Rainbows End Analysis

Craig Silvey engages us with Jasper Jones in order to convey a certain moral message in hope to make us stop and think. No one in this novel is truly accepted into the community, which tells me as the responder, that in order for this society to succeed differences need to be tossed aside. Jasper Jones is a credible recollection of the injustice, racism and social exclusion that exists in the Australian society. It also tackles growing up, first love, family unity, and a sense of belonging in a community.

The Queensland Theatre Company’s Black Diggers’ dramatic meaning is to highlight the racial prejudice that Indigenous soldiers faced in the time period surrounding World War II and call to attention the lack of remembrance and appreciation for Indigenous soldiers actions. The dramatic meaning is effectively portrayed to the audience through the manipulation of the elements of drama, the components of collage drama and acting skills.

Hayden targets the Everyman, and his straightforward writing greatly assists him in communicating his ideas. He doesn’t use a complex vernacular, for which the readers may need to pick up a dictionary to continue reading. He tells stories, injected with humour, and colloquialisms as a method of engaging the reader. However, Taylor’s use of humour in his essay is more than a tool to keep the reader interested; it keeps the reads from becoming scared away by the uncomfortable racial topics at hand. A favourite tool of his, dramatic irony, is used when a director exclaims that “he’s got an amazing grasp of the Native situation for a white person” (61, Taylor). The tension of that sentence is relieve by the ironic light in Taylor portrays it. Of all the parts of his essay, his style is the most

Misrepresentation of Natives on screen throughout the 20th century has had an adverse effect on them. Whether it was positive or negative stereotypes, Natives felt the effect of Hollywood and began to lose their self-identity, their honour, and their pride. Reel Injun takes a look at how movies have defined an entire race and also documents the rebirth of the Native identity after decades of destructive Hollywood movies by interviewing notable Native actors, actresses, and activists. By doing so, director Neil Diamond hopes to silence Hollywood stereotypes and get Hollywood to properly represent the Native people.

“My Aboriginal Culture has taught me that universal life is circular,". "I grew up in a white man’s world,". "I looked at myself in a square mirror and didn’t know who I

Deadly Unna? (1998), is a book based on a true story that tells the tale of non-Indigenous boy Gary ‘Blacky’ Black and his friendship with Dumby Red. Set in Port Victoria in South Australia, Blacky’s evolving relationships with the Indigenous kids in the community inspires him to question the underlying racism that exists in society. In this essay, the author’s methods for conveying the theme of belonging to the reader will be evaluated. Subsequently, Gwynne’s generation of racial segregation in the community, followed by the contrasting types of racism demonstrated by the characters, will be analysed.

I always thought my father was right and smart in so many ways when I was a child, but it turned out he was wrong about one main idea and that idea was about racism. I didn’t like the idea of being that kind of person: a racist. Stereotypes don’t define people, especially if you’ve never met them. So it made me realize how wrong my father was because even though people have different ethnicities, they are regular people just like me. Now I didn’t realize this right away, but when I went out into the real world to find the truth, the light that had been calling my name. It happened on March 25, 2015, when I visited the country of Australia. Plato, author of The Allegory of the Cave, says “That what he saw before was an illusion, but that now, when he is

Australian film and television deal with such themes by accepting the reality of Australian contexts. The Australian demographic are known for their rough humour and approach, hence the depiction of an Australian man, or woman, can be taken lightly and not offensively. At the same time, film and television are careful in representing Indigenous Australian as opposed to stereotypical white Australians. It is these historical, political, socio-economic ideologies that shape Australia’s national ‘type’.

Bob Randall tells of being taken in his youth from the Yankunytjatjara people of Uluru and the damage done to Aborigines in the attempt to destroy a culture. Idyllic early life, shattered when he is taken from his family as one of the 'Stolen Generation', and his journey since then. While there is sadness and desperation, the film finishes with a sense of hope. Our black history has got wounds that are so deep, that even us modern people are feeling it. We both have these scars, and we need to heal together. Listen and understand, and let’s try and make things right from now on. What we need to do is go back and say ‘this is where we went wrong, these things did happen. We shouldn’t deny it anymore’. It’s our right to have the sense of belonging, which carries the responsibility of what we call ‘kanyini’.White people need to understand our system by coming and learning from us, so that we get a 2 way of learning and living together. Thousands of years of teaching, you can learn and we can share. Over 40,000 years of culture. One philosophy that connects us

Australian landscapes have long been used to place fear and anxiety in the Anglo-Australian’s psyche. This anxiety and the requirement for Indigenous peoples to negotiate white ideals is reflected in current Australian literature and cinematic identities. This essay will discuss the critical arguments of what makes the chosen texts Australian literature. This discussion will be restricted to the critiques of the film Lantana directed by Ray Lawrence and the novel Biten’ Back written by Vivienne Cleven. The will firstly look at the use of landscape as a crime scene and how this links to the anxieties caused by the doctrine of terra nullius and the perceived threats from an introduced species. It will then look at the Australian fear of a different ‘other’ followed then by a discussion around masculinity and the need for Indigenous people to negotiate white ideals. The essay will argue that Australian literature and film reflect a nation that still has anxieties about the true sovereignty of the land and assert that Indigenous people have a requirement to fit in with white ideals.

In surveying Australian film production over the last century, what visibly occurs is a general evasion of Aboriginal issues and an absence of any balanced representation of Australia’s notable Indigenous population. But I need to add, that things are changing. Several recent films seek to redress this imbalance and provide a substantial Indigenous storyline.

It is a natural part of human nature to long for the feeling of belonging and fitting into what people consider “normal.” Craig Silvey brings this idea into the novel Jasper Jones through the use of the historical setting of the 1960s as a platform to demonstrate realistic examples of racial discrimination and its consequences; the historical context also plays an important role in the setting of Corrigan, Western Australia, as the small fictitious town represents how the whole of Australia was following a corrupt social regime obsessed with appearances. The use of setting, first person narration and characters in the novel educates the reader of the reality of the “White Australia” movement and the impact it had on those of Australian Aboriginal

An individual’s sense of belonging is determined not only by their own choices but also by the attitudes of others.

The key theme of racism that is explored in Langton’s writing affected me through these experiences, and changed my values when I went through these experiences. Once I had come to the realisation that the incident with the homeless man was most likely not due to his skin colour, I began to realise that I had begun stereotyping due to what I had heard and been exposed to - and I began making a conscious choice to try and find other reasons that a situation might have happened, other than to instantly assume stereotypes or racism. Langton also notes that in situations where an Aboriginal and a non-Aboriginal are engaging each other, they “will test imagined models of the other, repeatedly adjusting the models as the responses are processed to find some satisfactory way of comprehending the other”. This relates back to the key theme of stereotyping as each person is testing the way the other responds in relation to prior knowledge and potential stereotypes that they have heard - both forms of racism, in a way. My most memorable experience with this was when I was working retail, and an Aboriginal family were

Tara June Winch’s ‘Swallow The Air’, explores the idea of vulnerability as a barrier to self-discovery. The protagonist, May Gibson, of mixed descent, lives in a dysfunctional and