Aborigines of Australia

          Rabbit Proof Fence and Walkabout are very similar in many ways. Both stories are about the Aborigine people of Australia. In Rabbit Proof Fence, the three Aborigine girls are forced away from their mothers by the police and taken to a camp-like place. In Walkabout, an Aborigine boy helps Mary and Peter, (two Americans,) when they are stranded in the hot, dry land of the Outback. Rabbit Proof Fence is a story where it shows how Aborigines are treated in Australia. The police abduct the three Aborigine girls, Molly, Daisy and Gracie; Molly and Daisy are sisters while Gracie is their cousin. The white people of Australia want to “breed the African American out of them.” The police take them to a camp where they live with about fifty other Aborigine children. They are taught the European way of life. After a few long days at the camp, the three girls escape during the church ceremonies. The girls travel through the Outback of Australia, trying not to get caught by the tracker, Moodoo, or the police. In Walkabout, Mary and Peter’s plane crashed near the deserts of Australia, far away from any civilization. They are the only survivors from the plane. On their journey to civilization of some sort, they come across an Aborigine boy traveling by himself, a “bush boy.” He helps them survive by finding them food and water. From both of these stories, one can conclude that the Aborigine culture is not as developed as some of the other cultures around the world. Even though this may be true, this doesn’t mean that those cultures are superior to the Aborigine culture. The white people of Australia thought that they were helping the Aborigines by abducting them and imposing their own culture. I don’t think this was right; no culture is superior to another culture.