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How do the two White children survive in 'Walkabout'?  

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There are many reasons as to how the two white children (Peter and Mary) survived in 'Walkabout'. Some of these reasons were due to elements of luck, others were by making the right critical decisions, whilst having physical and mental strength and determination and how they adopted to their alienated environment. To summarise briefly Peter and Mary were two white children who were heading from Charleston to Adelaide when unexpectedly the plane they were travelling in crashed. Due to their inexperience as children, they left the site of the plane and walked onwards towards the plains of the forest. To set the scene James Vance Marshall, the author of 'Walkabout', already is starting to give a description of the characters, and is already aiming to develop the characters in terms of their survival. He straight away takes advantage of Peter and Mary's inexperience with survival when they made a...

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