What would you feel if you are taken out of your bed by the force?
Separated from your family and roots just because others see you as an inferior?
Would you be beaten and humillated until you deny your roots?
Or would you find a way to return home?
Separated from your family and roots just because others see you as an inferior?
Would you be beaten and humillated until you deny your roots?
Or would you find a way to return home?
These are the questions that came to my mind when I read Rabbit-proof Fence, the book based, sadly, in the true history of Doris Pilkington's mother: Molly Craig. This book is actually quite strong, the way in which Doris recounts the experiences of her mother, and all that it took to return to freedom, is simply epic, and is proof of the meaning of being brave and being free. There are some parts in the book that are extremely painful and sad to read, the first one being at the chapter two when Constable Riggs went to Jigalong to take the three little girls, Molly, Daisy, and Gracie, to Moore River Settlement, and when you read this part, you can kinda feel the desesperation of their families, and how painful it must be. When I noticed that the little girls are beaten and molested in Moore River Settlement just for being themselves, just for saying something in their own language, is when I started to compare this situation with other historical situation of this kind, like the Jewish Holocaust, or the African Apartheid. I don't understand why there is always someone in the world that believes that he is superior to the others just because he has a clearer skin colour or a fancy last name, and just because of that, he is on the right of stomping your beliefs and beat your culture until you are nothing but his shadow. The humanity has still a lot to learn, and Rabbit-proof Fence, among other sadly-realistic books, is just a reminder of the cruelty of the human race.
Well, your post absolutely made me wanna read the book. I, and a lot of other persons read the book "The absolutely true diary..." and I was kind of comparing both books, because, them both talk about the segregation of the ones that are different, in sherman's novel, the main character is bothered even by his own "race", so segregation is present in all ways possible. Thanks for sharing your book - experience with us!
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