How The Two White Children Survive In Walkabout
There are many reasons as to how the two white children (Peter and
Mary) survived in 'Walkabout'. Some of these reasons were due to
elements of luck, others were by making the right critical decisions,
whilst having physical and mental strength and determination and how
they adopted to their alienated environment.
To summarise briefly Peter and Mary were two white children who were
heading from Charleston to Adelaide when unexpectedly the plane they
were travelling in crashed. Due to their inexperience as children,
they left the site of the plane and walked onwards towards the plains
of the forest.
To set the scene James Vance Marshall, the author of 'Walkabout',
already is starting to give a description of the characters, and is
already aiming to develop the characters in terms of their survival.
He straight away takes advantage of Peter and Mary's inexperience with
survival when they made a critical mistake by not staying with the
plane where it landed. It was not ironic that if the children had had
their survival techniques shown near the end of the novel then they
would have stayed at the site of the wreckage.
Arguably the main reason the two children stayed alive was an
unexpected crossing with an aboriginal male, who 'was ebony black and
quite naked'. From appearance the aboriginal knew that the two white
children "were harmless as a pair of tail-less kangaroos", so the bush
boy decided to help Peter and Mary, because "not only were they
freakish in appearance and clumsy in movement, they were also
amazingly helpless: untaught unskilled, utterly incapable of fending
for themselves."
The Bush Boy kept Peter and Mary alive by various methods of catching
food ('yeemara') and water ('arkaloola') that only an aboriginal would
know how.
These methods included that you scooped the water from the bottom of
the pool when you drank, so the water tasted cold; or used a tube like
instrument to drink clear water from the bottom of a murky pool, how
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Only Stephen King could write such a spellbinding tale of a bunch of boys doing nothing but walking.
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