Indigenous Perspectives
Rabbit Proof Fence and The Rabbits
Visual Explanation
Indigenous Perspectives have been presented in texts in a variety of forms. Some include Rabbit Proof Fence and The Rabbits. I am going to explain how my visual reflects upon the Indigenous perspectives of both the texts and how I used techniques to help me.
Some parts of my visual come from The Rabbits by Shaun Tan and John Marsden. One effect that Tan has created in The Rabbits was that the rabbits were always bigger and taller than the Numbats, showing the immense power that they possessed over the Aboriginals. Tan has also showed in another part of The Rabbits the rabbits stripping the land clean of everything, the only remains are a few gears. This shows the mere destruction that the rabbits have created to the Indigenous land. On the third page, Tan has drawn the buildings on legs with no foundations, showing that the buildings do not belong to the land. Also the rat on the bottom of the page is eating the native lizard, shown in my visual as a rat biting a kangaroo. All of these effects have been incorporated into my visual.…show more content… The exact words that Chief Protector Of Aborigines Mr A.O. Neville said in Rabbit Proof Fence. Phillip Noyce, the Director of Rabbit Proof Fence portrayed Neville as superior. In my visual, Neville is bigger and taller than anything else. He is also in the very middle of the page, showing importance. As shown by the Indigenous people in the film, they call Mr Neville Mr Devil, shown clearly in my visual. In Rabbit Proof Fence all the Indigenous kids are sent to a settlement of Aboriginal and Half-Caste kids. “The Aboriginals living on the settlement were virtually prisoners”. Said Anna Haebich (ATOM, 2001). This is depicted in my visual as a dormitory jail. The Nuns are depicted as ghosts on my visual, as in the scene where the girls first arrive at the Dormitory, they thought the nun was a