Quiz

2. The claim are the ocean before. That is very unbelievable for Ashmol because the land was all of the water before but now, there are lots of rocks and sands. After he remember this, he think everything will be possible. Therefore, Pobby and Dingan also can be true. They are both very strange to the others, but maybe that is very normal for his sister, Kelltanna. Just like the land is ocean before is very strange to them, but it was very normal for the people at that time.

5. Rex's dream is to find the opal and get enough money for his family. That they can have a better life. But the are very hard. Just like Kellyanna's friend. people cannot see them, just Kellyanna can see them. They both make people very hard to believe they are true. Rex's dream is the same. Even his wife cannot believe him also. However, although no one believe he can find the opal, he still work very hard. Kellyanna is as same as him. She believe Pooby and Dingan are the real, so she tried to find them. 

Group 2: Question 4

Because he want to make his sister to feel better, also when his sister feels better, his mom would also be happier. On the other hand, that opal is not his, so he could not decide to sell it. We agree with his choice because if he can help Kellyanna hold a funeral, that means Pobby and Dingan are real friends and so people in the Lightning Ridge will believe that his Dad is not a ratter, which is the main reason he wants to help his daughter to find Pobby and Dingan.

Spring Break

In this spring break, I went to have some classes about my drawing. I live in Changzhou, but my mom thought there's no great teacher about drawing in Changzhou, so she found a professor in Wuxi for me. 

Because the place for me is too far away, I almost should spend 1 hour on the way there. That is a Art university. Professor let me drew with the students in the morning. In the beginning, I am very embarrassing because there only me is a high school students. However, after spending one day with them, I found they are also the students. Most of the topic they are talking about I knew and can talk with them. Over there, I have a good time.

However, although I have leant drawing for more than 10 years, I didn't draw anymore when I come to America. Also, I didn't draw the same kind of art. Therefore, I have so many problems when I was drawing. Professor taught me the way to draw that. First, he drew one and give me to see the steps to draw those. Than, he told me how to make the works looks really. Next, he let me draw one for him to see, and he will give me some advice when I was drawing. Finally, when I have done my work, he let me see what should I add. 

I draw 7 works in my whole spring break. In the beginning, I just drew some objects. Then, I began to draw the face of the people. In the end, I drew some clothes, shoes and jeans. I told professor I want to lean fashion design. He gave me lots of materials about fashion. He told me if I want to lean, I will lean well. I thinks  so.,I will spend some of my rest time on practicing drawing.

Pobby And Dingan

Pobby And Dingan

From the book, I knew Dingan is a very pretty, there is a “lovely opal in her bellybutton”. Pobby “had a limp in his right leg”. They speak English and like to whistle. Also, they don’t sleep and shoot. Kellyanna said they are pacifists. By the movie, we can see, Pobby is fat and short, and Dingan has long hair, and she is tall and thin.

I think in the common days, Pobby and Dingan will go anywhere with Kellyanna because they are the friends. When Kellyanna is having the classes, maybe they will also sit beside her and listen the classes with her. Maybe they will tell Kellyanna don’t forget to take notes; maybe they will tell her the answers when she got the questions in the class; maybe they will go to the front desk and make a joke with the teachers. After the classes, they will have a good time in the school. Maybe the other students will feel Kellyanna is crazy, but she won’t care about that. When they should go back home, Pobby and Dingan will go beside Kellyanna. If there are some cars go very quickly, they will notify her and let her go inside.

In the book, her father said he will take Pobby and Dingan to the exercise. I think they are not happy because Ashemol and father never think they are real. However, Kellyanna wants them go, so they go with father and Ashemol. However, when they come to the claim, they find father and Ashemol don’t want to take care of them, so they just come out of the car and play by themselves. They hope the night will come that they can go back home and find Kellyanna, but when they are playing, they forget the time and they cannot find the ways in the claim. They are fearful and wait the people can find them.

