It was a history of unrest with raids and kidnappings of women perpetrated by white men. The book opens with historical information about the first English people to arrive in Western Australia and their interactions with the Aboriginals who lived there. Pilkington uses the third person voice and constructs her text by using, among other research, interviews with her mother and Daisy. This rabbit-proof fence ran through the western part of Australia from north to south. They then begin a journey home of close to 1,000 miles by following a fence designed to keep out pests. After being taken from their families, they manage to escape from the government settlement in 1931. Three young girls are central to the narrative: Pilkington’s mother, Molly, Molly’s sister Daisy, and their cousin Gracie. The Stolen Generation was the result of an early twentieth century practice of having children who were of mixed race removed from their families and placed in government compounds. Australian Doris Pilkington’s work of nonfiction Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence, published in 1996, relates the story of a native Australian family’s experiences as part of what came to be known as the Stolen Generation.
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