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The assessment the question I could of understood better was "explaining why the connection to the land is so important to Australia indigenous identity''
By reading over the text and making sure I understood the contexts. Reading over the question to make sure I knew exactly what the question was asking me. Explaining my answer to the best of my ability and in technical detail.  If I come across a similar question I can take precautions  and learn from this experience.

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The Australian TV series Redfern Now shows the story of six inner city households whose lives are changed by a seemingly insignificant incident. Australian actors  are at their best in these episodes on crime and racism. This particular episode of Redfern ''stand up'' was about a low income family doing it tough. Their only son gets accepted to one of the richest schools in Australia on a scholarship. When their son gets expelled from his new school,  his parents tell him to march back through the doors and stand up for what he believes in. In the end he stood up for his culture and was let into school again.

The techniques that were demonstrated throughout this episode were close up shots & eye level shots.

Close up shot's show the character's face and emotional responses to situations and events.  Eye level shots allow the audience to see things from the characters perspective.

These two examples are both shown throughout this episode. The emotional rollercoaster that Joel and his parents have to go through in order to stand up for what they believe in. Eye level shots and close ups capture the struggle and heartbreak that Joel has gone through because he cherishes his culture.

A fifteen year old aboriginal boy who stood up for his religion and ended up getting expelled. He keeps coming back and showing resilience by returning to school. With his parent's full support and love he ends up going back to school even though he  experiences racism. The episodes highlights the prejudice towards an aboriginal student from an under privileged background, compared to the other students from well off families

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Redfern Now is a television series on the ABC. One episode
is based on an aboriginal boy named Joel Shields who gets a scholarship to  Clifton Grammar School, one of the richest schools in the country. Because he is aboriginal his religious beliefs and cultural beliefs are different to white society. At this school everyone is made to sing the national anthem regardless of their cultural background. The principal notices that he is not singing the anthem. He tells him that he has to sing. He refuses day after day until he is finally expelled from the school. As the episode goes on he gets his way and stands up for himself. He stands up for his beliefs and gets to come back to school. The TV series is based on culture identity.

One of the techniques that is shown through the whole episode was Characterisation.

Joel was like any other normal teenager who  got an amazing opportunity to go to the most academic school in the country. And  being aboriginal this was a huge privilege to him and his family.

The main character experiences racism and questions himself a lot on why was he doing this. And what was the purpose of  attending this school. With family full support he gets through it.

Because of Joel's religion and culture, he didn't  believe that he should have to sing the National Anthem. But because he was at a  private school, every morning everyone was made to stand up and sing. It didn't matter what religious or cultural background you came from. In this episode it displayed discrimination and racism. It also showed Joel's courage for standing up for what he believed in and shows culture identity.

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REDFERN NOW

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"It is no secret" by Australian aboriginal author Donna Meehan. This novel is based  on her own battles and challenges that she had to face not knowing where she is from, or why she doesn't  belong. Her life journey is to find herself. On the way she encountered racism, moving around a lot and not having a place to call home and difficulty making friends. In the end she reunites with her family.

This imagery technique gives you a visual image or an idea in such a way that it appeals to our physical senses. She describes her surroundings in detail to give the reader the sense that they are there with her.

'' The walls and ceiling inside the train were a drab dark brown colour and the seats a  lighter brown, so I concentrated on red and yellow pattern on my new dress'', explaining what she was seeing and her personal thoughts on her first train ride.

The imagery was a visual effect. Everyone could imagine or visualise what she was seeing or feeling at that point of time.  Donna users imagery throughout the novel to tell of her own experiences on herself and her culture. It also makes the reader think about their own experiences in life. The reader compares their life to Donna's and imagines what it would be like if they were taken away from their own family.

Throughout the book imagery is used. The reader feels her pain of not knowing where you are going or where you belong. You get a sense of what it was like to be taken from your family and being part of the stolen generation in Australia.

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The novel "It is no Secret" by aboriginal woman Donna Meehan. It is a true story based on her life and her own experience of the stolen generations. She explains what it felt like to be a victim of the stolen generation. The theme in this novel is a sense of belonging in the world and the challenges that she had knowing part of her was missing. Her being taken away from home and moved to a white society. And how she finds herself understanding her place and her true identify in the world.

One of the techniques that Donna Meehan has shown throughout the novel is emotional language.
''standing there with tears rolling down their cheeks too fast to wipe away''
''I bust into tears and sobbed so hard that I did wake them''

Both quotes shown her emotional struggles on the train. The first quote is when she was on the train at the window staring into her mothers eyes. Thinking that she will never see her mother or her family again. The second quote was when she didn't know what was happening and her brothers didn't know either. It left her feeling terrified and not knowing where she was going and what was going to happen to her and her brothers.

Donna Meehan is a very strong woman. Having been through the traumatic experiences of her past, taken away from her family then re-located to new places. Having a  new family then brought up in a white society. Feeling out of place and experiencing bullying and racism.  Finding herself through all of this and finding her family and her cultural identity.

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IT IS NO SECRET