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"The journey not the arrival matters" Discuss this statement focusing on HOW the composers of your prescribed text and two related texts represent
the concept of journey. A physical journey involves both a beginning and ending. The beginning and ending is not what is important, in fact the journey
itself is important. Physical journeys involve movement to new places whilst incurring obstacles. A physical journey has many opportunities for its
travellers, these allow for physical, environmental and intellectual growth as they learn about themselves whilst overcoming challenges and learning
about the world around. This is shown through different techniques in the film 'Rabbit Proof Fence' directed by Phillip Noyce, The book cover...show
more content...
Noyce uses a shot of Constable Riggs driving rapidly down a dirt road to Jigalong to await their arrival. The girls are called home by the singing of
the female members of their aboriginal tribe. When the girls are reunited with their mother Noyce uses slow motion and music to increase the
emotional impact. This is then escalated when Molly says to her grandmother 'we lost one'. She feels as though she failed in her journey. The
closing scene is of a documentary which Molly and Daisy are walking through the desert. Noyce uses subtitles to inform the audience that their
journey didn't end at their reuniting with their mother and grandmother, the audience also learns that Gracie is now dead. The book cover 'Odyssey'
by Homer illustrated by Alan Baker uses title, vector lines, imagery and layout to represent the concept of journey and that 'the journey, not the
arrival matters'. Baker uses the title as the first thing that the reader's eyes capture; he does this by the use of very large font and positioning the title
in the middle of the page. The reader focuses on the word 'Odyssey', this represents a long journey. Baker also uses black writing on a white
background to ensure that it stands out. Alan Baker uses vector lines to show the importance of the journey. The vector lines start at the title and move
down and then back up again past the title. The journey
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Rabbit Proof Fence
Rabbit Proof Fence (2002) "Three little girls. Snatched from their mothers' arms. Spirited 1,500 miles away. Denied their very identity. Forced to adapt
to a strange new world. They will attempt the impossible. A daring escape. A run from the authorities. An epic journey across an unforgiving landscape
that will test their very will to survive. Their only resources, tenacity, determination, ingenuity and each other. Their one hope, find the rabbit–proof
fence that might just guide them home. A true story." (IMDB, Anonymous Review)
This movie takes place in Australia in the 1940s and 1950s. The movie is based on a true story that details how white people took Aborigines from
their families and attempted to breed them into white...show more content...
The 1990s witnessed further rights milestones, including government legislation that returned a great degree of autonomy, and increased wages and
welfare benefits to aboriginal people.
Figure 2: Kenneth Branagh as A.O. Neville
I am appalled that anyone would want to completely erase someone's culture. The treatment of Aborigines should be equal to the treatment of the rest
of Australian people. As aUnited States citizen, it is my belief that states, or countries, should be unified and treated as one by a single governing party.
The treatment of these people brings back to mind the terror and confusion during the Holocaust. Although not as intense or extreme, it is certainly a
similar situation where human beings are denied their personal rights of independence, mere existence, and happiness: "Aboriginal people should have
the opportunity of living without any limit on the exercise of their Australian citizenship, and on the equal terms with all other Australians" (Howson,
"Land Rights", quoting minister, Paul Hasluck, on the movement by the Methodist church). Humans desire a sense of belonging and religion is a key
factor in the pursuit of happiness. Regardless of what religion or beliefs, people must always have a sense of community which is founded in the
nation as a whole.
Figure 3: The girls being captured by a government official. I was not surprised, given the time this movie took place, that
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Rabbit Proof Fence Essay
Composers of texts use a number of individual (and combinations of several) techniques to reprensent the concept of the physical journey and
specifically that it is the journey, not the destination that matters. Noyce has used a number of filimic and literary techniques thoughout "Rabbit Proof
Fence" to ddo this. The use of symbolism, lighting, characterisation and camera angles all enable Noyce to express the physical journey being
explored. The cover of Kellehers' novel ______ uses visual techniques such as colour, blending and dark patches to convey the type of journey being
explored through his text. "Sweet Home Alabama" uses literary techniques such as symbolism, repetition and rhyme to express the journey being
undertaken by...show more content...
