Walkabout

             'Walkabout', a novel written by James Vance Marshall is a story about two American children stranded on an island and meets an aboriginal. The aboriginal then saves their lives after a long journey.
             What have I learn from reading 'Walkabout'? I have learned many things through this book like stereo – types; gender, the racial and cultural differences, care; brother – sister relationship. From this novel, it tells me how to survive if I were to be stranded on an island. In order to survive, I have to hunt and eat the animals before they could do the same to me. If I needed a coldwater to cool down my dehydration I could get it from simply dipping my hand at the bottom of lukewarm water and a yacca – yacca could be used to light a fire very easily.
             After reading this novel, I have learned something about the racial and cultural differences. Racism used to be very common during the eighties and nineties in the United Stated but now it is still happening in some parts of the world. I learned that the color of a person's skin does not really matter whether they are black or white because inside of them are still the same with no differences. Today multiracial are encouraged in many countries instead of being races so that they could live a perfect life with peace and harmony.
             In this novel, the two children Mary and Peter have changed their roles in the desert. Peter has changed his role from a hand – holding whiner to a strong and adaptable boy to becoming a leader. While Mary switched her role from a big sister 'Always she had been the big sister who had stuck plaster on Peter's knees, had taught him to tie his shoe laces and had taken the lead in their games of Indians and Cowboys!' to a mother as Peter's protector and at the end as a follower. After this role change, Peter had become more like a man and Mary, sleeping by the fire was using him as a prot
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