The Rabbit Proof Fence

Imagine going through your day like any other normal day. Imagine waking up and taking a shower and eating breakfast. Imagine playing with your friends when suddenly strangers invade your house and take you away from your family. They throw you in the back of a truck and take you to a camp and force you to learn a different life style. You cannot talk your native language and you have to be catholic. And you had to act like a sex slave to breed your children into all white children. This was how it was for Molly, Gracie, and Daisy.

            In the film “The Rabbit Proof Fence,” the white, European men moved into the Aboriginal life style, trying to change their culture. They thought that they were helping the Aboriginals by building a fence to block off the rabbits, giving the Aborigines food and water. But, at the same time, they were taking away half of their population; the half casts. The Aborigines have their own culture and like the way they live. They don’t need the European men taking it away from them.

            As if this wasn’t bad enough, the Aborigines were beginning to be taken way from their family and sent into the Moor River Camp. There they would learn the lifestyles of the white people, speaking their language, learning their religion, and eating their food. I believe that a human being doing this to another human being is just sickening. I don’t understand how someone can see another person as some kind of animal; trying to breed him or her into a certain race.  How can the human race be so mean?

            Sadly, this isn’t the first time the human race has been so cruel, and it wont be the last. The worst of this, as you remember, was the Holocaust. The difference with this was that the Nazi’s tried to do to the Jews; tried to ultimate all of them from the world and make everyone the same race. Although this time they weren’t killing people, they still had the same intentions.

            This film really opened my eyes up to the cruelty of humans. Us as human beings need to realize that the world is filled with different kinds of people. No one will ever be the same as another. We cannot continue to try to change that fact. Just realize that everyone has his or her different ways of life. Live your life the way you want to and don’t try to make everyone like you.