Camera angles are used by Noyce to explore the idea that it is the journey, not the destination that matters. The panning long shot of the horizon (used
at the commencement of the journey, when the three girls escape Moore River) is used to express the long difficult task at hand, and that in order to
arrive home, they must over come a harsh terrain and long journey. The use of such varying camera angles sis indicative that it is the actual journey
that matters, as oppose to the final destination.
The "Rabbit Proof Fence" plays two vital roles throughout the journey of Molly, Daisy and Gracie, and is reflective of the importance of the
journey. The fence is a representation of a map, as it is a symbol of home for the girls and provides a way in order for them to get home (following
the fence). What is later revealed is that the fence has actually proven to be an obstacle, and that they have followed the wrong fence, and must change
direction to get home. The ability of the girls to overcome this hurdle, and arrive home is again indicative of the notion that it is the journey – not the
destination – that matters when undertaking a physical journey.
The growth of Molly throughout the film reflects on the importance of the journey rather than the final outcome achieved. Molly is established
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Rabbit Proof Fence Essay
"Rabbit–Proof Fence"
Summary: An overview of the ways in which the film "Rabbit–Proof Fence" conveys the importance of home, family, and country to indigenous
peoples.
The film "Rabbit–Proof Fence" conveys the importance of home and country to indigenous peoples. The director Phillip Noyce refers to home in
different ways. He has symbolised home by repeatedly showing images of the Spirit Bird and the Rabbit Proof Fence, since it is a connection to their
home. The movie shows Molly's determination to get home and back to her family by escaping from Moore River and finding her way back home to
her country, Jigalong.
At the beginning of the film, it is shown how Molly's family hunt for food and use their bush skills in their culture,...show more content...
In this film, it also shows how important their loved ones are to them. Like when the three girls get taken away, they used their hands to bang against
the window, showing their sadness of separation, and their connection of their love and wanting to be close with their family at every time possible,
because every time they were together was a moment each treasured. Their grandmother felt the pain they were feeling, of desperation, frustration and
powerlessness, and that is shown to us when she hits herself with a rock on her head to make her bleed. Also the howling sounds she makes shows the
pain she feels and makes us feel her pain, too.
Home shows the familiarities that no other place shows. In your own country or home, you live by your own rules. Molly, Gracie and Daisy were
happier when they got home, since it was somewhere where they were loved, and since it was a place that gave them a sense of safety, knowing they
were home with the people they loved and a place they were familiar with. Getting home was like an emotional reunion for the girls, touching and
crying and at the same time Molly's distress because Gracie was taken away. "I lost one."
My views on this heart moving film would be never to give up in life, and with the right amount of determination you can succeed anything. The film
tells us the simple, but moving story with a skilled storyteller's voice. The great importance of their
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Daisy's Rabbit-Proof Fence
Today, I will talk about this book named Rabbit–Proof Fence. The main characters are three girls. Gracie, Daisy, and Molly. This book is about
amazing non–fiction story which is the true dark history of Aborigines in Australia written by Daisy's assertion. Before talking about this story, I will
explain what rabbit–fence is. Literally, rabbit fence is the fence for rabbit. When the first white people came toAustralia, they brought many animals
such as rabbit. Then rabbits ate tons of grasses which were for cow or other animals, so White people made the fence which lasts over 2000
kilometers for keep rabbit out from their land. From that time, the fence become landmark and people used it for mark. In 1930s, there was three girls
named Daisy,...show more content...
However, three girls had a knowledge about how to escape, how to hide from chasers, and that the rabbit proof fence lead them to their how town.
