Rabbit-Proof Fence |  | Author: Doris Pilkington
Publisher: Miramax
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 51566
Media: Paperback
Reading Level: Young Adult
Pages: 160
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.9 x 5.1 x 0.5
ISBN: 0786887842
Dewey Decimal Number: 823.914
EAN: 9780786887842
ASIN: 0786887842
Publication Date: November 20, 2002
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Product Description
Following an Australian government edict in 1931, black aboriginal children and children of mixed marriages were gathered up and taken to settlements to be institutionally assimilated. In Rabbit-Proof Fence, award-wining 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. There, Molly and her relatives Gracie and Daisy were forbidden to speak their native language, forced to abandon their heritage, and taught to be culturally white. After regular stays in solitary confinement, the three girls planned and executed a daring escape from the grim camp.
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 needs more April 11, 2010
Autumn Gardner (provo, ut)
The story is amazing. The writing however is ok. There are many things that need an explanation that aren't given one. If the book were two or three times as long it would be perfect.
RUN, GIRLS, RUN... August 9, 2009
Lawyeraau (Balmoral Castle)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I first saw the Miramax movie starring Kenneth Branagh, which was based upon this book. I was intrigued enough by the film to read this book. I was not disappointed. This book is certainly a testament to the human spirit. It also reveals the harsh, paternalistic and racist policies that the Australian government imposed upon its Aboriginal population.
In 1931, the Australian government issued an edict that mandated that all Aboriginal and part Aboriginal children were to be forcibly removed from their homes and taken to special settlements where they were to be assimilated. There, while living in inhumane and degrading conditions, they would be taught to be culturally white, would be mandated to speak English only, and would be trained to be domestic help or laborers in white households.
The author tells the reader the story of three young girls, Mollie, Gracie, and Daisy, who had Aboriginal mothers and White fathers. Ranging in age from nine to fifteen years old, the three girls were forcibly removed from their loving families and taken to a special settlement. The girls rebelled against this system, and, homesick, escaped from such a settlement. They left with iterally just the clothes on their back. Their only guide home would be a rabbit-proof fence that stretched for over a thousand miles across Australia.
The girls Aboriginal heritage and survival skills would come in handy throughout their nearly nine week long trek across Australia, as they were forced to subsist on the land and the occasional kindness from strangers. They had to endure thirst, hunger, and danger, while avoiding being caught along the way by professional trackers, police on the lookout for them, and white settlers that were unsympathetic to their situation.
This story is a most personal one for the author, as one of the girls, Molly, is the author's mother. Told in a straightforward, factual manner, it is an incredible story that is an indictment of the Australian government's racist policies against its Aboriginal people and its imperialistic self-proclaimed superiority over them.
 Quick service June 9, 2009
Dorothy Kitchen (Durham, NC)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
The company who sent me "Rabbit Proof Fence" was thorough and quick within my quidelines. The price was
reasonable and the book all it promised to be.
Rabbit proof fence March 16, 2009
Peggy
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
this is a great book. should be read by everybody. it's a nice reminder that we have lots of work to do.
True story and it has been around for a while even made into a movie
Read the book
Aboriginal Hardships January 30, 2009
Mr. "T" (Cincinnati, Ohio USA)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I saw the movie and was fascinated with the story line. I wanted to read the book to get a greater understanding of the hardships endured by the three- (3) aboriginal girls. Great reading.
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