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 s
In this novel, the two children Mary and Peter have changed their roles in the desert. I was expecting that the white man should have came out and greet the children and invited them inside his hut, while they were in the desert there were only animals like birds and platypuses, he could make the story much more exciting if he had put more dangerous animals in the story. Peter has changed his role from a hand - holding whiner to a strong and adaptable boy to becoming a leader. It is not very likely for a man to be very harsh to a woman by saying that they let the men do all the work for them around the house every time but because women are never passive but they tend to be more sophisticated. 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. 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. James Vance Marshall, the author was a brilliant man. The way he has told the readers how the two children had got on the desert island through Mary's dream was brilliant, but the way he had written the ending was quite poor because I was expecting more that a plain goodbye. Today multiracial are encouraged in many countries instead of being races so that they could live a perfect life with peace and harmony. He should also put more details when the bush boy and Peter had the coconuts from. ' and 'Uncertain unsure, she fell back on a woman's oldest line - of - action: passivity'. These two statements about Mary make it offensive and harsh for a woman and from these statements; it makes the author sound as if he is sexist. After this role change, Peter had become more like a man and Mary, sleeping by the fire was using him as a protection from the bush boy because he is more likely to be helping and protecting his sister from danger like what she had done to him. I definitely disagree with this quote of statement because as a young teenage girl being passive is not woman - like.
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