They escaped with a little water and food. On the way, sometimes they killed small animals, sometimes they begged the farmers to get food that
was rare case. They slept in bushes and always buried ashes not to let adult chase them. Therefore, adult could not find them even they wrote
article about " find the girls because they are poor and have no food, so we have to protect the pity girls!" in local newspaper, because the girls
always told the farmers that they came from north and were on the way to go to south, which was apposite meaning. But they had several
problems. First, on the way, they got injured on foot not heavy but deteriorating, so sometimes Molly who is oldest had to carry her sisters in her
arm. Finally, they needed mother and father. They were too young to escape from adult and walk 1600kilometers. However, their journey would
almost be done because of their wise and incredible endurance. It was happen close to their hometown. The youngest girl Daisy wanted to go to
city located near by the place they were, and she did not listen to Molly's advice. She went alone. Molly and Gracie waited her for a while, but
Daisy never came back, they wanted to look for her, but they could not because they could not go to the town and also they had to ran away from
chasers, so they could not stop walking. The three girls were separated. Two girls started to plod among the fence. Finally, Few days walking brought
them to their hometown. They did it! They walked 1600 kilometers, lost one girls,
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Rabbit Proof Fence Analysis
The Rabbit Proof Fence, a film by Phillip Noyce (2002) presents the story of 3 young aboriginal girls being forced away from their family to the
Moore river settlement and their struggle against a white government to return to their home along the rabbit proof fence. Noyce uses generic
conventions to view the idea of racism against aborigines in Australia from a particular perspective. The perspective of an aboriginal mother a native
child and a caucasian are all exhibited to prove the events of racism against aborigines during the 1930s.
The perspective of an indigenous mother and generic film conventions are utilised by Noyce to demonstrate the racist attitude towards aborigines in
Australia throughout the 1930s. Towards the beginning...show more content...
The racialist outlook of white people is established in The Rabbit Proof Fence with the aid of generic film conventions and an aboriginal child's
point of view. Throughout the duration of the young girls being transported to Moore river they are kept in a cage under the supervision of a train
worker. Noyce applied a low camera angle through the eyes of the children looking up at the train worker through the bars of the cage. The low
camera angle depicts the train worker as large, powerful and scary through the perspective of a child also making the children seem small and innocent.
This demonstrates the racism by forcing the white people to look dominant over the aborigines as they have all the control. The cage also symbolises
the treatment of aborigines as if they are animals and inhuman to the white race again proving the intolerant attitude of caucasians towards the natives
but through the perspective of an indigenous child. This again has a tendency to extract empathy towards the children as everyone knows how it
feels to be teased or feel submissive. When the girls arrived at the Moore river settlement all the children were gathered together and got checked for
their skin colour. When molly one of the young girls asks what is happening a friend replies "looking for the whiter ones, they more clever than us."
This dialogue again shows acts of racism through the perspective of the children by
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Rabbit Proof Fence

  • 1. Rabbit Proof Fence "The journey not the arrival matters" Discuss this statement focusing on HOW the composers of your prescribed text and two related texts represent the concept of journey. A physical journey involves both a beginning and ending. The beginning and ending is not what is important, in fact the journey itself is important. Physical journeys involve movement to new places whilst incurring obstacles. A physical journey has many opportunities for its travellers, these allow for physical, environmental and intellectual growth as they learn about themselves whilst overcoming challenges and learning about the world around. This is shown through different techniques in the film 'Rabbit Proof Fence' directed by Phillip Noyce, The book cover...show more content... Noyce uses a shot of Constable Riggs driving rapidly down a dirt road to Jigalong to await their arrival. The girls are called home by the singing of the female members of their aboriginal tribe. When the girls are reunited with their mother Noyce uses slow motion and music to increase the emotional impact. This is then escalated when Molly says to her grandmother 'we lost one'. She feels as though she failed in her journey. The closing scene is of a documentary which Molly and Daisy are walking through the desert. Noyce uses subtitles to inform the audience that their journey didn't end at their reuniting with their mother and grandmother, the audience also learns that Gracie is now dead. The book cover 'Odyssey' by Homer illustrated by Alan Baker uses title, vector lines, imagery and layout to represent the concept of journey and that 'the journey, not the arrival matters'. Baker uses the title as the first thing that the reader's eyes capture; he does this by the use of very large font and positioning the title in the middle of the page. The reader focuses on the word 'Odyssey', this represents a long journey. Baker also uses black writing on a white background to ensure that it stands out. Alan Baker uses vector lines to show the importance of the journey. The vector lines start at the title and move down and then back up again past the title. The journey Get more content on HelpWriting.net
