Year: 1955
Age: 7
I’m tired, I have the same nightmare every night. I wake up screaming and my new brother has to help me get back to sleep. My new parents ask what it was about but I can’t remember, the only thing that I can see is my Mum. They said that I won't be able to see her for ages. I miss her. I miss her face, and sometimes I can’t remember what she looks like.
When I was taken by the scary man a month ago my brothers weren’t home. The man wouldn’t have been able to get them because they are big and strong. I wish they were there because they would have punched him right in the nose.
In my new family I have a sister who is older than me, she is pretty. I also have boy that is older than her, he is nice and rocks me to sleep when …show more content…
I wanna go home.
Year: 1964
Age: 16
I have a big group of friends but recently I have felt left out. I think it is because we are learning about my culture in history and we are reading aboriginal poems in school. They find it a bit weird, I guess, that my origins are so different from them. Whenever I offer up a story of what I have researched about my past (which I am very proud of) they don’t listen, they keep on talking about the same old gossip that they always do.
I love learning about all of my past, my skin colour feels like the only connection to it I have left. I wish that I could remember my aboriginal name but it was taken away from me the day after I was taken.
Just recently I have felt lost, I have been taught to act like a ‘white’ person, but that isn’t me. Everyone around me tries so hard to make be ‘normal’, but I don’t think that I will be able to change, I don’t really want to either. I am so very happy that I have this connection to my home. At my school there are other aboriginal girls and I always wonder if they feel the same as me, or am I all alone?
Year: 1983
Age: …show more content…
The reasoning behind this was because the poem is broken up into three parts, from different times. She briefly goes explains the circumstances that she is in but I wanted to go into more detail, create more of a backstory and show the growth of Eva and add the extra part at the end, being the first Nation Wide Sorry Day. Although in the poem she still refers to the white people as aliens, I decided to make her more a forgiving character in my creative because she was very young when taken, and I wanted the only thing connecting her to her aboriginal heritage being her skin colour. Until having her baby and having all of the memories flood back into her
Age: 7
I’m tired, I have the same nightmare every night. I wake up screaming and my new brother has to help me get back to sleep. My new parents ask what it was about but I can’t remember, the only thing that I can see is my Mum. They said that I won't be able to see her for ages. I miss her. I miss her face, and sometimes I can’t remember what she looks like.
When I was taken by the scary man a month ago my brothers weren’t home. The man wouldn’t have been able to get them because they are big and strong. I wish they were there because they would have punched him right in the nose.
In my new family I have a sister who is older than me, she is pretty. I also have boy that is older than her, he is nice and rocks me to sleep when …show more content…
I wanna go home.
Year: 1964
Age: 16
I have a big group of friends but recently I have felt left out. I think it is because we are learning about my culture in history and we are reading aboriginal poems in school. They find it a bit weird, I guess, that my origins are so different from them. Whenever I offer up a story of what I have researched about my past (which I am very proud of) they don’t listen, they keep on talking about the same old gossip that they always do.
I love learning about all of my past, my skin colour feels like the only connection to it I have left. I wish that I could remember my aboriginal name but it was taken away from me the day after I was taken.
Just recently I have felt lost, I have been taught to act like a ‘white’ person, but that isn’t me. Everyone around me tries so hard to make be ‘normal’, but I don’t think that I will be able to change, I don’t really want to either. I am so very happy that I have this connection to my home. At my school there are other aboriginal girls and I always wonder if they feel the same as me, or am I all alone?
Year: 1983
Age: …show more content…
The reasoning behind this was because the poem is broken up into three parts, from different times. She briefly goes explains the circumstances that she is in but I wanted to go into more detail, create more of a backstory and show the growth of Eva and add the extra part at the end, being the first Nation Wide Sorry Day. Although in the poem she still refers to the white people as aliens, I decided to make her more a forgiving character in my creative because she was very young when taken, and I wanted the only thing connecting her to her aboriginal heritage being her skin colour. Until having her baby and having all of the memories flood back into her