sense of self actualisation at this moment and needs to go through the inner journey which will be dangerous and confronting to get over her horrendous and scarring past have a sense of personal triumph. For the first time in Sally’s life Sally is conscious of Nan’s colouring. “For the first time in my fifteen years, I was conscious of Nan’s colouring...if she wasn’t white, then neither were we. What did that make us, what did that make me?” This is a moment of epiphany for Sally, as she is lost. She has no sense of belonging anymore, so sense of self and most importantly is lacking any identity. This is the true start to…