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Rabbit-proof Fence Summary & Study Guide Description

Rabbit-proof Fence Summary & Study Guide includes comprehensive information and analysis to help you understand the book. This study guide contains the following sections:

•Plot Summary
•Chapters
•Important People
•Objects/Places

•Themes
•Style
•Quotes

This detailed literature summary also contains Topics for Discussion and a Free Quiz on Rabbit-proof Fence by Doris Pilkington Garimara.

Plot Summary Rabbit-Proof Fence by Doris Pilkington is the true story of the escape of three young girls from a settlement school they were forced to attend in Australia, over one thousand miles away from their families and homes. The three girls, along with many others, were mandated to be transferred to Moore River Settlement School, which was a school for half-caste Aborigine children. With the influx first of white raiders and pirates and then "peaceful" English settlers, there was a multitude of half-English children. The government considered these children a step above full-blooded Aborigine children and felt obliged to take them to schools where they could be educated. These youngsters were unceremoniously snatched from their families and carted off to these settlements. Molly, at fourteen, was the eldest of the three girls who are at the heart of the story. She, along with her relatives Gracie, eleven, and Daisy, just eight years old, were dismayed and frightened by their fate. Molly, a free-spirited girl and natural leader, decided on the evening before the first day of school that she and her two friends would control their own destiny. In the morning, she announced to the other two girls that they would be escaping. They were running the risk of being recaptured and punished. Anyone

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