Keep The River On Your Right Summary

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Review on the Book Mutant Message Down Under The literature work of Keep the River on your Right belongs to an anthropologist by the name Tobias Schneebaum. The work is quite interesting as it takes an outlook of a memoir explaining the experiences of the writer in life with primitive tribe presumed to be cannibalistic. The work expresses more of jungle experiences that the author had with primitive Indian communities in the jungle. On the other hand, there is a comparable book to the film Keep the River on your Right. From an analytic standpoint, the book Mutant Message Down Under is quite important in expressing experiences in the journal, it’s amazing how it ties to many things in the book. The book records the experiences of an American …show more content…

No matter what’s going on in life; we always need every kind of communication there is, that way not only will it help who ever the person is reading, but everyone around will get a better understanding what where the message is trying to say. The chief reason behind the argument is that some of the cultural practices that people carry out do not involve verbal communication. The practices might just be acts that one needs to observe and understand as the person can see what the respective community does as well as the key points and aspects the community focuses. In the book, several parts of the book use non-verbal communication. A good example in the book is through the interactions that the author had with the aboriginal communities in the Australian context. In most of the occasion where one wants to learn about new cultures, the person just observes in silence and learns most of the aspects he or she wanted to learn from the cultures of the respective community. Based on the above perspective, non-verbal communication is important in the field of communication. Also, not only is it important, but communication is everywhere and in every subject, we have every study about. Without communications, nothing in the world will work well because of communication. For example, it’s like saying it’s the last piece of the puzzle, without the last piece we can move on and …show more content…

Both the book and the film have wilderness-like settings as the express people’s experiences in the jungle. Wilderness settings are quite intriguing and interesting to most of the targeted audience as they help shape heroism in a person. As one survives in harsh conditions, he or she tends to become a hero of the community and a trendsetter through the bravery and survival techniques one applies in dealing with the harsh experiences in the wilderness. Based on the book Mutant Message Down Under, the protagonist stays in the Australian desert climates with a group of about 60 aborigines, which is quite heroic. Another comparable factor between the book and the film is the use non-verbal communication. In both the book and the film, the people involved learning survival tactics in the wilderness in silence, where they learn quite a lot and apply the learnt knowledge to help them survive in the conditions presumed to be quite harsh and difficult to

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