Quotes/EVIDENCE for Stolen Jane Harrison: 1. “Don’t need no home of me own. Got enough to do”- Ruby. 2. “I carry my home with me”- Sandy 3. “I’m gonna be a grandmother”- Shirley 4. “I want my mummy”- Ruby 5. “Where are you”- Ruby 6. “What about my fish”- Sandy 7. “Sandy‚ run….. Always on the run”- Sandy’s mum and Sandy 8. “It’s the only time I’ve ever seen a black baby go blue”- Sandy’s aunt 9. “Willy?... Jimmy!”- Jimmy and Anne 10. “I promised not to tell”- Ruby 11. “I’m coming back for you… I
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Jane Harrison • The concept of belonging as it relates to Indigenous Australians can be confronting and challenging. • Many Indigenous Australians were often ’not belonging’ and this play is important in raising awareness and educating a broader audience. • You must take into consideration Harrison’s context and your own context to appreciate how Harrison interprets belonging and how you respond to her perception of belonging. • Perceptions and context are both interconnected as our perception
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Stolen! What if you were ‘stolen’ from your family… but the kidnappers thought they had ‘rescued’ you? The kidnapper/s then tried to brainwash you to make you like them and eventually you started to be confused about what the truth was … These are the conflicting perspectives that I have experienced in my chosen text which is a stage play called ‘Stolen’ written by Jane Harrison. What makes this text more frightening is the fact that the scenario is real and that it happened in our own backyard
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Essay Sample Stolen Stolen by Jane Harrison‚ depicts the broken lives of five children; Ruby‚ Sandy‚ Anne‚ Shirley andJimmy; and in doing so‚ portrays a myriad of personal experiences of those living in AustralianSociety. Harrison does this through the skilful use of dramatic techniques‚ which are used to conveyvarious personal experiences‚ such as Sexual Abuse and Personal Identity‚ and it is through theseexperiences in which Harrison demonstrates the personal experiences of the Stolen Generation
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In rainbow’s end‚ the author Jane Harrison uses different types of technique to explore the sense of belonging about Aboriginal People. Stage direction is used to show the actors action and reaction. For example‚ in the bank manager’s office‚ through 5 stage directions to show Gladys determined to give her daughter a better life. “Gladys who’s all dressed up” “she pulls out of her bag a special certificate for punctuation” “she stares him down” all her action in response to Bank manager’s concerns
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End by Jane Harrison Related text The sapphires The instinctive need for humanity to belong is through acceptance of one through relationships and their social status in society. When an individual seeks acceptance in the wider world in order to belong‚ it is up to them as to whether or not they are accepting of others. This idea is challenged as society is the boundary preventing an individual from trying to belong. This notion is expressed throughout the play Rainbows End by Jane Harrison and the
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This form of belonging is clearly evident in the play ‘rainbows end’ by Jane Harrison and how the aboriginal community have a sense of belonging in their small community and a large sense of not belonging with the white society‚ this sense of inclusions is also evident in the poem ‘l gave myself to him’ by Emily Dickinson‚ which explores a women’s wanting of acceptance from her husband and her constant feeling of an object rather than a human. Throughout people’s lives not belonging causes people
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Stolen Dialogue reveals how spoken language expresses meaning not only at the spoken level but through the implied meaning. It can be said that what’s left out of a conversation is sometimes more important than what is put in. Jane Harrison’s Stolen is an honest and compassionate play that follows the lives of five aboriginal kids who have been stolen from their families as part of the governments’ assimilationist agenda. Harrison employs a range of theatrical and written techniques to highlight
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“It was not the children that were stolen‚ but their soul.” Discuss. Jane Harrison’s novel Stolen shows how children’s souls are stolen and the tragic effects of it. The main five characters‚ representing Stolen Generations which refers to the children being taken away from their Aboriginal family‚ had different life experiences. It is their experiences reflect their stolen souls‚ including loss of culture‚ misunderstanding of personal identity and destroyed emotional and spiritual world. There
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The process of belonging occurs when the individual develops relationships with people and challenge themselves to be part of the community and gain experiences which enrich the connections with society. In Jane Harrison’s Rainbow’s End‚ the protagonists struggle to gain a sense of acceptance within the White community but they demonstrate their willingness to challenge the social norms in order to define and protect their Indigenous community. In Tara June Winch’s Swallow the Air‚ the protagonist
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