The Early Settlers by Ken Chau

1. How does this title refer to two groups of ‘settlers’? Who are they? The title refers to the Asian people who moved to Australia and the white people who settled before him. This technique is a pun.

2. How is the first line of the poem successful at being ‘forceful’ regarding the Great-Grandfather’s presence in Australia? It is successful at being 'forceful' as the name Great-Grandfather is in capital letters and is the first words in the poem. This is a declarative sentence which introduces someone. 

3. What action are the ‘early settlers’ doing that gives them equally a strong presence? They are already established and settled into life in Australia which makes them seem powerful and the more important people.

4. How is the intention of the Great-Grandfather juxtaposed to the beliefs of the ‘early settlers’? The beliefs of the 'early settlers' were that they hated any of the immigrants who came to Australia such as Ken Chau's Great-Grandfather who hated the Australians.

5. What action does the Great-Grandfather do that ties him both to the ‘early settlers’ and to his own culture? The Great-Grandfather swears about the Australians as they do to him when he arrives to Australia and is how his own culture views other cultures who come to their land as immigrants or migrants.
6. How does this short poem highlight the irony of the hatred that immigrants experience when they come to a 'settled' land like Australia? It is ironic that when immigrants arrive to Australia many Australians think of them as worthless and terrible people for coming to their country when in fact the Australians are also immigrants of the Aboriginal people who were the first colony of people to live in Australia.