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George is the younger son of Joe Kane, the brother of Aaron, and the half-brother of Sissy Brown. He’s kinder and more moral than Aaron, but he is incapable of stopping his brother’s violent and criminal outbursts. Devoted to Odette when she was his nanny, he tries to protect Sissy from Aaron’s attentions but is ultimately unsuccessful. He dies in the same explosion that kills Henry and Aaron.
George Kane Quotes in The White Girl
The The White Girl quotes below are all either spoken by George Kane or refer to George Kane . For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 6 Quotes
Walking back to the track to collect her bike, Sissy puzzled over the family in the portrait. What would cause them to abandon their own home and leave all their clothes and furniture behind? She had no idea. She wondered about the two Aboriginal women. They would have been away from their own families, working for the white people. Although her grandmother never spoke to her about girls in the district who’d been taken away from their families, Sissy had heard stories about missing sisters, cousins, friends. In the schoolyard at lunchtime, they would sometimes argue over who the Welfare Board went after, the dark or fair children. They would line up from the darkest to lightest skinned. Sissy always found herself at the end of the line, not sure if she was the safest or if she might be the next child to be taken.
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George Kane Character Timeline in The White Girl
The timeline below shows where the character George Kane appears in The White Girl. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Chapter 1
...as a birthday present. Their conversation is interrupted by the dramatic arrival of Aaron and George Kane, the teenaged sons of Joe Kane, a disaffected White farmer whose farm failed during...
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Aaron demands that Henry open the junkyard and sell him and George equipment for their truck. Henry insists that he doesn’t have the parts and that he...
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...physically abusing Aaron, but she had no way to intervene. In the present, something about George’s face seems strange to Odette, but she can’t put her finger on why.
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Chapter 4
...“Keep Out” sign. She talks with him on her return trip, learning that Aaron and George Kane tried to break in a few nights earlier. Apparently, they brought guns. Rowdy, Henry’s...
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...she takes it for a wobbly test drive, Odette revisits the subject of Aaron and George Kane. She wants to know what Henry will do—really—if they come back. He says he...
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Chapter 6
...realizes that she’s gotten a flat. As she wobbles down the dirt track, Aaron and George Kane, out for a joyride in their truck, happen upon her. Aaron uses the truck...
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George intervenes, retrieving the bicycle and telling Aaron to leave Sissy alone. Instead, Aaron stomps on...
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...the Kane boys or their father Joe. He doesn’t believe Aaron’s claim that he and George are trying to help Sissy, but Sissy is too scared to tell Bill that Aaron...
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Chapter 8
...recognition. He snarls at Odette, and she grabs a knife from a nearby table. But George bursts into the room before she can strike. He begs Odette to leave before Aaron...
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Chapter 10
...says that the Kanes all have “bad blood” and need to be stopped. Thinking of George—and Sissy—Odette says that not all of them are bad, and she urges Henry to be...
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Epilogue
...the Aboriginal cemetery, Sissy asks about Henry. Millie reports that he blew himself up—along with George and Aaron Kane—not long after Sissy and Odette left. Officially, it was listed as an...
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