Comparative Tracks and Charlie's Country Quotes only

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BEAR Quotes (Quotes only) Comparative for Tracks (Robyn Davidson, published by Bloomsbury Publishing, 2013), and Charlie's Country (directed by Rolf de Heer, 2013)

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Text summaries from the 2021 VCAA Text List

Tracks

Robyn Davidson’s 2700-kilometre trek from Alice Springs to the Indian Ocean in 1977 with camels became famous due to a National Geographic article focused on the journey of a heroine driven to achieve a personal goal, despite the patronising disbelief of those around her. Davidson’s 1980 memoir highlights an adventurer with a great affinity for the environment, empathy for Australia’s Indigenous people and a determination to achieve, despite setbacks. Told with brutal honesty, this story of the internal and external battle against the sandhills, spinifex and interminable space presents the reader with an intriguing study of a woman who tests herself in the isolation of the wilderness.

Charlie's Country

Rolf de Heer’s film, co-written by and starring David Gulpilil, follows the protagonist Charlie’s attempts to define himself in the world. His revolts against the intrusion of mainstream Australian life in the Arnhem land of his home leads him to a failed attempt to live off the land, to hospital, to degradation in Darwin and to prison. Told with humour and an oblique style, the film addresses ideas of identity and failure in worlds that sit uneasily with each other. The struggles particular to Indigenous peoples are twinned with ordinary anxieties associated with how we understand ourselves and our places in the world. (Rating: M)