Inner Journey
Introduction music is of traditional aboriginal culture. Hawk is symbolic in journey. Shown in beginning of movie, looked at as a sense of freedom. Reigned spirit bird, claimed to look after you.Girls first physical journey starts with removal of girls from jigalong. Caged like animals in the back of train, with not enough room to stand, and little to move. Emotionally draining .Journey girls embark on is completely out of there controlGirls have an early start to hunting when grandmother explains how u have to be careful on where running, will destroy tracts. Molly has good hunting sense. Mr Neville in attempt to erase the coloured population, isolates them form the rest of the population, in order to continue cross breeding and stamp out traces of the coloured origin.Arrival at Moore River is welcomed buy a nun dressed all in white, which in aboriginal culture is symbolic for a ghost. Girls are startled.Girls watch the tracker bring back a run-away, and watch the repercussions. Her hair cut off. Followed by a beating and isolation in a lock
Footprints symbolise the journey. * Yellow indicated that the season is in autumn, or perhaps an autumnal time in a person's life, when time running out. On this journey we are presented with a choice between two different pathways. * He continued along the first path knowing that he probably would not go back and try the other path. Physically draining, beginning to test the girls true strength. Using this to advantage they begin to follow the fence. * There is an element of regret in the 3rd line in spite of the knowledge that travelling the road less travelled by " has made all the difference" * If this road is the one less travelled by then why is the reader given words and phrases which suggests that there was little if anything to choose between the 2 roads. Introduction music is traditional Aboriginal cultural beat. Molly grips the fence and thinks, at the same time her mother is at the other end grabbing it thinking. Stanza 3* This stanza tells us that travellers or the decay of leaf rot strews both paths with fresh falls of leaves, no "trodden" black. Gracie refuses to travel any further and goes to the train station where she is later caught and repossessed. * Repetition of the first line of first stanza reinforces the reflective nature of the poem. Used to set the mood and atmosphere of the movie. How does this poem relate to the concept of the journey?This poem presents an ordinary walk in the woods as a metaphor for the journey of life.
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