![]() ![]() There was a flash of lightning, followed by another. "We’d better hurry, it’s going to rain again." They stood briefly on the verandah to watch the thunder clouds rumbling in the west. Molly plans to find the rabbit-proof fence and follow it all the way home, but their journey is not so simple.Doris Pilkington is the author of Caprice: A Stockman’s Daughter, a novel which tells the fictional story of three generations of Aboriginal women. Garimara passed at the age of 76 in Perth. "We all know it’s awful," said Martha. Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence is Garimara’s best-known book, having been adapted into a 2002 film starring Kenneth Branagh.It was more like a concentration camp, then a residential school for aboriginal children."I don’t feel like climbing the hill," said Martha.They lay feeling cold and lonely, listening to the sound of rain bouncing off the tin roof.If you go to the school you don’t see your family for years and years.Ĭhapter 7-The Moore River Native Settlement, 1930.George told them about the many the races of people in the world. ![]() ![]() ![]() Rain clouds were gathering and by the time they reached the bend where large grey boulders loomed along either side of the road, the sky was black with rain clouds. All they knew was that they were going to the settlement to go to school.1.2 Chapter 7-The Moore River Native Settlement, 1930. ![]()
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