...Ieesh M. Irving TANTH 365/ Autumn 2014 Film Response Watching Rabbit Proof Fence was not only enlightening but also appalling to have seen. I never heard of the atrocities that the aborigines experienced at the hands of the British government prior to this movie. The British government took oppression to another level. This was the story of how Molly, her sister Daisy, and cousin Gracie were stolen from their family and their dangerous expedition of returning home to their family. It features Mr. A.O. Neville, the Chief Protector of Aborigines, as the evil antagonist who believed that his mission was to protect the aborigines from themselves. This story told of some of the countless people that were part of “The Stolen Generation”, which are the children, which were labeled half-caste, that were taken from their Aborigine parent by the Australian government. This removal occurred between the early 1900’s up until the 1970’s. Not only did the Australian government The story begins in 1931 in west Australia. This is the time the Aborigines Act granted the government the authority to act as a legal guardian of every Aborigine in west Australia. This meant the government had control of who the Aborigines can meet or marry and where they work and lived. This gave Mr. Neville the power to remove half-caste children from their families. As a mother, I think that would be the cruelest thing you can do to a person; take their baby away from them. It would be easier to die rather...
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...The film rabbit proof fence is considered a landmark film and sits under this title by ensuring the film has used certain scenes to contribute towards the development of Australian identity and society. By analysing the film rabbit proof fence, it encourages me to believe that this particular scene has used a variety of film techniques such as using different camera shots and foregrounding ideologies throughout, that will contribute towards and further reinforce the attitudes, values and beliefs of Australian identity and society. Throughout the film rabbit proof fence the lead protagonist is considered to be molly, a young aboriginal girl who is taken away from her family along with her two sisters and put into a campus for aboriginal children at Moree river, but further throughout the film she manages to escape with her sisters and find her way back to her family who are hundreds of kilometres away, but somehow the one of the workers of the campus manages to find them in the end with the help of an expert aboriginal tracker and several more men out searching for molly and her two sisters. Throughout this film molly is proved a hero and is characterized as a brave girl who is determined to take extreme...
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...A heart-breaking movie In the mid 1930´s the Australian continent wants to breed out the aboriginal race and the man for the job is Mr. Neville, who is prepared to use any inhuman method to achieve his goal. He firmly believes in separating the half caste children from their aboriginal parents and shifting them to the Moore River Native Settlement .This Settlement is run by nuns in a strictly religious way in order to give these children also a good chance to live as the "better" white Australians. Molly, Gracie and Daisy are 3 such children who are torn away from their mothers and sent forcibly to the Settlement 1200 miles away. Molly misses her mother terribly and is determined to return to her village. The story of her escape and the long arduous journey home is what the film is all about. The film starts straight away, without much dilly dallying. Mr. Neville seems to be perfectly suited for the role. As for Daisy one longs to take her in his arms and wish away her sorrows. Sometimes I could not quite much decipher the distant expressions on Molly´s face. What surprised me was Molly's rare maturity for a 14 year old girl and the way she used really ingenious tricks to outwit her chasers for e.g. the trick wearing socks over her shoes to hide her tracks. It´s only towards the end that the girls are shown suffering from the rigorous of their journey, making the trek on foot through 1000 miles look relatively easy, as they never get lost nor do they suffer...
