Walkabout and Rabbit Proof Fence have the same group of people, Aborigines. This group of people are from Western and Northern Australia. Aborigines are Australia's indigenous people. Recent government statistics counted approximately 400,000 aboriginal people, or about 2% of Australia's total population. Their race is dieing out quickly.
In Walkabout, a boy and a girl just survived in a plane crash. They landed somewhere in Western Australia. They were coming from South Carolina to Australia to see their uncle who lives in Adelaide, which is in southern Australia. After walking around for sometime, the kids meet the bush boy, who is on his walkabout. A walkabout is a rite of passage during which male Aborigine would undergo a journey during adolescence and live in the wilderness for a period as long as six months. He helps the kids, Mary and Peter, to find their uncle.
Rabbit Proof Fence is about three "half-caste" girls Molly, Gracie, and Daisy, who are taken from their home and forced into Moore River Native Settlement. These officials believed that assimilation could be achieved through a period of "identity reorientation" which ensured that children only spoke English, had little contact with "full bloods", including members of their own family and Aboriginal customs, and were schooled in European beliefs and customs such as Christianity, and domestic and laboring duties. After being there for only one day, the girls escape to go back to Jigalong. Rabbit Proof Fence is the story of their incredible 2400-kilometer journey home.
I thought this book and movie were very heart touching. Although I enjoyed the movie more, the book was still enjoyable. Walkabout and Rabbit Proof Fence (RBF) were both easy to understood what was going even though Walkabout was a book and RBF was a movie. I would love to see the movie "Walkabout" and read the book "Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence" by Doris Pilkington, Molly's daughter. Walkabout and RBF really opened my eyes about the Aborigines.
In Walkabout, a boy and a girl just survived in a plane crash. They landed somewhere in Western Australia. They were coming from South Carolina to Australia to see their uncle who lives in Adelaide, which is in southern Australia. After walking around for sometime, the kids meet the bush boy, who is on his walkabout. A walkabout is a rite of passage during which male Aborigine would undergo a journey during adolescence and live in the wilderness for a period as long as six months. He helps the kids, Mary and Peter, to find their uncle.
Rabbit Proof Fence is about three "half-caste" girls Molly, Gracie, and Daisy, who are taken from their home and forced into Moore River Native Settlement. These officials believed that assimilation could be achieved through a period of "identity reorientation" which ensured that children only spoke English, had little contact with "full bloods", including members of their own family and Aboriginal customs, and were schooled in European beliefs and customs such as Christianity, and domestic and laboring duties. After being there for only one day, the girls escape to go back to Jigalong. Rabbit Proof Fence is the story of their incredible 2400-kilometer journey home.
I thought this book and movie were very heart touching. Although I enjoyed the movie more, the book was still enjoyable. Walkabout and Rabbit Proof Fence (RBF) were both easy to understood what was going even though Walkabout was a book and RBF was a movie. I would love to see the movie "Walkabout" and read the book "Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence" by Doris Pilkington, Molly's daughter. Walkabout and RBF really opened my eyes about the Aborigines.
The end goal was to "breed out" the race, slowly mixing them with the main population.home fencing
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