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Rick
Camels
Anthropomorphism
Diggity
Jenny & Toly
Sallay
Helps her to understand the realities of the outback
Bull situation
Develops her with the camels
Kurt
Forces her to develop beyond the "archetypal female"
Robyn has to become resilient
"concrete down my spine"
Eddie
Impact on Robyn
Teaches Robyn to understand the land - Indigenous perspective
Restrictions like time
Takes on board, advice on Kangaroo
Doesn't resent them in the same manner as Chris
Father encourages
Traumatic past
Why
Sense of independence
Criticisms of society
Traditional paths
Self-indulgent negativity
Misogyny & Racism
Leaving society to trek across the Australian outback
Not as extreme as Chris, sees people during the trip (Eddie, Rick)
Keeps radio
Wayne
Given practical advice
Ignores advice (about fire)
Writers
Feed his romantic notions of nature
Tolstoy "people"
Ron
Impacted by:
Pushes his boundaries
Gets him to hike
Adopted habits of sob
Physical tools which teaches him about forgiveness
Jan + Rainey
Impact by:
Helps with relationship problems
Helps Jan to discuss son and acts as son
Impact on:
Ignores advice "leaves and berries"
Rainey suggests forgiveness
Ultimately evidence of the importance of human relationships
How
Leaves behind society
Personal regrowth and development
Why (formative experience)
Education
Apartheid (inhumanity of humanity)
"Sick society"
Authors who inform philosophy
Parents
"fragility of Chrystal"
Lies & Violence
"parents, hypocrites, politicians, pricks"
"daily bouts of rage"
"fraudulent marriage"
"a murder of everyday's truth"
Death of Diggity
"Before that moment, I had always supposed that loneliness was my enemy. I had seemed not to exist without people around me. But now I understood that I had always been a loner, and that this condition was a gift rather than something to be feared"
The meaning of love
Ignored
Ron emphasises the importance of human relationships
"You're wrong if you think the joy of life comes principally from human relationships" - Chris
"making something of life?" - Ron
Rainey warns cautions about rejecting family
"Children can be pretty harsh when it comes to their parents" - Rainey
Wayne warns Chris about
Practical advice
Going into Alaska in Spring
"Remember Alex, no Alaska till spring." - Wayne
Resentment
"Can't be juggling blood and fire all the time" - Wayne
Jan warns Chris about consuming leaves and berries
"You can't depend entirely on leaves and berries" - Jan
Dies from consuming plants
Learnt
"Happiness is only real when shared."
"When you forgive, you love. And when you love...God's light shines on you" - Ron
Camera close ups
Chris looking up at sun shining prior to death
Lighting
Chris' death is heavily filtered with a dark hue over the shots
Subtopic
Chris enjoys time at the sunny lit Slabs
Nature is unpredictable
"I'm fucking hungry" - Chris
Chris tiny compared to the wild
Psychological
Isolation
Parents' voices
"Do you hear me woman?" - Chris
LA scene
Alienated, scared back into the wild
Panning shots of buildings
Fails to cook the moose
Breaks down
Camera zoom in
Zoomed in shot of maggots
Physical
Crossing the River
Camera long shots
Chris looks small in comparison, unable to get to beanie (humanity / human connection)
Race
"Here blacks were forbidden"
"there's nothing damn well wrong with the blacks except what the whites do to them"
"a vastly superior white world:aimless, wanderers who were backward, primitive and stupid"
"the blacks were unequivocally the enemy - dirty, lazy, dangerous"
Gender
"God's majestic hidey-hole, where men are men and women are an afterthought"
“next town rape case”.
"it is such a female syndrome"
"Listen 'ere lady, you're fucking done for. Them c**ns'll rape youze for sure"
"where's yer old man"
"half finished, half hearted attempts at different jobs and various studies"
"had been sick of carrying around the self-indulgent negativity which was so much the malaise of my generation, my sex and my class"
“shuttup and get out”
Traditional Paths
"Son, don't you think you ought to be getting an education? And a job? And making something of this life?"- Mr.Franz
"I think careers are a 20th century invention, and I don't want one. You don't need to worry about me. I have a college education." - Chris
Yelling at Mr. Franz, emphasises anger
"He just graduated today from Emory College." -Walt
"fulfilling the absurd and tedious duty of graduating from college" - Carine
Regulation & Order
"A in Apartheid in South African Society." - Carine
"escape from history and oppression and law and irksome obligations. Absolute freedom" - Wallace Stegner (intertextual reference)
Materialism
"now he was emancipated from that world of abstraction, false security, parents and material excess," - Carine
"These things, things, things, things."
"I don't need a new car. I don't want a new car." - Chris
Close up shot of his agitation
The Deer
Long shots of deer in the wilderness
Apple scene
Close up camera shots of romantic looks
"I mean, you're really good."
Solace
"I'm going to be all the way out there" Chris
"I've been wounded I've been healed" Eddie Vedder
"characteristic immoderation"
"give me truth" Thorean
"society, you're a crazy breed" Eddie Vedder
Condition for growth
Allows for learning/discovery
"the presence of force not bound to be kind to man"
Need to be close to the animals to survive in the wild
Redemptive
River scene crossing back into society
"I'll keep this wisdom in my flesh"
Appreciation for society
Diagetic sound of water stream running
Failure to prepare the moose
Non-diagetic sounds of tense strings
"No! No! Damn it!"
Diagetic sounds of moose being sliced
"Rained in - LONELY"
Close up on his writing
"You hear me? You hear me, woman?"
Positive
Conditions for self-discovery
"Desert, purity, fire, air, hot wind, space, sun, desert desert desert."
Truth & Beauty
"orange tail-feathers screeched their music through the high trees; sunlight exploded"
"translucent, filtered through the leaves and created a fairy land."
"tall columns of silver eucalypts, winds through the town, then cuts into a narrow gap in the mountains"
"endless pink tracks leading to the shimmering horizon, and then there was nothing but the dry red parchment of the dead heart"
Solitude
"now I understood that I had always been a loner"
"It became an animate being of which I was a part"
"He repeated this over and over and I swore I would never do such a thing."
Negative
Threat to survival
Physical threats
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"To enter that country is to be choked with dust, suffocated by waves of thrumming heat"
Loneliness
"I really did enjoy the company of animals better than people"
Indifferent
"where the desert was larger than I could comprehend"
"They have an awesome grandeur that can fill you with exaltation or dread, and usually a combination of both."
"architectural ugliness of the place, a discomforting contrast to the magnificence of the country which surrounded it."
