Marking Time

Marking Time

1. It's marking the time change from then to now.

Cultural difference & turning points

1. It honestly depends on what term they use the term in, it is and insult if you call them that, but like in the movie when Rhanda's house was set on fire and Bullet rang Hal he meant it in a sincere way, of apology and concern.

2. They steal the scarf because they think it is a 'joke' and that there is nothing behind and assumed it was just a scarf nothing important, just an accessories like most girls wear, but to Rhanda it was more than that. And they maybe got told to steal it so they could be welcomed into a group of people or something 'cool'. 

3.Hal returning the scarf was a significant turning point because it showed Rhanda that not everybody is the same as those boys that stole her Hijab. It showed her that no one was the same as the person standing next to them. 

4. Rhanda taking her Hijab, with her fathers and they people they were staying with recognition is a scene of acceptance that this country that they are now living in is different to the one they lived in before, and they don't have to be as sacred as they were before. 

Country Town

1. We did the similarities in our book together :)

2. Yes, i do but at the same i don't like living in Ararat because there seems to be more trouble here and you cant really walk down the street expecting to be fine, like you could in a smaller country town, because you never know who is watching, or following you. 

I like how you basically know people you see walking down the street, but at the same time you could dread seeing those people down the street because once one person doesn't like you it's like the whole town hates you, its there way of showing this is their community and that your not welcome, or mess with this person and your also messing with me.



3. I would organise a festival for some of the disadvantaged people, they can't go to your average festival because they have down syndrome and they are picked on constantly, id make it for kids with heart problems or any kind of disease so that it was there day to forget about what their fighting what they look like, afraid of being bullied for who they are, i make it special for them, and i would go around asking what kind of rides they want, what activities they like, and all the funds would go to the charities. That's what i would really like to do, because knowing that they had a smile on their face was because of me. 


Characters

1. At the start Rhanda was so worried about everything, she had to do everything right, or there was some kind of punishment to her and her father, she hadn't really settled in, that she was in a different country with different rules, she hadn't realised that she was free, that not everything was bad and that the people in Brackley were different. And towards the end she seemed more relaxed and free. Happy