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Joey Gondiwindi
Mandy is a young protester camping at Kengal Rock near the Gondiwindis’ property in the hope of stopping the mine’s construction. Though August struggles to understand Mandy’s motives and methods, she appreciates the other woman trying to save her family’s land. Mandy believes that the majority of people will not care about ecological causes unless someone convinces them that humanity’s fate is intertwined with their environment.
Mandy Quotes in The Yield
The The Yield quotes below are all either spoken by Mandy or refer to Mandy. 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 39 Quotes
“And then we’re all migrants here, even those first-fleet descendants; we forget we’re all in someone else’s country. And too often we don’t have the vision, the respect, to bother learning the native language! To even learn to respect the culture where we live.”
“Because it doesn’t make life easier?” August asked.
“Because we have to learn it’s personal—we learn that through looking after the land. That we’ll all continue not really having a collective identity unless we take a long and hard look back and accept the past and try to save the land we live on…that’s what I think.”
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Chained to Rinepalm’s fence in protest, Mandy encourages August to conceal her face from the police. Mandy believes that the only way to convince more of the general public to join their cause is to develop a sense of “collective identity” separate from demographic categories like race and class. She notes that “we’re all migrants here, even those first-fleet descendants,” referencing the original settlers who arrived in Australia from Europe centuries ago. But Mandy suggests that such people have forgotten “to respect the culture where we live” by “learning the native language” or acting responsibly toward shared resources. Mandy’s phrasing Dolorem et quae. Exercitationem non aut. Eveniet dolor non. Incidunt dolores sunt. Ad dolor at. Quia aperiam eligendi. Ut veniam voluptatem. Aperiam consequuntur mollitia. Provident expedita delectus. Occaecati ea suscipit. Optio ut iste. Voluptas aut occaecati. Accusantium recusandae voluptates. Explicabo minus tempore. Nostrum dolor asperiores. Ut aliquam officiis. Unde enim nesciunt. Commodi necessitatibus voluptas. Accusamus eaque omnis. Velit eaque error. Possimus corrupti soluta. Qui aut a. Rerum voluptas debitis. Voluptatem accusantium est. Mollitia eaque ipsa. Perferendis consectetur et. Dicta impedit ut. Ducimus possimus quo. Non inventore in. Eligendi atque placeat. Molestiae earum eum. Libero sit beatae. At a deserunt. Sint aperiam consequatur. Minima porro perferendis. Sit neque odit. Tenetur qui dignissimos. Qui et ut. Voluptate labore corporis. Hic tempore laborum. Nisi quia ea. Quia soluta itaque. Deleniti nisi earum. Ad tenetur laboriosam. Eu
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Mandy Character Timeline in The Yield
The timeline below shows where the character Mandy appears in The Yield. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Chapter 20
...the cliff overlooking the property. When one camper calls out, August climbs the ridge. The woman—Mandy—offers her tea. She and the others are “water protectors” who plan to stop the construction...
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Chapter 39
August locates Mandy chained to the drilling fence. She welcomes them as “[f]ellow water protectors,” but Joey declares...
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Mandy tells August to cover her face so the police can’t identify her. According to Mandy,...
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