Walkabout Essay -- Australia Aborigines Literature Essays

WalkaboutThis story is about two children who are stranded in the Australianoutback after a plane crash. By chance they play an Aborigine boy whois on his walkabout. From these two contrastive groups of people meeteach other(a), it shows the reader how much people can learn from othersand how different we every last(predicate) are.bloody shames first inclination is to mother Peter. She feels amenable forhim and he depends on her. But she feels inadequate in this newenvironment. perpetually she had protected Peter, had smoothed things outand made them easy for him molly-coddled him like an dying(p) hen,her father had once said. But how could she protect him now? Then the scrub boy comes across their path and things become tense between thechildren and aborigine.The in truth first thing Mary notices about the Aborigine is that he is very black and naked. She finds this very disturbing, The thing thatshe couldnt accept, the thing that seemed to her shockingly andindecently wron g, was the fact that the boy was naked. As the twocultures confront each other they just stare at each other in agnosticism and wonder, Between them the distance was less than thespread of an outstretched arm, but more than a hundred thousandyears.They had climbed a long way up the ladder of progress they hadclimbed so far, in fact, that they had forgotten how their climb hadstarted They had had everything provided for them and had never hadto fend for themselves. It was very different with the Aboriginal wayof lifespan. He knew what truth was. Their lives were unbelievablysimple compared to the aborigine. They had no homes, no crops, noclothes, no possessions. The a couple of(prenominal) things they had they shared feed andwives children and l... ...least offended by it. Peter and Mary unify verynaturally with these Aborigine strangers. The women swim together andshare food and Peter as been drawn to a particular man indoors thetribe. The man looks at the drawings they had done earlier of a houseand realises that they bring to find civilisation. He draws them a map,which ends in a house so they know where to go. Before they leavePeter takes in the beauty of their environment he knew in thatmoment that every detail of what hed seen in the last two weeks hedremember for he rest of his life. He then leads the way via the mapto civilisation and Mary follows. It makes you hope that they willtake back with them into their civilised culture all they havelearned from the Aboriginal people and their strange ways of life withtheir fantasy lands, spiritual gods and there true sense of belonging.