The Aboriginal basketball player’s younger brother was a juvenile offender whom Bob Lang was instructed to deliver to Longmore, a prison. Bob, by then struggling with alcoholism, accidentally let the prisoner escape; luckily Bob had brought Vic with him, and Vic was able to catch the prisoner, saving Bob’s career but leaving Vic with lingering guilt for his complicity in jailing the boy.
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The Aboriginal Basketball Player’s Younger Brother Character Timeline in The Turning
The timeline below shows where the character The Aboriginal Basketball Player’s Younger Brother appears in The Turning. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Aquifer
...and his peers avoid are the Joneses, who he describes as “angry”; the Joneses beat his brother once, inspiring lifelong animosity and, it is implied, racism toward Aboriginal people.
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Defender
...her, and neglected to say before, was that that boy he knew from school had a younger brother heavily involved in crime. Once, Vic’s father was tasked with taking him to prison, and...
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