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...Nine- thirty P.M. Circe’s cousin pulls up in a jet black hummer, and gosh, I have never seen such a beautiful car. Out steps a familiar face. “Shut UP!” Blake yells repeated smacking me. I turn around and so does everyone else. “Oh my god it-” Claire begins, “Crank That Frank!” Ana yells. “Circe why have you never told us this important information!” Claire yells at him. “Well, you never asked.” He says laughing. “Well, are you guys coming or not?” He asks opening the door for us. “Heck-to-the-yeah!” Blake says climbing to the back seat. Claire climbs in after her, followed by Ana. I stand there. For some reason, my feet won’t move. A feel of despair and terror overwhelms me. Something’s not right, something is going to happen….but what? I think to myself. I get these feels and something usually does go wrong, the last time it was my cat dying and the time before that it was my father dying, I remain standing there. “ Come on EM, get it already! You're wasting moonlight!” She says laughing. “Something doesn’t feel right, I don’t think we should go. Let’s head back.” I say. “ Em, you are being stupid and paranoid. You can’t ruin the night for all of us!” She says, “You can either join us or we are leaving you.” she adds on. I stand there and I finally decide to get in, I can’t let my friends down. Little did I know, I should have listened. For the first forty-five minutes, we drive around LA arguing about where we should go. Blake wants to go to a fashion-a-thon, Claire...
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...Examine the ways in which at least two texts, one of which must be Rabbit Proof Fence, depict the suffering endured by Indigenous Australians. Introduction The removal of Aboriginal children from their families and homes resulted in the abuse of innocent children, as they struggled for identity, and the beginning of the ‘Stolen Generation’. The consequences of these acts are clearly captured within Philip Noyce’s ‘Rabbit-Proof Fence’, and Archie Roach’s ‘Took the Children Away’. In Rabbit Proof Fence, the viewer clearly captures mistreatment of Aboriginal girls through the settlement at Moore River and Mavis the maid. In the song, ‘Took the Children Away’, many of the lyrics illustrate the suffering placed on the children....
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...Film Comparison The power and intrigue of a story is determined by the subject matter, and how that subject matter is presented. People who make films have the freedom to manipulate any story, or subject matter. Films which portray real historical, and personal events need to be viewed with the understanding that the form of the film needs to coincide with the content in order for it to be credible. The film Tarnation is a documentary film about a man’s life. John Caouette combines hours of filmed footage from his life. Home movies, photographs from before he was born, answering machine tapes, snippets of short films, and 1980’s pop culture come together to create a fast paced, unsettling, tragic, and dramatic story. This part documentary, part narrative tells the story of his life, and how every aspect of it was affected by the mental instability that his mother experienced from a very young age. Tarnation deals with the themes of family, rape, child abuse, drug addiction, promiscuity, abandonment, and psychosis. The form of the film takes on a very dramatic, and anxious feel. A lot of the footage is shown in fast and short clips. There are times when videos cut in and out at a speed that relates to which part of John’s life is being portrayed. This diary in the form of a movie is raw and emotional. The chaos, and aggressiveness is portrayed not only through the events in John’s life, but the form of the film. The editing of the footage shown in this movie...
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...Asad Mehmood APHuG Mrs. Young 11-3-11 Rabbit Proof Fence Essay Particularly in Australia, rabbits are a huge problem. Since their introduction in the 19th century Rabbits are suspected of being the most significant known factor in species loss in Australia. Rabbits often kill young trees in orchards, forests and on properties by ringbarking them. Rabbits are also responsible for serious erosion problems as they eat native plants, leaving the topsoil exposed and vulnerable to sheet, gully and wind erosion. The removal of this topsoil is devastating to the land as it takes many hundreds of years to regenerate. With mild winters, rabbits were able to breed the entire year. With widespread farming, areas that may have been scrub or woodlands were instead turned into vast areas with low vegetation, creating ideal habitat for rabbits. Thus, rabbit proof fences were created with the purpose of keeping rabbits out of agricultural, pastoral land in Western Australia. There are three fences in Western Australia. The fences took six years to build. The fences were constructed with different materials due to the local climate, and wood. Folk and Pop culture are represented in this film as being two distinguished worlds that the Indigenous Australian girls go through. The girls of course live in the folk culture aspect of society, where there is very little interaction from outside influences and they live life peacefully and traditionally. However, that all changes when they...
