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write an argumentative essay on Ned Kelly being a victim.

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Ned Kelly. It was said that the very mention of his name petrified the police and the public. But a majority of others would agree that they saw him as a beacon of hoped someone who brought light to the injustice and unfairness of the Victorian Police. There is a lot of controversy over whether Ned was believed to be a hero, a villain or a victim. Some people would label him a villains someone who terrorized the lives of the people. Others would agree that he was a hero someone who stood up in what he believed in and gave to the poor. But he was neither; he was only ever a victim. If you look back and read through history, you would find the pages of evidence outlining the numerous reasons why Ned Kelly was the horrendous person everyone thought he was. But there is also evidence that shows that Ned was not a bad persons but rather, a good person who went down a bad path. Yes, Ned’s actions don’t label him as a hero, but those actions in itself are heroic.

As a young boy, Ned had no direction. His father had recently died and his only role models were his ‘larrikin uncles and relatives with a history of crime. Despite young Ned getting off at a bad start, he was also a fearless horse rider and a boy who not

only wanted to help his family survive, but was also known as a local hero when he saved a boy from drowning. At the start of the book “Black snakes the Daring of Ned Kelly – it states that Ned had a habit of stealing horses before bringing them back to their original owners and demanding for a reward. It also speaks of how Ned became an apprentice bushranger to Harry Power raiding highway travellers of their goods. Some people might see this act as reckless and mischievous and they were right to do so- but what they don’t see is how utterly desperate Ned was to help his family survive. He cared about his family so much to the point where he was willing to steal. He was willing to turn to crime. Many people would argue that turning to crime is not the right solution, but in Ned’s defence his family was living in such horrible and unpleasant conditions that Ned had absolutely no choice! Imagine you and your family squashed into a small home with barely enough food and water to get by. Ned knew this and he decided that to help his family, he would result to extreme measurements. After all, don’t extreme times call for extreme solutions?

There is also proof that Ned and his family were harassed by the police all his life. At the age of 15, he was drawn into a highway fight and was charged with ‘vicious assault. Even after claiming his innocence, the police merely ignored him and he ended up serving six months in prison for a crime that had nothing to do with him! He was also said to spend two and a half years in prison a harsh sentence for an unintentional crime of only receiving a stolen horse. What the rivals of Ned Kelly fail to realise is that after Ned was let out of prison, he really did try. He spent three years living an honest life with multiple jobs meaning that for three years, he temporarily ended his life of crime. But of course, the Victorian police couldn’t accept that! They weren’t able to swallow down the fact that Ned was trying to put his bad past behind him and start anew. Instead of letting him and his family be, they watched his every move and blamed him for crimes that he wasn’t guilty of committing! This goes to show that the police were biased, narrows minded and discriminatory. How on earth could Ned have lived a peaceful and honest life if every single time he looked over his shoulder, a police would be there with both guns loaded and aimed at his forehead? How could he continue this life of toil when nobody believed his actions were pure and not those of criminal? The answer is- he couldn’t! And so, he was driven to the life of a bushranger.

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