Comparing Things Fall Apart And Rabbit-Proof Fence

The westward expansion forced Native Americans to become more like “white men”. They had to change their way of life so the peace would more likely to be kept. One chief known by Sitting Bull was told to be more like the whites. In document 4, Perspectives from the Chiefs, there is a quote from Sitting Bull about becoming more like a white man. Chief Sitting Bull stated, “If the Great Spirit had desired me to be a white man he would have done so in the first place.” ( Doc 4) Sitting Bull then told the critics he was made the way he is because there is a reason for it. He wasn’t going to accept American culture because he would be denying his destiny as the person the Great Spirit made him to be. In the end of the quote he uses American religion to

Throughout many readings, western and European culture is forced upon American Indians. While some resist and this makes them cling even tighter to their native culture, others seem to be persuaded by these influences. In particular, there are solid references to this in both Ohiyesa’s “The Ghost Dance War” as well as in Mary Rowlandson’s capture narrative, The Sovereignty and Goodness of God. However, both texts seem to have a different opinion on those American Indians who become ‘westernized’, be it through cultural convention or through religious belief or conversion. The English’s view of them is already set in stone and their ethnocentrism is too strongly imbedded in

The early settlers saw the Native Americans as uncivilized and savage. This led to attempts to eradicate Native culture. The early settlers enslaved natives, took advantage of them, and refused them rights. Later, the government forced Native Americans to convert to christianity. This shaped the Native American culture by taking away the native’s religions. In the 1800s most “Native American tribes had been overwhelmed by the superior weapons of the US military and confined to reservations” (Alexie 1). By forcibly relocating Native Americans to reservations the government successfully stripped native culture further. The reservations took Indians from their way of life, whether it be nomadic or hunter-gatherer, and displaced them on a barren plot of land. The natives ways of living was integral to their culture as it shaped traditions. The government erased

     The colonization of civilizations has changed the world’s history forever. From the French, Spaniard, and down to the English, have changed cultures, traditions, religions, and livelihoods of other societies. The Native Americans, for example, were one of the many civilizations that were conquered by the English. The result was their ways of life based on nature changed into the more “civilized” ways of the colonists of the English people. Many Native Americans have lost their old ways and were pulled into the new “civilized” ways. Today only a small amount of Native American nations or tribes exist in remote areas surviving following their traditions. In the book Ceremony, a story of a man named

The treatment towards Aboriginals from when the First Fleet arrived in Australia until the early 19th century was inhumane and heartless. The appalling mistreatment of Aborigine’s is explored in the motion picture “Rabbit Proof Fence”, Paul’s story and my visual.

The protagonists from ‘Us Mob Walawurru’ and ‘Rabbit Proof Fence’ are both heroic characters. Discuss.

In the late 1800s, third world countries, primarily Africa, were infiltrated by European colonizers. In Things Fall Apart, Heart of Darkness, and “Shooting an Elephant”, we see the direct impact of the colonizers on the beliefs of the natives. Post-colonial literature centres mainly around how beliefs are questioned and eventually altered; a transformation that can manifest in numerous ways as it is not fixed. In each of the stories, a different form of colonization is elucidated. In Things Fall Apart, the curiosity of the natives with regards to the culture of the europeans leads to colonization. The oppression of the natives exerted by the europeans in Heart of Darkness leads to colonization as well. Finally, in “Shooting an Elephant”, the roles of the colonizers and the colonized are reversed as it is the natives who take on the position of the oppressors.

Every person at some point in their life, has experienced divides between society. These divides can come in many forms such as race, social standing, age and beliefs. The film “The Rabbit-Proof Fence” directed by Phillip Noyce, the film “The Help” directed by Tate Taylor, the novel “Divergent” written by Veronica Roth and the novel “The Darkest Minds” written by Alexandra Bracken all exhibit forms of divides between society. The divides between characters in these texts are all closely related to stereotypes. The Rabbit-Proof Fence and The Help show divides between race. The Help and Divergent show divides in the minority and majority and divides between The Darkest Minds and Divergent include the divide between the Government and civilians.

