Walkabout
In the novel Walkabout, the writer, James Vance Marshall, wants us to understand accepting differences. He shows us this idea through the character of Mary. Throughout this book, Mary overcomes this idea and accepts the culture that is not familiar to her. At the beginning of the book Mary did not appreciate the Bush Boy for helping out Mary and Peter. Mary did whatever she can to avoid the Bush Boy and even tried to get her brother from getting near him. "The girl's first impulse was to grab Peter and run, but as her eyes swept over the stranger, her fear died away." Mary at first thought the Bush Boy was a threat to her, giving her fear and curiosity on whether sh
But this didn't make it, for her, any more acceptable. When Peter told Mary that the Bush Boy is going to die, Mary said that it was just a cold and that it would go away. " Mary never really cared about the Bush Boy as much her brother, Peter did. She gradually became familiar with the Bush Boy and realized that he was not as bad as she thought he was. She told herself that it wasn't his fault he was naked, that his nakedness was due, purely and simply, to his primitive way of life. She felt guilty every time she looked at him. The one thing that was blocking their friendship was the nakedness of the Bush Boy. Mary didn't believe Peter at first but gave in and ran to the Bush Boy. Mary finally realized that what she thought of the world as two was turned into one. Later in the book, the Bush Boy get too sick and dies under a tree. "She looked into his face, closely, and saw that what her brother had told was true. She thought that it was true and that the Bush Boy really was sick.
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