Revenge

All of Ned’s family begins to believe that Ned has betrayed Harry and they abandon him for a while. Meanwhile a policeman called Hall revenges himself on Ned and as a result he is sent to prison. Ned is only sixteen at this stage and is sentenced to three years of hard labor in prison. He announces how his youth has been stolen from him. We hear about a rat charmer who afflicts the family with rats because they refuse to give him money and as a result Ellen, who is Frost’s baby, dies. The family experiences a number of different tragedies. Meanwhile Ned’s mother marries a young man called George King. She becomes pregnant with him. On Ned’s return from Pentridge Gaol he finds that the land he has labored on previously is now being used by a stranger George King, and that thirty thoroughbred horses have been stolen by Constable Flood of Oxley. Ned is unable to be at peace until he gains his revenge. The story develops by recounting how Ned and his brother Dan spend time in and out of prison for various crimes from lawlessness to robbery to fighting the police.
We are now seeing how the police are really out to get Ned. He had a police man put him away and now he is going to seek his revenge. Tension builds up in the story through the continuous conflicts that are shown between Ned and the police force. Now it is very apparent that the police are the main villain and the Ned is the hero. He has to fight his was out of the battle’s. He doesn’t seem like a hero to many but he is. He fights for his family and his life. Just because he was born into a family that the police don’t like, the police shouldn’t have problems with him. He had no idea what was going on and now that he is older, he has to fight all the time and fend off the police. He is always moving and has no time to really settle down because if he does, the police could set a trap and arrest him. He will either be locked away for a long long time, or given a death sentence. And that is what I think will happen next.