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Blueback (Chapter 1 (Groper (It is a big Blue fish. He is described as old…
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
Able is a 10 year old boy who lives with his Mum. They go snokelling /diving for Abalone in the sea near where they live
Chapter 3
School
Abel wasn't really interested school and got in trouble fro day dreaming 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 remember his dad. 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 vegetables, fruit and collecting their own meats. Abel Jackson just lives with his mum. His dad is pressumed dead with no body with no body buried in the cemetery.
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 smewhere
Chapter 5
Abel's dream
Blueback took Abel to a deep crevice where he saw the bodies of little girls, Mad Macka and his father and some sailors. Just before Abel woke up, Blueback finned upwards to stop him from touching his father. Abel then woke up crying.
Going to school
Abel didn't want to go to school because he thought he belonged in Longboat Bay. Abel did not like being surrounded by lots of people while at school. Abel described the town as a long way inland, flat and been bulldozed to make way for croplands.
Chapter 7
Ties to the ocean
Abel's life will be tied to the ocean in some way. Abel's mum never wants to leave. She want to die there
Rescuing Blueback
- They watch Costello work up the coast. 2. Abel can't stand it and decides to go out to Costello's boat. Mum goes to. 3. They climb onto Costello's boat to see the slaughter. 4. Abel throws out the 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 divers and punched him in the face. 8. Blueback leaves and Mum comes back to the surface out of air.
Chapter 6
summer holidays
There is a new abalone diver cming to coming to the bay and Abel is wooied he will hurt Blueback. Abel was given Mad Macksas boat to use to dive for abalone. a whale came up beside them and gave them a fright
Chapter 4
Mad Macka
He was an abalone diver who came to the bay every year on his way to the coast. He knew all about Blueback and said that he was safe wit him. he took his boat out in the bay and the compressor had stopped. His boat ran out of fuel while he was diving. He seemed to have had a heart attack while he was diving and ended up dead.
Chapter 8
Tiger Shark
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.
Chapter9
Abel is back at high-school. Businessmen come and try to buy their land but Dora outlasts them. Tim Winton shows us how communities can be corrupted by environmental situations such as property developers wanting land.
Chapter 10
There is something wrong with the ocean as pilchards are dying. Abel wants to try and figure out what is wrong.
Chapter 11
Abel went away to university to study the ocean. He didn't like being in the city. He took his girlfriend, Stella, home to meet his Mum and they went out to see Blueback.
Chapter 12
Abel spent his time diving and working away from Longboat Bay. Tim Winton showed us what kind of events hurt the ocean such as tourism, man-made disasters and pollution.
Chapter 13
A devastating storm uncovered the whaling and sealing past of the Jackson's. Dora writes letters that gets Longboat Bay protected as a sanctuary. Abel feels guilt that with all of his learning, it was not him that got this to happen. Dora was able to make it happen just by being herself.
Chapter 14
Dora fell down the steps and broke her hips. It took many weeks to repair. Whilst she was gone. Abel fixed the house and sheds. She returned home and the politicians came to do the ceremony. As time moved on, a baby was born to Stella and Abel. They named her Dora.
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Chapter 16
The final chapter leaves Abel with questions still unanswered. He thinks that it is only in death that he will find out all the answers to his question. They introduce Little Dora to Blueback on her third birthday.
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