Tracks and Charlie\'s Country Quotes PDF

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it is a compilation of tracks and charlie's country quotes that are organised into themes and it also has a sample essay plan....

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ISOLATION CHARLIE’S COUNTRY “Do you mind if I call you Charlie? I have difficulty pronouncing foreign names.” “Now I’m a foreigner?” (Charlie and the Darwin doctor) “It's isolated, it's remote.” (Policeman Luke on Ramingining) “I work for them catching criminals, they don’t pay me.” (Charlie) “I don’t know what’s wrong with him… shaming us.” (Pete on Charlie) TRACKS “My aloneness was a treasure which I guarded like a jewel... but like everything [it] had to follow the laws of change.” (p. 40) “No more loved ones to care about, no more ties, no more duties, no more people needing you to be one thing or another, no more conundrums, no more politics, just you and the desert baby.” (p. 94) “I could never enter their reality; [I] would always be a whitefella tourist on the outside looking in.” (p. 146) “I could not be with the Aboriginal people without being a clumsy intruder.” (p. 146)

CONFORMITY CHARLIE’S COUNTRY "Live the old way…going to my Mother Country.’"(Charlie) “F--- Those thieving…white bastards.” (Charlie) “The kids go to school now. They don’t care.” (Charlie) “Why did you come here? From far away… stealing people’s stuff! Is this your land? F---ing bastards.” (Charlie) “I’m free now. I have my own supermarket! And this is my country! I can dance with it!” (Charlie) TRACKS “(Dropping eyes to chest level).”Where’s yer old man?" "I don't have an old man." (p. 5) “I was self-protective, suspicious and defensive and I was also aggressively ready to pounce on anyone who looked like they might be going to give a hard time.” (p. 34) “It was essential for me to develop beyond the archetypal female creature who from birth had been trained to be sweet, pliable, forgiving, compassionate and door-mattish.” (p. 34) “I wanted to… unclog my brain of all extraneous debris, not be protected, to be stripped of all social crutches, not to be hampered by any outside interference.” (p. 91)

BELONGING AND IDENTITY CHARLIE’S COUNTRY “You’ve got a job, and you’ve got a house…on my land. Where’s my house? Where’s my job?” (Charlie) “We need to teach them… the traditional ways.” (Charlie’s friend) “I’ve been away fishing, now I’m home. I’m eating well. It’s my own supermarket.” (Charlie) “I’m free now. I have my own supermarket! And this is my country! I can dance with it!” (Charlie) TRACKS “This was my first home, where I felt such a sense of relief and belonging that I needed nothing and no one.” (p. 40) “From the day the thought came into my head ‘I’m going to enter a desert with camels’, to the day I felt the preparations to be completed, I had built some intangible but magical for myself…” (p. 95) “I wanted to understand so much… I melted into a feeling of belonging. They were letting me into their world. They asked me if I wanted to dance.” (p. 145) “Once dispossessed of this land, ceremonial life deteriorates, people lose their strength, meaning and identity.” (p. 167)

CONNECTION TO NATURE CHARLIE’S COUNTRY “There’s lots of food in the bush… It's like a supermarket out there.” (Charlie’s companion) “Then you’ll die in the wrong place… a long way from your country… They’ll be no one with you, no one to look after you.” (Charlie to a friend) “I was born in the bush. They didn’t find me in the bush.” (Charlie) “I want to go home now...back to my own country...where my place is...” (Charlie) TRACKS “All around me was magnificence. Light, power, space and sun. And I was walking into it. I was going to let it make me or break me.” (p. 101)

“It is difficult to describe Australian desert ranges as their beauty is not just visual. They have an awesome grandeur that can fill you with exaltation or dread, and usually a combination of both.” (p. 122) “Besides, no amount of anthropological detail can begin to convey Aboriginal feeling for their land. It is everything -their law, their ethics, their reason for existence.” (p. 167) “And just as Aborigines seem to be in perfect rapport with themselves and their country, so the embryonic beginnings of that rapport were happening to me.” (p. 193)

