Walkabout This story is about two children who are stranded in the Australian outback after a plane crash. By chance they meet an Aborigine boy who is on his walkabout. From these two different groups of people meeting each other, it shows the reader how much people can learn from others and how different we all are. Mary’s first inclination is to mother Peter. She feels responsible for him and he depends on her. But she feels inadequate in this new environment. ‘Always she had protected Peter, had smoothed things out and made them easy for him – molly-coddled him like an anxious hen, her father had once said. But how could she protect him now?’ Then the bush boy comes across their path and things become tense between the children and aborigine. The very first thing Mary notices about the Aborigine is that he is very black and naked. She finds this very disturbing, ‘The thing that she couldn’t accept, the thing that seemed to her shockingly and indecently wrong, was the fact that the boy was naked.’ As the two cultures confront each other they just stare at each other in disbelief and wonder, ‘Between them the distance was less than the spread of an outstretched arm, but more than a hundred thousand years.’ ‘They had climbed a long way up the ladder of progress; they had climbed so far, in fact, that they had forgotten how their climb had started’ They had had everything provided for them and had never had to fend for themselves. ‘It was very different with the Aboriginal way of life. He knew what reality was. Their lives were unbelievably simple compared to the aborigine. They had no homes, no crops, no clothes, no possessions. The few things they had they shared: food and wives; children and l... ... middle of paper ... ...least offended by it. Peter and Mary mix very naturally with these Aborigine strangers. The women swim together and share food and Peter as been drawn to a particular man within the tribe. The man looks at the drawings they had done earlier of a house and realises that they need to find civilisation. He draws them a map, which ends in a house so they know where to go. Before they leave Peter takes in the beauty of their surroundings he ‘knew in that moment that every detail of what he’d seen in the last two weeks he’d remember for he rest of his life.’ He then leads the way via the map to civilisation and Mary follows. It makes you hope that they will take back with them into their ‘civilised’ culture all they have learned from the Aboriginal people and their strange ways of life with their fantasy lands, spiritual gods and there true sense of belonging.
then the town and down till he's in the room with Tom and his wife. In "The
Every hero’s journey begins with the call. Gene is called to adventure by Finny, “‘You work to hard,’ Funny said, sitting opposite me at the table where we read. The study lamp cast a round yellow pool between us. ‘You know all about History and English and French and everything else. What good will Trigonometry do you?’” (Knowles 23). This statement had the power to bring Gene out of his shell, instead of working on his studies Finny wants him to have fun, beginning the journey that will change his life forever. However, soon after, Gene also refuses this call to adventure to then take it again, “‘Wait a minute,” I said more
parade through the town in which the crowd loves and cheers for him. As Bobby
makes his triumph at the end of the novel even greater when he reaches his mother’s house—all on his own.
then hides his treasures away in a safe place after they leave. As he gets into
The movie “Walkout” is about the school system in East Los Angeles in the late 1960’s. During this time Mexican Americans were treated unfairly and were seen as second class citizens. The story goes through the different aspects that Mexican American/ Chicano students had to put up with within their own schools. They wanted and deserved equal education, but were constantly shut down by the city. This movie contains the four characteristics of Mexican American Art, which is what gives this movies such a strong and meaningful message.
...hes forward, and notices a man in the distance. To his shock, it is Kichijiro, who quickly tells him the mountains are unsafe, and assures him that he will take care of him.
“Go back?" he thought. "No good at all! Go sideways? Impossible! Go forward? Only thing to do! On we go!" So up he got, and trotted along with his little sword held in front of him and one hand feeling the wall, and his heart all of a patter and a pitter.”
Msimangu takes him to Ezenzeleni, where he is spiritually uplifted. & nbsp;
like a hero. When he came back a year later, he realised that if he
“He was lucky, because he knew the river so well that he had no need of turning to see where he was headed. So precise had the fifty years rendered his navigational sense that he did not even look when he approached bridges, and shot through the arches at full speed always right in the center.”
who helps him on the way. The presence of law and justice is always in
The narrator picks a road and claims that he will come back to travel the other one another time.
then convinced that he could find what he had lost and would be able to