The rabbits
3.2 Essay
How does an individual's perspective of, and response to a crisis define him or her? In the short story "The Rabbits" by John Marsten and Shaun Tan, the aboriginals had bountiful lands with blooming trees, grass, and foods. Their children were safe and cared for, they had their cultures and customs set into place, until the "rabbits" came. "The rabbits came by boat" (Shaun Tan, pg.90), were the aboriginals lived, they came, took over their land and made it their new home. The aboriginals are being out-casted from their homes and their land. The aboriginal elders warned them, rabbits will come take your land, but the rabbits did nothing to protect themselves. When the rabbits came they had no respect for the aboriginals and their land. "We couldn't understand the way they talked" (pg.93) shows the rabbits spoke in a different language the aboriginals couldn't understand, and it didn't seem like they wanted to teach the aboriginals their language, or try to understand their native tongue. They tore down the trees which the aboriginals lived in to make their own houses. The rabbits wanted the land to themselves, they started a fight with the aboriginals, although they didn't want to fight. They had no choice it was their home, but they lost the fights. With the rabbits winning the war it left the aboriginals homeless, and childless as the rabbits had taken their children. The rabbits had taught them their way of life and destroyed the culture the children had. The aboriginals had failed to keep their cultures alive. More rabbits kept coming until there was millions of them, not only did the rabbits take their children they ate all the aboriginals grass and turned the land bare."Where is the rich dark earth brown and moist?" (pg.110) is a question the author writes, showing how they left the aboriginals with nothing but a waste land, were they pushed them out to. The rabbits brought with them diseases and pests that swept across the lands and made
How does an individual's perspective of, and response to a crisis define him or her? In the short story "The Rabbits" by John Marsten and Shaun Tan, the aboriginals had bountiful lands with blooming trees, grass, and foods. Their children were safe and cared for, they had their cultures and customs set into place, until the "rabbits" came. "The rabbits came by boat" (Shaun Tan, pg.90), were the aboriginals lived, they came, took over their land and made it their new home. The aboriginals are being out-casted from their homes and their land. The aboriginal elders warned them, rabbits will come take your land, but the rabbits did nothing to protect themselves. When the rabbits came they had no respect for the aboriginals and their land. "We couldn't understand the way they talked" (pg.93) shows the rabbits spoke in a different language the aboriginals couldn't understand, and it didn't seem like they wanted to teach the aboriginals their language, or try to understand their native tongue. They tore down the trees which the aboriginals lived in to make their own houses. The rabbits wanted the land to themselves, they started a fight with the aboriginals, although they didn't want to fight. They had no choice it was their home, but they lost the fights. With the rabbits winning the war it left the aboriginals homeless, and childless as the rabbits had taken their children. The rabbits had taught them their way of life and destroyed the culture the children had. The aboriginals had failed to keep their cultures alive. More rabbits kept coming until there was millions of them, not only did the rabbits take their children they ate all the aboriginals grass and turned the land bare."Where is the rich dark earth brown and moist?" (pg.110) is a question the author writes, showing how they left the aboriginals with nothing but a waste land, were they pushed them out to. The rabbits brought with them diseases and pests that swept across the lands and made