April Raintree Analysis

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Members of the Aboriginal community, or any community, cannot allow themselves to believe love can only exist within their own race. In search of April Raintree projects tensions that can be involved with interracial dating. For society in 1969 racism was largely considered socially acceptable. With that being said, for one to express affection with person of another race was more than just an act of love, it was also an act of courage. Today racism still exists but today is society is now aware of how useless and unproductive hatred really is. People know that love is strange and unpredictable and all communities, including Aboriginals, must embrace the destruction of the boundaries that once restricted one to believing that there would be a compromise of identity for love. The only reason a person does not succeed at anything in life, is because of how they perceive themselves, by allowing their insecurities to get the best of them. Garth’s relationship with Cheryl failed because he allowed his perceptions of how his friends would view him to get in …show more content…

The failure actually came from Bob Radcliffe simply giving up on his marriage. Despite Bob’s infidelities with Heather, his mother and April do credit him to be more subversive than he may really have been. When Mother Radcliffe said “The only reason I can think of why Bob married her (April) was to get back at me” (p.116) April took those words and she believed them. There is strong possibility that Bob married April solely out of love and then he just simply fell out of love. Though it is an unhealthy environment to be living with a racist mother in law, but if April had been displayed her identity with pride around Bob’s mother their indifferences could have been more transparent, and perhaps would have gave April the opportunity gain a healthy footing by distancing herself and Bob away from his

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