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...The concept of belonging highlights our needs of acceptance through relationships and communities. This is clearly exemplified through Peter Skrzynecki’s Immigrant Chronicle (1975), which depicts the challenge of developing a sense of belonging. Peter Skrzynecki has evidently communicated this to the responder through ‘Migrant Hostel’ and ’10 Mary Street’. The novel ‘Rabbit Proof Fence’ by Doris Pilkington, 1996, effectively improves on these ideas, where the protagonist, Molly, lacks a sense of security. Each composer has used a variety of techniques to convey a sense of belonging. Peter Skryznecki portrays a lack of belonging through the poem, ‘Migrant Hostel’. It explores the dislocation and insecurity the migrants feel. This is stated through the simile “nationalities sought each other out instinctively like a homing pigeon” as it highlights the desire that the immigrants felt they needed to seek familiarity. Despite the fact that they were in a new environment that didn’t offer a strong sense of comfort, they chose to establish their own sense of belonging through other migrants of the same culture. Whilst this promotes a sense of belonging, it also means that the migrants isolated themselves from other groups of the hostel. This is mainly due to memories of “hunger and hate” which emphasis the fact that they are haunted by their past which is an example of alliteration. Peter Skryznecki shows a connection with a sense of belonging involved with the migrants. In...
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...FSA 2012 – 9. kl. Engelsk Emner: sider: Topic 1: Australia 8,1 ns - The Lucky Country (Piece of Cake 3) 1,0 - The Opal People (Piece of Cake 3) 0,5 - Coober Pedy, Australia – Videoclip http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRU--4CmH50 - Australian English (Piece of Cake 3) 0,8 - My trip to the Great Barrier Reef (Piece of Cake 3) 0,5 - The Great Barrier Reef – Videoclip http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yw_WjN-4n3U&feature=related - I Sentence You to … Go to Australia (Piece of Cake 3) 0,8 - My Boomerang (Piece of Cake 3) 0,5 - Film: Rabbit Proof Fence - Rabbit Proof Fence – Historicel Context 4,0 http://www.curriculumsupport.education.nsw.gov.au/secondary/hsie/aboriginal6/assets/pdf/rabbitproof.pdf (p. 1-5) Topic 2: Growing up 8,3 ns - Shelly Robinson (Piece of Cake 3) 2,3 - James Coia (Piece of Cake 3) 1,7 - Finally I did it (PS Sprog nr. 5 2008) 1,5 - Please, write back (Piece of Cake 3) 2,8 - Film: Romeo & Juliet Topic 3: Racism, Prejudice, Discrimination 8,0 ns -Friends across the divide (PS Praktisk Sprog 3/2011) 1,7 - Martin Luther King Jr. (Festivals) 2,9 - Passport to Apartheid (Passport to South Africa) 1,2 - The Struggle agaist Apartheid (Passport to South Africa) 1,2 - Nelson Mandela (http://www.famouspeoplelessons.com/n/nelson_mandela.html) 1,0 - Film: Good-bye, Bafana Topic 4: Glimpses of the USA 9,6 - The Amish...
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...Socialisation &Feral Children Summary In this lecture we learned about socialisation and Wild or Feral children. The class started off with a question asking what we believed feral children were and what we thought socialisation consisted of. It seemed apparent that about half of the class were aware of what feral children were with the majority having an idea of what socialisation is. To explain to the class fully we were more than told what the meaning was but also shown videos to show the extent of the meaning. We learned that feral children we raised with no or minimal human interaction which resulted in them growing up basically alienated from human culture or lacking in socialisation skills. The video clips we watched showed harrowing examples of stories about feral children. For instance Oxana a girl from the Ukraine who lived for years with a pack of wild dog, the video clip showed her on all fours acting like a dog. We also learned of girl called Genie who was held captive alone in a dark room from the age of 1 to 13 by her father. She rarely saw other human beings and was spoon fed soft food which she could barely survive on. When she was discovered she could not walk, talk or stand up and was not toilet trained. We then discussed how once she was rescued how she struggled to adapt to socialisation and now lives in sheltered accommodation. There were numerous other examples given with the authenticity of some open to debate but all came back to the same point...