ANTHROPOMORPHISM IN TRACKS “They are haughty, ethnocentric, clearly believing they are god’s chosen race. But they are also cowards and their aristocratic demeanor hides delicate hearts. I was hooked.” (p. 14) “[The camels] hung around me like flies, shuffling their feet, looking embarrassedly at the ground or coyly through their elegant lashes, acting apologetic and loving and remorseful…” (p. 80) “Diggity had become a cherished friend rather than simply a pet.” (p. 227) “[Diggity] combined all the best qualities of god and human and was a great listener." (p. 207)

CINEMATOGRAPHY IN CHARLIE’S COUNTRY  Several wide angle, landscape shots of nature, both at the beginning of the film and when Charlie first enters the Australian wilderness.  Close up shots of Charlie sitting by the fire, and when he is in prison.  Panoramic shots of Aboriginal art that Charlie discovers in the wild.  Panoramic shot also in the courtroom where Charlie is on trial.

Sample Essay Plan Compare how Tracks and Charlie’s Country present the importance of Individualism. Sample Introduction: Set amidst an era of significant social and political change, Robyn Davidson’s autobiographical memoir ‘Tracks’ and Rolf de Heer’s film ‘Charlie’s Country’ explores the plight of individuals who embrace individualism. Both Davidson and de Heer assert that individualism is necessary for the protagonists, who find themselves marginalised from the wider population. Through their respective journeys to independence, Robyn and Charlie achieve a sense of empowerment through identity self-refashioning, as well as they express their disapproval of the toxic institutions of society. However, the text and the film also demonstrate how at times, embracing individualism can present challenges to those who pursue it. Ultimately, Davidson and de Heer commend those who do not fully conform to society. Paragraph 1: Charlie and Robyn gain empowerment through independently establishing their own identity. Robyn sees the trip as a demonstration to herself of the shedding of the traditional image of white, middle class woman: “Am I an individualist because I believe I can take control of my own life? If so, then yes, I was definitely that.” “I had… been sick of carrying around the self-indulgent negativity which was so much the malaise of my generation, my sex and my class.” Describes the experience as a “gentle catharsis” and that “[She] was happy”. Charlie’s abandonment of the Ramingining community is an attempt to resolve the identity ambiguity he feels as a result of the Government intervention. Charlie appears to receive government benefits only to have to give it away to family, later divulging that “I have no money left… or food. I’m hungry”. When he tries to source food by traditional means, he is punished. All this demonstrates his struggles in balancing two cultures. Going back into his “Motherland” he is joyful, dancing and eating again. Recognises a sense of security in going back -“That’s what I want”, “now I’m home”. Paragraph 2: Embracing individualism for the protagonists means resisting toxic societal constructs. Robyn adamantly condemns the deeply entrenched racism of Australian culture and sympathises with the Aborigines and their hardship. Her determination to learn about the Aboriginal people is an attempt to overcome the wedge that has been driven between the two communities: “Racism is a daily experience for blacks in Alice Springs. It reinforces their own feelings of worthlessness and self-hate.” “Large mining corporations… lusting after Aboriginal Reserve land.” The dependency of the Aboriginal people termed as a “handy PR stunt” for government and policies equated to “apartheid in South Africa”. Charlie becomes increasingly resistant against the traditions and policies of the government institutions. Many times he is seen throwing cigarettes into the fire -- his resentment towards the introduction of white customs. "You come from far away and bring us alcohol, ganja, tobacco... all bad!" Charlie rejects the white lifestyle by refusing to eat the food in the community, recognising its detrimental properties. Charlie on illness: “It’s all that… white man junk food we eat." Paragraph 3: Resisting conformity is challenging for Robyn and Charlie, particularly in an oppressive society. Robyn is met with harsh opposition and derogatory depictions in the media: Labelled “the next town rape case.” Discovers feces on her pillow one night in Alice Springs -- “let my presence be known as if I were a trespasser.” “‘Camel lady’ had that nice patronising belittling ring to it.”

Charlie is constantly shut down when embracing the ways of his culture; ultimately submitting to individualism also unveils his dependency on white society. He is charged with ‘recreational shooting’, and his hunting spear is considered "a dangerous weapon." Charlie’s confession earlier about his false teeth: “I can’t eat with them… I can eat without them” alluding to this dependency on society. The irreversible damage of white intervention is evident in Charlie’s poor health as a consequence of going back to “the old way” -- must go to the hospital...