Based on a true story, the book is a personal account of an indigenous australian familys experiences as members of the stolen generation the forced removal of mixedrace children from their families during the early 20th century. They called it the rabbit proof fence, and it stretched fully 1500 kilometers from the burning hot northwest to the cool and rainy south of the great continent. Major edmund lockyer with a detachment of eighteen soldiers from the 93rd regiment and fifty convicts were sent to king george sound where albany is now situated by governor darling in new south wales, to establish a military base. One such film is rabbit proof fence, directed by phillip noyce and based on the nonfiction book follow the rabbit proof fence by doris pilkington garimara. Building a fence to keep the rabbits out proved to be.
It was a typical response by the white people to a problem of their own making. Fencer wire 16 gauge galvanized rabbit guard garden fence 40 inch x 50 ft. Follow the rabbitproof fence background gradesaver. The remarkable true story of three young girls who cross the ha. In rabbit proof fence, awardwining author doris pilkington traces the story of her mother, molly, one of three young girls uprooted from their community in southwestern australia and taken to the moore river native settlement. Follow the rabbitproof fence study guide litcharts. Rabbitproof fence is a 2002 australian drama film directed and produced by phillip noyce based on the book follow the rabbitproof fence. Australias stolen generation mapped in doris pilkingtons. Rabbitproof fence is the short, but completely captivating story of three girls escape from a halfcaste aboriginal centre and their epic, long walk home back to their families. Read the extract from the book and summarise the sequence of events 150 words. Tenax 5a030001 guardian warning barrier, 4 x 100, green. Pdf this essay analyzes how contemporary australian aboriginal storytelling. This is an australian film based on the book follow the rabbitproof fence by doris pilkington garimara. Yardgard 308376b garden rabbit fence 28 inch x 50 foot, green pack of 2 yikai 40 inches x 82 feet 19gauge green pvc welded wire garden fence with 0.
The first several chapters is leadup to the escape of three girls from a settlement school which, by law, they were forced to attend. Follow the rabbitproof fence by doris pilkington, nugi garimara. Since that time, the rabbitproof fence has seen far less rabbit traffic than it once did. But, for those hours, you will live and breathe the lives of these tenacious and brave girls completely. It was and is an incredible monument to folly of man, for the rabbits soon managed to dig beneath the rabbit proof fence and spread to the sheep lands, where they ate the grass that fed the animals that fed the men. Follow the rabbitproof fence by doris pilkington, nugi. Although the rabbitproof fence exists to this day, in the 1950s the government introduced myxomatosis a disease that affects rabbits to australia in a successful attempt to devastate the continents rabbit population. Follow the rabbitproof fence literary elements gradesaver.
They knew that once they reached billanooka station, it was simply a matter of following the rabbitproof fence to their final destination, the jigalong government depot. The follow the rabbitproof fence community note includes chapterbychapter summary and analysis, character list. This is an extract from a novel, follow the rabbit proof fence, which tells the story of three teenage aboriginal girls. The strange case of arthur upfield and snowy rowles. The novel alludes to carralup settlement near katanning in the southwest and the moore river. Doris pilkington garimara s book, follow the rabbitproof fence 1996, describes the use of the fence in the 1930s by three indigenous australian girls to guide their route back home to jigalong. Doris pilkington garimara 1 2 she was born in 1937 as the daughter of molly craig and a stockman her mother left her at moore river native settlement at the age of three or four doris didnt see her mother again until she was 25 she was originally trained as a nurse. The film is definitely more moving than the book, mostly because of the. The rabbit proof fence is separated into nine chapters. Chapter one provides historical background on the main. Follow the rabbitproof fence follow the rabbitproof fence is an australian book by doris pilkington.
Rabbitproof fence was warmly received by both audiences and critics upon its release in 2002. Yardgard 308371b garden rabbit fence 28 inch x 50 foot, silver. As larissa behrendt notes in her book on the film, this is the film. This scene is critical to rabbitproof fence, reminding its audience. Summarise the sequence of events in the film scene 150 words. Rabbitproof fence by doris pilkington reading guidebook.
The follow the rabbitproof fence community note includes chapterbychapter summary and analysis, character list, theme list, historical. Set in 1931, the film describes the experience of three halfcaste girls, molly, gracie and daisy, who are forcibly removed from their family and community in jigalong and taken to the moore. The fence cut through the country from south to north. It is based on the book follow the rabbitproof fence by.
The incident is now referred to as the murchison murders. This book is simply written, but extremely evocative and can easily be read in a couple of hours. In 2005 the british film institute included it in the bfi list of the 50 films you should see by the. The true story of one of the greatest escapes of all time.
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