7.2 The varying experiences of the Stolen Generations Dreamtime: the time of the creation of the earth‚ living things and the beginning of knowledge‚ from which emerged the laws‚ values and symbols important to Aboriginal society. Stolen Generations: term used to describe the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders who‚ while children‚ Australian state and federal governments forcibly removed from their families. The term usually refers to those taken during the period from about 1910 to around 1970
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reject their Indigenous heritage and to adopt white culture. Their names were often changed‚ and they were forbidden to speak their traditional languages. It is evident how much pain and suffering was caused from this‚ when watching the film‚ Rabbit Proof Fence. In the film‚ there is a recurring motif of pain and trauma. Mr Neville (also called Mr devil)‚ shown to be in charge of organising the removal‚ was given the title of Chief Protector of Aborigines. From the name of his title it is shown that
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SPEECH Good morning ……. My question to you is “Why are our morals and values such an integral part of our life?”[PAUSE]. Well the answer is that it defines who are and what we want to be in life. We strive to express our identity in the search for belonging to the places and the people we desire to be with but as we all know‚ life can throw unexpected events in the times of struggle between ourselves and our loved ones. * Why do we always seem to return to the people that matters the most
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The film‚ Rabbit Proof Fence communicates and connects deeply with the viewers’ knowledge‚ response and feelings deeply towards the injustice of the Stolen Generation. Rabbit Proof Fence‚ sympathises the viewer with the Aborigines‚ sharing the atmosphere of hopeless‚ powerlessness and loss‚ bringing out its significance in its message. The power of sympathy‚ kinship‚ bonds and injustice were used throughout the film to bias the viewers. Rabbit Proof Fence focuses on many of these
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famous to the other. Since "famous" is being described in several different situations‚ Naomi is offering her audience several distinct perspectives of it. By mentioning lines such as "the river is famous to the fish" and "the cat sleeping on the fence is famous to the birds" she draws readers to her thesis that there are several reasons for something/someone to stand out to someone/something else; there’s not just one way that someone becomes famous to someone else. For instance‚ the river is only
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Attempted Aboriginal Genocide in Rabbit Proof Fence The exploitation and colonizing of the Australian Aborigines by the British settlers in the early 20th century is evident through Rabbit-Proof Fence by Doris Pilkington. Historical background information has provided a deeper understanding into the “stolen generations”; hence‚ we further understand the struggles Daisy‚ Molly‚ Gracie and their families had to go through. The kidnapping of these children to brainwash them of their language‚ tradition
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in Rabbit Proof Fence‚ Molly’s journey home to Jigalong is a journey from childhood to adulthood‚ which challenges her physically‚ emotionally and intellectually. Through the many obstacles Molly encounters and overcomes‚ she begins to understand her personal strength‚ allowing her the ability to mature and become independent. The geographical distance alone created a physical and emotional exhaustion and frustration which Molly tolerates with maturity and strength. The cinematic technique using
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Analyse how important techniques are used to engage your emotions in the RPF Rabbit Proof Fence is a bio pic film based on three Aboriginal girls living in Western Australia during the time of the Stolen Generation in the 1930’s. The director Phillip Noyce purpose of creating this film was to inform the audience of the way these Aboriginal children and their families were treated. Throughout the film Noyce successfully uses a range of important techniques such as music‚ dialogue‚ and camera techniques
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Rabbit Proof Fence: There are two ways to connect the Mockingbird walking in someone else’s shoes’’ theme in RPF the film. The first is of course how the Australian society did not believe that aboriginals were proper people and deserved the same rights as the European whites did in those days. This is because they lived in the bush and had no civilized way of living‚ according to the white perspective. Families were split up and children were taken to places where they would grow up and learn
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Rabbit Proof Fence has been published both as a book and as a movie. Being a reader or a viewer entirely changes our point of view on the story. As a reader‚ we get descriptive insight on the situations and emotions of the characters. We are then able to re-create these visually using our imagination and have endless freedom doing so. As a viewer‚ our creativity is somewhat restricted. We do not imagine the characters’ physical appearance‚ the locations or the overall situations in the same way as
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