I think Pobby and Dingan will be the good friends because they are quiet, they can listen to Kellyanna they what she wants to tell others, but she cannot say. Also, because Dindan is pretty, Kellyanna can wear the clothes like her. By the other way, because they won’t sleep, they can think for Kellyanna what she forget for the next day.

Vocabulary

Claim: n. An assertion of a right.  

"And so Dad couldn’t do nothing except take Kellyanne out to the claim called Wyoming, where he had his drives."

Wobbling: v. Shaking. 

"The noise of a car drove into our ears and a four-wheel-drive police jeep came wobbling down the creamy red track that leads to our claim."

Startled: v. Be surprised.

"My dad turned around, startled."

Figment: n. some thing is not real and imaged by others 

"I walked over to where Pobby was supposed to be sitting and punched the air and kicked the air in the head to show Kellyanne that Pobby was a figment of her imaginings."

Rummaged: v. the event that's not real

"He rummaged through piles of rocks."

Ute: n. a kind of people from American Indian.

"Kellyanne watched him, making sure he helped them up into the cabin of the ute,"

Crackpot: n. some crazy people 

"Lightning Ridge was full of flaming crackpots as far as I could see."

Mello Yello: n. a kind of drink 

"I said, hiding my anger in a swig from my can of Mello Yello."

Mates: n. good friends 

“I still say Kellyanne could do with some real-live mates,”

Opal: n. a kind of stone which is very pretty

"My dad would come back from the opal mines covered in dust, his beard like the back end of a dog that’s shat all over its tail."

Fairdinkum: adj. kind of honest people 

“Fairdinkum?”

Imaginary: adj. something that is imaged 

"but I wasn’t crazy enough to talk to imaginary friends, I’ll tell you that for nothing."

Grub: n. Food. 

"She said they were quieter and better behaved than me and deserved the grub."

Fossilized: v. Change to be the stone 

"There’s rumours going that Lucky Jes has taken out a million-dollar stone and a fossilized mammoth tooth with sun-flash in it."

Mammoth: n. A kind of elephant which has long furs

"There’s rumours going that Lucky Jes has taken out a million-dollar stone and a fossilized mammoth tooth with sun-flash in it."

In Class Writing

In my opinion, I think they are unreal, because Ashmol cannot see Ponny and Dingan. Also, in the beginning of the story, the book writes: "Kellyanne glared at me through tears the way she did the time I slammed the door of the ute in Dingan’s face or the time I walked over to where Pobby was supposed to be sitting and punched the air and kicked the air in the head to show Kellyanne that Pobby was a figment of her imaginings." (Rice, 1) We can see Ashmol just kicks the air, and there's nothing over there. Then, the mom said, "they were quieter and better behaved than me and deserved the grub." (Rice,1) Mom said they are quitter. We can see they don't talk with others, so I think mane they are imaged by Kellyanna. Next, Ashmol's Dad back, he said,"Did I tread on your fairy-friends?" (Rice, 5) That we can see his Dad don't take care about Kellyanna's friends so much, even he tread on them. If they are real, they will be hurt even killed by his Dad. Later, in the middle of chapter one, when Dad asks mom will is Kellyanna, mom said she is playing with her friends outside. Dad is a little angry and thinks Kellyanna becomes so strange. But mom said she just different. By this part, we can see mom and dad have already known Pobby and Dingan are imaged. There also have lots of reasons why I think they are unreal, but I think these are enough. In conclusion, I think Pobby and Dingan are imaged by Kellyanna, but only Ashmol wants tell her the truth; Kellyanna's parents although know they are not real, but they want to keep the balance between family. 

Improvement

In my first draft, there are too many summary, and I don't have enough analysis. Also, I don't have any quotation in my body paragraph to support my opinion. In addition, my first draft's thinking is very easy. Ian my final draft, I think I change a lot that to make my opinion to be harder to broke. I have lots of grammar mistakes in my first draft. Although there are still some mistakes, but that is not as many as in the first draft. In my final draft, have the correct format.