most of Becke’s short stories are written about fish, fishing and his hometown; Port Macquarie, New South Wales. The story “The Sea “Salmon” Season in Australia” doesn’t really have a plot. It’s more of Becke’s feelings on the fishing season in Australia. No main characters are introduced through out the story; it’s more of a documentary through Becke’s perspective. It starts from the people’s perspective of their jobs, and hobbies and goes deep into the fish’s struggle for existence. The begging is when the look-out man at the pilot station is the first to see the salmon, and then all the villagers rush to their house and prepare for the fishing when it becomes dark. Becke describes all of these events with specific and accurate descriptions, because he was more of a wander in his child hood. At the age of 10 he ran away from home twice and probably spent the nights in the harbor watching the sea. He remembered those nights really well, and used them in his writings. As in the story, when he was describing a hundred or more yelling urchins, with stout lines fitted with many bait less hooks and weighted with a stone; As the swarming fish press steadily on within ten feet or less of the shore the children fling their lines across, and draw them quickly in. 

At the age of 16 Louis was a stowaway on a fishing ship heading from New South Wales to Samoa, a small island near Australia. In the story he uses “At night time the townspeople appear on the scene in boats with lanterns and spears, and for no other purpose than the mere love of useless slaughter kill the fish till their arms are exhausted.” To describe what he saw on his journey to Samoa. He wrote the story from the perspective of a human who feels sorry for the fish. Becke dose a wonderful job finishing his story, as the time of day is evening and pieces of salmon can be seen floating after the invasion of hundreds of sharks, and humans. Markets are opened full of salmon, the poorer class are cooking them at home, and some markets are trying to smoke the salmon. 

Becke had died of cancer on 18th of February 1913. He wrote “The Whale Cure” when he found out of his illness. He refers to the wale as a medicine he had to take while he had cancer. He starts the story saying that he has heard of a man cured of cancer. But it wasn’t easy for him. By saying “When a whale is killed and towed ashore (it does not matter whether it is a “right,” humpback, finback, or sperm whale) and while the interior of the carcase still retains a little warmth, a hole is out through one side of the body sufficiently large to admit the patient, the lower part of whose body from the feet to the waist should sink in the whale’s intestines, leaving the head, of course, outside the aperture.” He is saying that it doesn’t matter what type of cancer you have, it’s still cancer and it deepens into your body till it finally kills you. The passing out of the patients is to referred to how he is felt during his medication, due to he had not enough money for a better treatment, because his books and short stories weren’t really successful money wise. Louis Becke worked as a book holder at the age of 18. That job has turned his life into books. The life he lived was transformed into the stories he wrote.