Chapter 8...
Chapter 8:
Key Vocabulary:
Sluggishly
Agony
Savage
Abruptly
Pitiful
Extension: greedy, cruel, torpedoed, thrilling, villain
Authors purpose:
The authors purpose is why an author has chose to write. What are Tim Winton's intentions in writing this chapter? What is he trying to make the reader consider?
Focus Questions:
1. Why did the fisheries investigate Costello?
2. How did the tiger shark get hooked?
3. Why did Abel feel different when he went back to school?
Summary:
Trouble never came from Costello but he continues to strip the reef but he is not spearing any fish and certainly not Blueback, he is holed up nursing his sore head. One afternoon the Fisheries department boat came in and board Costello’s boat, he is towed away, fined and put out of business. For the rest of that summer Blueback steered clear of Dora. A sick shark swims in and on investigating Abel sees it has a meat hook in it’s mouth and dragging a buoy so he can’t swim to the bottom, he is starving and in agony, when it dies Abel looks at the buoy and it is marked Costello. He tows the shark out and sinks it and the buoy. He goes back to school feeling much older, he has learnt a lot about the bad side of human nature.
Key Vocabulary:
Sluggishly
Agony
Savage
Abruptly
Pitiful
Extension: greedy, cruel, torpedoed, thrilling, villain
Authors purpose:
The authors purpose is why an author has chose to write. What are Tim Winton's intentions in writing this chapter? What is he trying to make the reader consider?
Focus Questions:
1. Why did the fisheries investigate Costello?
2. How did the tiger shark get hooked?
3. Why did Abel feel different when he went back to school?
Summary:
Trouble never came from Costello but he continues to strip the reef but he is not spearing any fish and certainly not Blueback, he is holed up nursing his sore head. One afternoon the Fisheries department boat came in and board Costello’s boat, he is towed away, fined and put out of business. For the rest of that summer Blueback steered clear of Dora. A sick shark swims in and on investigating Abel sees it has a meat hook in it’s mouth and dragging a buoy so he can’t swim to the bottom, he is starving and in agony, when it dies Abel looks at the buoy and it is marked Costello. He tows the shark out and sinks it and the buoy. He goes back to school feeling much older, he has learnt a lot about the bad side of human nature.