Rabbit-Proof Fence

Andrea Valdés Padial 4ºESO A

Contents

Summary

Australia

My personal opinion

Characters

Summary

"Rabbit-Proof Fence" tells the history of three young women who had been stolen by white people to make them work for them. They were translated from Jigalong to the Moore River Settlement. However, Molly and her cousins Gracie and Daisy got escaped from this place. They walked so far in the bushes, they had to survive as they could, but finally, they arrived home. Unfortunately, Gracie was lost near home because she thought that her mother was waiting for her in another town, although it was false, and she returned to the settlement. A few years ago, Gracie was working as a domestic servant on farms, she never returned to Jigalong. Daisy moved with her family to a camp, and she worked as a domestic servant on stations in the area, and now lives with her daughters´families at Jigalong. Molly returned to the settlement again, and she had to run the same journey to go Jigalong because she had noticed about the deaths of some people in her family. Her daughter Doris wrote this book.

Australia

Australia is a continent located in Oceania. Its capital is Canberra and its most populous city is Sydney. With an area of 7,741,220 km², Australia is the largest country in Oceania and the sixth largest in the world. It has a wide variety of landscapes and climates, with deserts in the center, tropical jungles in the northeast, and mountain ranges in the southeast.It has unique species of plants and animals, such as kangaroos, koalas, platypus...

3.Learning the white man´s ways

6.Hiding from the white man

1. Growing up at Jigalong

2. Leaving Jigalong

5. Finding the fence

Contents

4. Walking north

7. Losing Gracie

Characters

Gracie

Molly

Daisy

She is 10 years old. She is wilder than her cousins and she has the same goal as them. However, she decided to follow another journey to find her mother but it was only a trap and she never returned to Jigalong.

She is 14 years old. She is the oldest and she led her cousins to Jigalong. She is so clever and she knew how to distract the black tracker and where they could get food.

She is 8 years old. She is the youngest and only followed her cousin Molly. Due to her youth, she was always tired but she never stopped.

My personal opinion

In my opinion, it is a very sensitive story. When I think that this happened in the real life, I always feel impressed. Nowadays we have everything very easy but a few years ago or in another country some people are separated from their families to obligate them to work, and that is so sad.Finally, in that story, they had a happy final but thousands of people, especially women don´t return home never.