City of God and Rabbit-Proof Fence are two intriguing international films made in the same year. Both films were made based on a true story Fernando Meirelles(City of God) and Phillip Noyce(Rabbit-Proof Fence). City of God is an exhilarating, fast-paced action film set in the oppressive confines of a favela(slum). Rabbit-Proof Fence is a story of three young girls who cross the harsh Australian desert on foot to return to their home. These two films were both filmed in 2002. However, they both showed great themes describing to today’s life.

The Rabbit-Proof Fence directed by Phillip Noyce, is a story of Aboriginal life in 1931 Western Australia, at the time of the stock market crash in America, and specifically the time of Australia gaining independence from Great Britain and implementing the Aboriginal Act, an act allowing the Protector of the Aborigines to relocate random family members to white camps. The story follows three girls, Molly (14), Gracie (10), and Daisy (8) being relocated by the Protector of the Aborigines, Mr. Neville, aka Mr. Devil. In the camp, Molly notices a rain cloud, inferring she and her family members must escape, as the rain will cover their tracks, something they are familiar with through years of hunting animals by their tracks. The girls escape, and after a long journey of chasing, aid from helpful strangers, and memorable family moments, the girls successfully follow the 990 mile fence to their home, but loose their cousin Gracie on the journey.

“He has put a knife on the things that held us together and we have fallen apart,” (130). Chinua Achebe captured the rarely heard voices of the African tribes, in his novel Things Fall Apart, and how they coped with the Europeans colonizing their homeland. The author had shown that a dedicated person is willing to do anything

Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe describes how and why the colonized people are influenced to question their culture’s conventions. The colonized starts to doubt their tradition because of its disadvantageous impact on their lives. Consequently, they slowly start following the new convention of the colonists, and finally they even take acts to prove their original conventions wrong. Initially, the colonized starts off by doubting the disadvantageous aspect of their culture. The novel Things Fall Apart describes that “none of his converts was a man whose word was heeded in the assembly of people.” (Achebe 143) The men of Umuofia who do not have a title are disrespected and affected by prejudice; and they are also the first to convert to the colonizers’ conventions. Secondly, the colonized will soon start to follow the colonists’ conventions. Mr. Kiaga, who is a native convert, convinces other villagers to convert to Christianity.

It never ceases to amaze how the smallest changes can have the most significant impact on things that you wouldn’t think it would affect. Throughout “Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe, the role of customs and traditions is incredibly important as well as the point of view and the role of the people. In “Things Fall Apart” the traditions and customs are very important to the village. Not only do the europeans come and change the tradition the next generations also does the same.

For this book review I chose to read the novel called The Rabbit-Proof Fence by an Australian author named Doris Pilkington. I really had no other reason why I chose this novel other than the fact that when I saw the title as The Rabbit-Proof Fence from the lists of books we can choose from, I immediately thought of the State Barrier Fence of Western Australia also known as the Rabbit-Proof Fence that was originally intended to contain rabbit population on one side and the farmer’s land on the other, when vermins became a problem in October of 1895. I wanted to know what this “Rabbit-Proof Fence” has got to do with our topic in class of multiculturalism.

The Native American voice typically speaks with a sense of perseverant and unyielding spirit. In contrast to this commonality, the last pronounced chief of the Crow nation, Plenty Coup, reflected on life near his death and said, “When the buffalo went away the hearts of my people fell to the ground…and they could not lift them up again. After this nothing happened” (2). Plenty Coup’s statement earns a special distinction, in that he suggested that life met a terminus at this point in time. This compelling statement lays the foundation for Johnathan Lear’s exploration into the human condition, as framed in the situational context of a people whose cultural cornerstones have been removed. In analysis of Radical Hope: Ethics in the Face of Cultural Devastation, Lear ultimately begs the question: How should one cope with the possibility that one’s culture may dissolve? Giving voice to Plenty Coup and the Crow People Lear contends that, “a traditional form of life ended” (8), which is the broad thesis for the work in its entirety.