(Bad, Bad, Don'T Bother Reading)Rabbit Proof Fence Essay
Submitted by freefortermpapers on 06/24/2008 03:00 PM
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(Bad, Bad, Don'T Bother Reading)Rabbit Proof Fence Essay
Rabbit Proof Fence is the depiction of a true story, revolving around three Aboriginal children, snatched from their families in the 1930s, and taken to a remote facility at Moore River to be trained' as white Christian servants, as were hundreds of Aboriginal children that came under the care of Mr. Neville who was Chief Protector of all the Aborigines of Western Australia for 25 years. The film traces Molly, Gracie and Daisy's journey to Moore River, and home again.
As Molly, Gracie and Daisy are thrown into this strange, new world they have expectations thrust upon them. They are expected to accept and adopt the god that whites had created, and discard their religion and beliefs. They are expected to speak the language that whites created and discard their native tongue. They are expected to dress in coarse, bland, mass-produced clothes whites created and discard thoughts of non-conformity. They are expected to forget their families. They are expected to conform. They are expected to have Aryan aspirations.
The audience may note while watching the beginning of the film that a lot of children are not trying to escape. One may assume that this is because they had worse lives before being stolen, but it is doubtful because there are few situations worse than being an oppressed child with a future of being a slave. A more realistic reason would be that they were just unfortunate children, too afraid to stand up to, or defy the system which had wronged them. It is unlikely that many people of today would be able to do any more than what the children who did not try to escape did, so it is hard to expect daring escapes from all of these young children.
One of the most obvious matters in Rabbit Proof Fence is that the children were treated as no more than a deformity, or a wrongness, something to be bred out. A third, unwanted race, as the man in charge of all the aborigines' fate in his region, put it. His full-blood,...
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