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🐟Blueback🐟 (Chapter 1 (Groper (It is a big blue fish, He is described as…
🐟Blueback🐟
Chapter 1
Groper
It is a big blue fish, He is described as old, smart and clever. He likes to interact with humans. Abel names him blueback.
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Characters
Abel is a 10 year old boy who lives with his Mum. They go snorkelling/diving for abalone in the sea near where they live
Chapter 2
Home
They are self-sufficent growing their own vegetables, fruit and collecting their own meats. Abel JAckson jst lives with his mum. His dad is presumed dead with no body buried in the cemetary.
At sea
They go to find Blueback but only find a crayfish. Blueback comes out of a crevice and steals the fish. He goes to eat it somewhere.
Chapter 3
School
Abel wasn't really interested in school and got in trouble for daydreaming again. He wants to study fish when he grows up.
Relationships
Abel and Blueback become friends who are able to play with each other. Abel's Mum has a memorial peppermint tree where she goes to remeber his dad knew can be seen in his mum's actions.
Chapter 5
Boarding School
Abel moved to a town to go to school. he stayed in a hostel. he didn't like going because the bay was his place and where he belonged. He didn't like the crowd of people around him.
Dreaming
Abel dreamt that Blueback took him to a deep crevice where he found the bodies of little girls, Mad Macka, his father and some sailors. Blueback dragged him free in the dream and he woke up crying. This is the second time the author has mentioned death- what is he foreshadowing? Who is going to die?
Chapter 7
Rescuing Blueback
- They watch Costello work up the coast 2. Abel can't stand it and decides to go out to Costello's boat to see the slaughter 4. Abel throws out abalone. His mum goes down into the water 5. Blueback comes out to the food and starts playing 6. Abel goes into the water with him but runs out of air 7. Mum goes between Blueback and the Mum punches Blueback in the face to get him to go away 8. Blueback leaves and Mum comes back to the surface out of breath
Ties To The Ocean
Abel's life will be tied to the ocean in some way. Abel's mum never wants to leave. She wants to grow old and die there.
Chapter 12
Realationships
Abel and Stella become marine biologists and they get married. They travelled places together wth their work.
The Bay
Abel's mum told him that more and more divers come to swim with Blueback but not all of them are good, some of them come with spears. Later on Abel saw that a ship caught fire and the weather broke up the mess and drove it away. The whole coast had come to disaster. He called his mum to let her know that he saw what had happened, she told him that it was a warning.
Chapter 13
The Bay
The weather was getting worse every year, one year a sea lion from antartica was at the bay, other years there was no salmon and Dora found five dead dolphins snagged in the cliffs. After a big storm came there were whale bones all along the shore, the bones were from the Jackson's years ago when they were whaling. Dora Jackson is getting older and weaker so the bay and the house is getting out of hand
Abel's dream
Abel had another bad/sad dream, this time he dreamt that his mother was dead and she was floating in the ocean like seawees, Abel swam out and grabbed her but she sank beneath the surface. Blueback followed her down and they both disssapeared.
Chapter 14
Dora Jackson
Abe, Stella, and Dora all celebrated that the government had made their area a sanctuary but when they were going to bed Dora fell and broke her hip, Stella called the ambulance and they wrapped her up with blankets until the ambulance came, Dora told Abel that she was getting old and they both cried because they both knew that Dora wouldn't be able to stay in the Jackson's family home by herself for much longer..
While Dora Jackson was in hospital Abel and Stella cleaned up the place to make it look nice and neat again.
When Dora got home from the hospital she was happy to see that the house and land had been tidyied up.
Later on Stella and Abel had a chat and they both decided to qit their jobs and stay with Dora.
The baby
At the end of the chapter it said that Stella and Abel had had a baby. They called her Dora, after Abel's mother
Chapter 15
The Death
A few years later Abel could tell that his mother was about to pass away so he carried her out to the ocean and let her float, Blueback came and swam around them.
The next day Abel made a new cross in the orchard to add to their little graveyard.
The Two Doras
After a few year Dora began to get weaker and weaker. Little Dora loved to touch her grandmothers hair.
Dora Jackson splet often but when she was awake she would tell stories
Chapter 16
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Abel and Stella
Abel and Stella became scientists again and many people would come to them to watch, listen and read.
Abel hadn't discovered the secret of the sea but he thought his mum and his dad before that would've known all the secrets and Mad Macka would have had some good ideas about it. Abel knew that he would eventually know too.
Chapter 4
Mad Makca
Mad Macka is an abalone diver who comes to Longboat Bay every year on the way to the coast. He was aware that Abel had found a fish that he was attched to, Mad Macka told Abel that he would not harm it. When he was abalone fishing by himself from his boat, he had a heart attack. He was dead.
Chapter 6
Summer Holidays
Abel gets Mad Macka's boat and takes it out onto the ocean. They see a pod of whales. There is also a new abalone diver working their way along the coast and Abel worries about Blueback.
Chapter 8
Summary
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 our oceans.
Chapter 9
Summary
Abel is back at high-school. Buisnessmen come and try to buy their land but Dora outlasts them. Time Winton shows us how communities can be corrupted by enviromental situations such as poverty developers wanting land.
Chapter 10
Summary
Something is wrong with the ocean because the pilchards are dying. Abel would like to find out what is causing this.
Chapter 11
Summary
Abel dosen't like being in the city but he went to university to study the ocean. He took Stella (his girlfriend) to meet his mum and they also went out to see Blueback.
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