  • 2. Rabbit Proof Fence Rabbit Proof Fence (2002) "Three little girls. Snatched from their mothers' arms. Spirited 1,500 miles away. Denied their very identity. Forced to adapt to a strange new world. They will attempt the impossible. A daring escape. A run from the authorities. An epic journey across an unforgiving landscape that will test their very will to survive. Their only resources, tenacity, determination, ingenuity and each other. Their one hope, find the rabbit–proof fence that might just guide them home. A true story." (IMDB, Anonymous Review) This movie takes place in Australia in the 1940s and 1950s. The movie is based on a true story that details how white people took Aborigines from their families and attempted to breed them into white...show more content... The 1990s witnessed further rights milestones, including government legislation that returned a great degree of autonomy, and increased wages and welfare benefits to aboriginal people. Figure 2: Kenneth Branagh as A.O. Neville I am appalled that anyone would want to completely erase someone's culture. The treatment of Aborigines should be equal to the treatment of the rest of Australian people. As aUnited States citizen, it is my belief that states, or countries, should be unified and treated as one by a single governing party. The treatment of these people brings back to mind the terror and confusion during the Holocaust. Although not as intense or extreme, it is certainly a similar situation where human beings are denied their personal rights of independence, mere existence, and happiness: "Aboriginal people should have the opportunity of living without any limit on the exercise of their Australian citizenship, and on the equal terms with all other Australians" (Howson, "Land Rights", quoting minister, Paul Hasluck, on the movement by the Methodist church). Humans desire a sense of belonging and religion is a key factor in the pursuit of happiness. Regardless of what religion or beliefs, people must always have a sense of community which is founded in the nation as a whole. Figure 3: The girls being captured by a government official. I was not surprised, given the time this movie took place, that Get more content on HelpWriting.net
  • 3. Rabbit Proof Fence Essay Composers of texts use a number of individual (and combinations of several) techniques to reprensent the concept of the physical journey and specifically that it is the journey, not the destination that matters. Noyce has used a number of filimic and literary techniques thoughout "Rabbit Proof Fence" to ddo this. The use of symbolism, lighting, characterisation and camera angles all enable Noyce to express the physical journey being explored. The cover of Kellehers' novel ______ uses visual techniques such as colour, blending and dark patches to convey the type of journey being explored through his text. "Sweet Home Alabama" uses literary techniques such as symbolism, repetition and rhyme to express the journey being undertaken by...show more content... Camera angles are used by Noyce to explore the idea that it is the journey, not the destination that matters. The panning long shot of the horizon (used at the commencement of the journey, when the three girls escape Moore River) is used to express the long difficult task at hand, and that in order to arrive home, they must over come a harsh terrain and long journey. The use of such varying camera angles sis indicative that it is the actual journey that matters, as oppose to the final destination. The "Rabbit Proof Fence" plays two vital roles throughout the journey of Molly, Daisy and Gracie, and is reflective of the importance of the journey. The fence is a representation of a map, as it is a symbol of home for the girls and provides a way in order for them to get home (following the fence). What is later revealed is that the fence has actually proven to be an obstacle, and that they have followed the wrong fence, and must change direction to get home. The ability of the girls to overcome this hurdle, and arrive home is again indicative of the notion that it is the journey – not the destination – that matters when undertaking a physical journey. The growth of Molly throughout the film reflects on the importance of the journey rather than the final outcome achieved. Molly is established Get more content on HelpWriting.net
  • 4. Rabbit Proof Fence Essay "Rabbit–Proof Fence" Summary: An overview of the ways in which the film "Rabbit–Proof Fence" conveys the importance of home, family, and country to indigenous peoples. The film "Rabbit–Proof Fence" conveys the importance of home and country to indigenous peoples. The director Phillip Noyce refers to home in different ways. He has symbolised home by repeatedly showing images of the Spirit Bird and the Rabbit Proof Fence, since it is a connection to their home. The movie shows Molly's determination to get home and back to her family by escaping from Moore River and finding her way back home to her country, Jigalong. At the beginning of the film, it is shown how Molly's family hunt for food and use their bush skills in their culture,...show more content... In this film, it also shows how important their loved ones are to them. Like when the three girls get taken away, they used their hands to bang against the window, showing their sadness of separation, and their connection of their love and wanting to be close with their family at every time possible, because every time they were together was a moment each treasured. Their grandmother felt the pain they were