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...community’s expectations and languages. Additionally, it is important for learning to teach local histories because it is more relevant to the students (McKeich 2009, p. 69). The process of writing an Acknowledgement of Country with the assistance of the local community is a powerful way of incorporating the histories and building relationships and trust with the local ATSI community. A third way to incorporate the histories and cultures into the classroom curriculum is through student interpretation of a historical movie from an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander perspective, such as 'Rabbit Proof Fence' (Noyce 2002). The incorporation would be two-fold: first through the window and mirror effect referred to by Sims-Bishop (1990) and second, through the observation then internalisation of the histories and cultures through the process of analysis (Atwell 2010). Texts such as Rabbit Proof Fence are the cultural 'windows and mirrors' for students because students can learn about another culture through a window, and see their own culture reflected and validated in the mirror (Sims-Bishop 1990, p. ix cited in Price (ed.) 2012, p. 156). There is reluctance from some teachers to use this and similar methods because it may appear a tokenistic effort to incorporate indigenous histories and cultures into the classroom curriculum (Shipp 2013). This fear can be overcome because incorporation can be done in a meaningful way (Shipp 2013). Students can engage in critical analysis, reasoning...
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...should improve the economic, education and living conditions for Aboriginal people. In this essay will be discussed the government did wrong in the past. Next, a discussion the process of reconciliation, the way they have improved the relationship with Aboriginal Australian people. Finally will talk about why the apology is not enough for Aboriginal people. In order to discuss what the government did wrong thing in the past, we need to understand what the stolen generation is. The stolen generation describe the event where the Aboriginal children were forcibly removed from their families by the government and assimilated into white society (Korff, 2015). In the past the white government did make many mistakes. According the movie ‘Rabbit Proof Fence’ (2000), there was a scene where the Aboriginal children’s mother who saw the government car driven by the white policemen coming. The Aboriginal mother takes her children away and runs quickly, but the Aboriginal children still get taken by the policemen. It shows that the white government used the brutal methods to get the Aboriginal children. This way done to achieve the white people way of life by taking their life away...
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...In the excerpts, Behind the Beautiful Forevers by Catherine Boo and Rabbit Proof Fence by Doris Pilkington, both authors show examples of characters facing challenges. Pilkington shows the challenges best by using foreshadowing, juxtaposition, and tone while Boo uses figurative language, details, and descriptions. Pilkington uses juxtaposition to convey the challenges the characters faced. The excerpt states: “Birds twittering” and “Anguished cries.” (Pilkington 197 198). The author changes the text from using a positive environment to an unsafe or negative environment. This shows that in their tribe, the environment can change any second, and they have to be prepared for everything. On the other hand, Boo doesn’t use juxtaposition and...
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...Aboriginal parents say that their children are their future, and so their education determine the future of the students, that would affect their family and the whole school community ( p.86). For this reason, I believe that it is the teacher's responsibility to make the difference in their life, thus the paradigm could be changed. I would expand my knowledge about Aboriginal history, cultures and contemporary issues in order to integrate them into the curriculum for all the students, and thus to improve the participation and outcome of Aboriginal students (p.60). I would promote multiculturalism. This would enhance students' self-concepts and contribute to the development of mutual respect and understanding ( ). I believe that it is my responsibility...
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...In both excerpts from, Behind the Beautiful Forevers by Katherine Boo and Rabbit Proof-Fence by Doris Pilkington, both authors show examples of characters facing challenges. However, Boo shows the challenges best by using figurative language, details and description. The author Boo uses figurative language to convey the challenges. For example, “And Abdul crouched on the maidan, beginning to sort two weeks’ worth of purchased trash, a stained shirt hitching up his knobby spine” (Boo 209). This is to say that the author uses figurative language to show how poor and poverty stricken Abdul and his family are. On the other hand Pilkington does not do the best job. For example, ”They were shot by the white raiders when they tried to stop them...
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