Wednesday, February 11, 2009

Rabbit Proof Fence


In the book rabbit proof fence the author is telling a story of how Europeans came to Australia and calmed it as their own. Even though for over hundreds of years the Aboriginal people had lived in Australia cut off from the rest of the world. Doris Pilkington is of aboriginal descent, in the book she writes she shows no strong anger towards the Europeans for taking the land from her ancestors. I think that she is just trying to tell a story through the book. She’s not trying to make it like the Europeans are evil people who destroyed her people or that her ancestors where uncivilized people. She is putting facts with the story showing what happened in a calm way. She isn’t choosing sides in anyway she all she wants to do is tell the story. She wants people to enjoy her reading that has informational facts without them being more lop sided with one part then the other. That is why she is so neutral when writing this book she wants to tell a story not pick a fight or anything like that.

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  1. Do you think that when people "enjoy" the story, they are more or less likely to accept an opinion? While Pilkington has a neutral "tone," she may or may not be actually neutral towards the settlement of Anglo-Australians in her family's territory. KG

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