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Chargement... Who am I?: The Diary of Mary Talence, Sydney, 1937 (2001)par Anita Heiss
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. This entire series is a wonderful way to learn history or teach it to adolescents. I find today's generations seem to recall more when they learn through other people (pop songs, celebrity gossip, etc.), so what better way to teach history than through someone else's perspective? Yes, "authentic" diaries would be "better", but would the language really hold the modern student's attention? Did the diary writer know what WOULD be important in the context of history? Probably not. It's written by an indigenous Australian and deals with the problems of the Stolen Generation, where Indigenous children were taken from their parents and if their skin was 'light' enough, taken to white families. Although essentially light, it was a great book. We have a small group set, so I'm looking forward to teaching with it later in the year. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
I woke up this morning and I couldn't stop crying, cos this place is not my home, even though everyone says it is. When I was a little girl Mum would always hug me when I cried and tell me everything would be all right. Who's gunna hug me here? Mary lives with the Burkes, but they're not her real family. She hasn't seen her real mum and dad since she was taken away from them five years ago. Everyone tells her to forget about them, but she can't. She wants to find out why she was taken, and where she really belongs. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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It was really touching and the audience receives a great recount on the suffering and taunting Mary deals with at a white school. What Mary had originally thought to be a perfect world, turned out to be a world where Aboriginal people faced many hardships living in a white society where they were not white Australians. Mary goes through many changes as the story progresses and as her innocence slowly disappears as she herself experiences what others have been for many years. This is a greatly recommended book talking about the Stolen Generations' thousands of victims with a touch a childlike innocence.