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BlueBack :star: (Chapter 1 (Characters (Able is a 10 year old boy who…
BlueBack :star:
Chapter 1
Characters
Able is a 10 year old boy who lives with his Mum. They go snorkelling/ diving for Abalone in the sea near where they live.
groper
It is a big blue fish. He is described as old, smart and clever.He likes to interact with humans. Able names him BlueBack.
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Chapter 3
School
Able wasnt really interested in school and got in trouble for daydreaming again. He want sto study fish when he grows up.
Relationships
Able and Blueback beome friends who are able to play with each other. Abel's mother has a memorial peppermint tree where she goes to remember he husban. Many of the things his dad knew can be seen in his mum's actions
Chapter 2
Home
They are self-sufficient growing their own vegtables, fruit and collecting their own meats. Able Jackson just lives with his mum. HIs dad is presumed dead with no body buried in the cemetery.
At the sea
They go to find BlueBack but only find crayfish. Blueback comes out of a crevice and steals the fish. He goes to eat it somewhere.
Chapter 4
Mad Macka
He has an abalone diver who came to they bay every year on the way to the coast. He knew about Blueback and gave Able reassurance about not getting him. He died of a heart-attack (under water) Author has put this death in- is he telling us something important is going to happen to Able?
Chapter 5
Leaving Long Boat bay
Able is now 13 and is leaving Long Boat Bay to go to the school in the mainland. He doesn't want to go as he knows he belongs at long boat bay. Able doesn't like living with out his mum and blueback.
Chapter 6
The letter
It is close to the school holidays and Able can't wait to see his mum, long boat bay and most of all Blueback. Before the holidays Able's mum wrote him a letter saying that there was a new abolone diver would be working part time for the coast season and that Mad Mackas family decided to give his boat to Able. Boat, tralier the lot.
Chapter 7
Ties to the ocean
Able's life will be tied to the ocean in some way. Able's mum never wants to leave. She wants to grow old and die there.
Rescuring BlueBack.
- They watch Costello work up the coast 2. Able can't stand it and decides to go out to Costello's boat. Mum goes too 3. They climb into his boat and see the slaughter. 4. Able throghs out the abalone. His mum goes down under the water. 5. Blueback comes out to the food and starts playing. 6. Able goes into the water and runs out of air. 7. Mum goes between Blueback and the divers and punched him in the face. 8. Blueback leaves and mum comes back to the surface out of breath.
Chapter 8
Abel watches a tiger shark die because it was caught up on a line set by Costello. Tim Winton is giving us a message about what we are doing to animals in the ocean.
Chapter 9
High school
Able is in his high school years when he left long boat bay for the first day he felt like he took a deep breath and held onto that. During the years he thought is mum would marry again.
Selling
In these years Able was at school there were business men who came to long boat bay and saw lots of potential. So they asked Dora to sell it she said no but the kept going at giving her money, gifts ect but she always said no. About 5 years later they stopped asking.
Chapter 10
Graduated from school
Able has now graduated from school. When he came home from school all the pilchards had died. The whole beache was black. Able was looking at pictures and could see his dad in him.
Chapter 11
University
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Stella
Able met a girl she loved the sea to she grow up in the desert and didn't sea the ocean until she was 12 her name is Stella. That summer Able bought her home to Longboat bay and asked her to marry him.
Chapter 12
Able Jackson beacame a marine biologist and married one as well. With Stella they travelled all of the world diving in all types of oceans. The water was getting pulluted.
Chapter 13
Dora for years gets scared of the storms and this year she found a leopared seal, died dolphins, one year the saman never came. She was walking along the beach and saw all the whale bones she has been walking over for years. She was getting old she couldn't walk to the ochards any more.
Chapter 14
- The night Able returned they through a party on the verandah at Longboat bay. Dora Jackson told stories, they were all going to bed when Dora Jackson fell down the stairs onto the hard dirt. 2. The long weeks Dora was in hospital Able began to clean out the old Jackson house. Stella told Able that we can stay in Longboat bay.
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Chapter 15
After a few years Able's mother could no longer walk along the beach she loves. She was to frail to dive any more and to stiff to pick the vegetables and fruit. Able carried his mother to the water one last time. The next afternoon she died in her sleep
Chapter 16
Able never regretted staying at Longboat bay. The bay grew rich with life as the fish came. Able and Stella went back be scientists. On young Doras 3rd birthday she took her first dive off Robbers Head.