feeling, of desperation, frustration and powerlessness, and that is shown to us when she hits herself with a rock on her head to make her bleed. Also the howling sounds she makes shows the pain she feels and makes us feel her pain, too. Home shows the familiarities that no other place shows. In your own country or home, you live by your own rules. Molly, Gracie and Daisy were happier when they got home, since it was somewhere where they were loved, and since it was a place that gave them a sense of safety, knowing they were home with the people they loved and a place they were familiar with. Getting home was like an emotional reunion for the girls, touching and crying and at the same time Molly's distress because Gracie was taken away. "I lost one." My views on this heart moving film would be never to give up in life, and with the right amount of determination you can succeed anything. The film tells us the simple, but moving story with a skilled storyteller's voice. The great importance of their
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  • 6. Daisy's Rabbit-Proof Fence Today, I will talk about this book named Rabbit–Proof Fence. The main characters are three girls. Gracie, Daisy, and Molly. This book is about amazing non–fiction story which is the true dark history of Aborigines in Australia written by Daisy's assertion. Before talking about this story, I will explain what rabbit–fence is. Literally, rabbit fence is the fence for rabbit. When the first white people came toAustralia, they brought many animals such as rabbit. Then rabbits ate tons of grasses which were for cow or other animals, so White people made the fence which lasts over 2000 kilometers for keep rabbit out from their land. From that time, the fence become landmark and people used it for mark. In 1930s, there was three girls named Daisy,...show more content... However, three girls had a knowledge about how to escape, how to hide from chasers, and that the rabbit proof fence lead them to their how town. They escaped with a little water and food. On the way, sometimes they killed small animals, sometimes they begged the farmers to get food that was rare case. They slept in bushes and always buried ashes not to let adult chase them. Therefore, adult could not find them even they wrote article about " find the girls because they are poor and have no food, so we have to protect the pity girls!" in local newspaper, because the girls always told the farmers that they came from north and were on the way to go to south, which was apposite meaning. But they had several problems. First, on the way, they got injured on foot not heavy but deteriorating, so sometimes Molly who is oldest had to carry her sisters in her arm. Finally, they needed mother and father. They were too young to escape from adult and walk 1600kilometers. However, their journey would almost be done because of their wise and incredible endurance. It was happen close to their hometown. The youngest girl Daisy wanted to go to city located near by the place they were, and she did not listen to Molly's advice. She went alone. Molly and Gracie waited her for a while, but Daisy never came back, they wanted to look for her, but they could not because they could not go to the town and also they had to ran away from chasers, so they could not stop walking. The three girls were separated. Two girls started to plod among the fence. Finally, Few days walking brought them to their hometown. They did it! They walked 1600 kilometers, lost one girls, Get more content on HelpWriting.net
  • 7. Rabbit Proof Fence Analysis The Rabbit Proof Fence, a film by Phillip Noyce (2002) presents the story of 3 young aboriginal girls being forced away from their family to the Moore river settlement and their struggle against a white government to return to their home along the rabbit proof fence. Noyce uses generic conventions to view the idea of racism against aborigines in Australia from a particular perspective. The perspective of an aboriginal mother a native child and a caucasian are all exhibited to prove the events of racism against aborigines during the 1930s. The perspective of an indigenous mother and generic film conventions are utilised by Noyce to demonstrate the racist attitude towards aborigines in Australia throughout the 1930s. Towards the beginning...show more content... The racialist outlook of white people is established in The Rabbit Proof Fence with the aid of generic film conventions and an aboriginal child's point of view. Throughout the duration of the young girls being transported to Moore river they are kept in a cage under the supervision of a train worker. Noyce applied a low camera angle through the eyes of the children looking up at the train worker through the bars of the cage. The low camera angle depicts the train worker as large, powerful and scary through the perspective of a child also making the children seem small and innocent. This demonstrates the racism by forcing the white people to look dominant over the aborigines as they have all the control. The cage also symbolises the treatment of aborigines as if they are animals and inhuman to the white race again proving the intolerant attitude of caucasians towards the natives but through the perspective of an indigenous child. This again has a tendency to extract empathy towards the children as everyone knows how it feels to be teased or feel submissive. When the girls arrived at the Moore river settlement all the children were gathered together and got checked for their skin colour. When molly one of the young girls asks what is happening a friend replies "looking for the whiter ones, they more clever than us." This dialogue again shows acts of racism through the perspective of the children by Get more content on HelpWriting.net