The Rabbit Proof Fence

I just finish reading this book a few hours ago and I couldn't help myself to watch the movie before doing the blog entry. And if it wasn't enough, I saw some fanmade videos about the film.
This book it's about three half-caste aboriginal girls who were sent to Moore River Native Settlement because the Australian Government considered that mixed-race should be educated as any other citizen, but at the same time, they only see them as future servants for white people. But this three sister (Molly,14/Gracie,10/Daisy,8) were not going to accept the fact that they would be taken from their families and sent away, and that's why they decided to run away from the settlement and make their own way home. 

The story that Rabbit Proof Fence present us it's not one of those stories that we usually hear or read. If you are part of the "Beginer" group (and if you already read it) you'll know how deep the narration is, this is why I would like to share with you a part of one specific chapter and scene.

                                                 Chapter 7- Losing Gracie

In this part of the book, Gracie decided that she's not longer able to get back home, she's to tired because of all the days that they have been walking through the desert. That morning they saw a train station and Gracie wanted to get closer, after that, she came back to where Daisy and Molly were and told them that according to a woman who worked on the train station, her mother left from Jingalong and  was now living in a place call Wiluna, so she thinks that the best thing to do it's take the train until Wiluna and meet there with her mother. This is a really emotional part; the other two girls cry, because they both  know that her sister it's probably walking to a tramp and that they might never see her again...

Now, the same scene in the movie:
It's pretty much the same, the girls separated and Gracie decides to leave. Except for this:  Gracie is taken while she's waiting for the train, but she's not alone, her sisters are watching all that happens from the bushes, incapable to do anything while they see Gracie in the back seat of a black car. (5:28)

When I finished this book I told to my older sister about it, and she couldn't believe that this was a real story, and neither the age of the girls when they did this journey looking for their way back home. Definitely the braveness that they had was unreal, as their strait; they were just little girls who shouldn't pass for what they had to lived, as many other children, they should feel and be safe in the place where they were born.

Finally, and as Hazel Grace said once, "nothing is too messed up that can't be fixed with a Peter Gabriel song", so here's a fanmade video about the movie so you can have a better idea of what this book it's about and maybe encourage to read it and realize about a different and sad reality that some people had to live .