Yolngu Boy is a traditional film which explicitly tells the story about three adolescents, Lorrpu, Milika and Botj. (Johnson, S 2001)The film indicates the obstacles that adolescents would face, such as the peer pressure, the quest of the identities, and conflicts with each others. However, three of them had a same dream which is to become the great hunters. ( Villella, F.A 2001) However, dream is hard to attain. As Botj has just came back from the six months detention as he stole a motorbike. Milika is aspiring in Australia football and interested in girls, fame and cars. Unlike Milika and Botj, Lorrpu is the only one who appreciates and devotes the traditional culture of aboriginal and determinates to become the great hunter(Klindo, M 2001). Although the three main characters are not skilled in the ancient Aboriginal knowledge, they try to make canoe and hunt the prey together to strengthen their friendship and traditional culture during the journey to Darwin. Firstly, this essay will grope the friendship among three of them. Secondly, it will discuss how they connect to the culture.
Initially, their friendship was, but as time has changed and the good days are gone, their friendship is being tested. Each of them is facing different challenges. For instance, Botj has gone to jail as he lost his way in aboriginal and contemporary cultures and violated both cultures’ law. Thus, the community has acknowledged that he is the ‘trouble maker’; especially the elders have given up on him(Villella, F.A 2001). Nevertheless, Lorrpu and Milika haven’t given up on Botj, when he is going back to the prison for the latest crime, Lorrpu convinced Milika and Botj to go to Darwin to find their Aboriginal leader, Dawu, who can save and allo...
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Today, I will be telling my view on Australian texts. I will be analysing the text “The Exotic Rissole” by Tanveer Ahmed.
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Yengoyan, Aram A. "Economy, Society, and Myth in Aboriginal Australia." Annual Review of Anthropology 8.1 (1979): 393-415. Print.
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...o mirror the horrors of the wa rin which these four people are involved. The themes explored through the elements in particular, are complex and contradictory, just as the elements are themselves. Sometimes harsh, sometimes cleansing, and almost always painful, these elements shape the characters and plot, and reside in much of the imagery explored in the novel. The techniques of symbolism, metaphor and imagery develop the novel's themes of love, war, suffering and identity, which inform a reading of the novel which would not be as powerful through use of characters and plot alone. The subtlety and eloquence through which these themes are explored really inspire thought and reflection in the reader, which in turn credits a more complex understanding of the novel.
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