Blog 7

Pobby and Dingan is a book I'm reading on English class now. This time, it doesn't include anything about war and national things. It's just a book about children, it's like a fairy tale. This book was written by Ben Rice. The story was happened in Australia, so there are a lot of Australia-English words in the book. So far, I had read 12 chapters. It talks about a little girl Kellyane has two imaginary friend Pobby and Dingan, they are her only friends. Kellyanne's brother Ashmol doesn't believe that they are real, he thinks they don't exist. When Pobby and Dingan lost, Kellyanne got real illness. Ashmol convinced other people in the town to find those two imaginary friends. Finally Ashmol found the Dingan's belly button--an opal and Pobby and Dingan has dead, Kellyanne wanted to use offer that opal to funeral director than bury the Pobby and Dingan and make them a grave.

First of all, I like most of parts of this book. There are not many complicated plots in the book, but for every plots, the writer describe it well, such like the description of the character's thought, conversation and action. An impressive chapter is 9. He was finding Pobby and Dingan, "I tiptoed over to our old caravan and took out a yellow mining helmet from underneath it. I put on the hat and tightened the strap up under my chin./after very five steps I took a breath to make sure I was still alive/I felt like I was in some throat, being swallowed by some monster."(Pobby and Dingan 54). Writter use whole chapter to describe the process of Ashmol finding Pobby and Dingan. There are a lot of details, vivid description. Those words make me easily imagine that scene, likes a movie playing in my mind as I was reading every paragraph. "My heart sank when I heard this./I had reckoned on buying a new house and getting my mum an air ticket for a holiday in England./the most important thing was getting kellyanne well again."(Pobby and Dingan 61) This is a long description of changing of Ashmol's thought, from the begging he felt disappointed to that he realized he more love his sister than any other things. It completely show how an about 12-year old boy feel when he find a beautiful opal and can be rich but he can't keep it, he will definitely feel disappointed, like "heart sank". But finally he realized if this can make kellyanne better, that's what he will do. Ashmol's thought make this character can attract readers a lot, what he thinks about like a what real person would think in reality; it can show the characteristic of Ashmol, he loves his family, his sister.

But one thing I don't like is that there are too many Australian slang in the book. It's a bit hard to understand what it means. The word on the first page "fruit loop", a kind of cereal. But there's a different meaning in the book, it means a crazy person. These words make the book harder to read.