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- Sadie and her mum have a tense relationship
- Ellie forced Sadie to move to Boort
- Sadie stumbled across a circle of rocks that had engraving on them as well as crosses (cemetery?)
- Clarry Hazzard is Sadie's great grandfather
- Boort is a very rural area, isolated & very dry /barren place
- Sadie can all of a sudden hear and talk to crows. The crow stated to her... 'you have a job to do, you have to right old wrongs or be condemned to repeat them'...
-(page 7) The beginning and ending always the same, always now. The game, the story, the riddle, hiding and seeking, beginning and ending always. This quote is about the crow telling Sadie a riddle and that she has to do something.
-(page 36) Then someone had the bright idea to flood the valley and turn it into a dam. This quote if foreshadowing about someone flooding the dam, it is also a kind of sarcastic quote.
-(page 2) She'd just assumed that Sadie would love it too. She'd never even bothered to ask how Sadie felt about it. This quote is talking about how Ellie never asked about how Sadie felt about moving.

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- Sadie was second guessing herself
- The Crow told Sadie she needs to finish the story...
- The story is about 'a clever man' whose spirit can not rest.
- Is the spirit of the man in the crow?
- We're something terrible has happened to this man and there is unfinished business...
- Sadie's role is to solve the story...
- Sadie may have been taken back into the past to understand the story better
- Is the clever man the great great grandfather?

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Chapters 8, 9 & 10 (Julius, Anger & Ibrahim)

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Chapters 8, 9 & 10 (Julius, Anger & Ibrahim)

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- Sadie heads back in time and she meets Jimmy Raven (he is the mortlocks stockman)
- Jimmy was worried about 'something sacred being destroyed'
- Jimmy was in the war with Clarry & Gerry
- We infer that Jimmy doesn't have a positive relationship with Gerry; soon as Jimmy Saw Gerry he bolted out the door acting very suspicious
- Sadie took Lachie to the sacred place. In the distance she could hear the crows cawring angrily in the distance.
- Sadie, Walter, Ellie & David entered the pub and everybody went silent and started whispering because we find out Walter & David are indigenous.
- Lachie didn't stand up for Sadie when Jules and all of their friends were being racist pigs towards Sadie & Walter. This changed out perception of Lachie.

Quotes:
-(p.53) "Sadie knew there was no one else in town, in the whole district, who would bring out thte best china to serve a black stockman a cup of tea" This shows how the Hazzards value Jimmy as an equal and they have no racial underlines.

-(p.62) "She revised her decision not to talk to anyone, anyone didn't include Lachie".  This gives us an understanding of Sadie's relationship with Lachie.

-(p.68) "So now it's our special place, okay our secret"-Lachie, "Sadie nodded. She could hear crows cawing angrily somewhere in the distance"  This tells us that Sadie's choice of showing Lachie the sacred place was a grave mistake, and the crows aren't happy.

-(p.72) "But she felt as if the spotlight had been trained onto their little group of two white females and two black males" This shows that the town is not used to interracial relationships.

-(p.76)"Go on with your abo boyfriend" Which shows that Jules isn't fond of the aboriginal/indigenous culture and their people.

-(p.75)"come on kids,' he drawled you heard Jules your turn is over he didn't even look at Sadie he just looked at Walter" This shows that Lachie is racist as he pin point Walter while saying all those mean stuff.

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- Crows are not happy with Sadie telling Lachie about the secret place.
- Ellie, David and Sadie once again ran into Craig & Amanda at the pub... We heard of some past happenings between Craig and Ellie
- Craig wanted David to coach the football side. David is an ex football player.
- 'You lot were great footballers, great skill, but lacked discipline. Brains aren't wired that way' - Craig p.97
- "Isn't it funny how 'black boys' make trouble, but white boys have 'accidents'?" Ellie, p.99

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- Lachie told Craig about the secret place & they were not very respectful of it
- David decided to go to the football club; they won the  game and Craig wanted him to do it full time.
- Craig wanted to exploit the indigenous sacred place.
- Walter got incredibly angry and Craig threatened him.
- Walter's aunt MAY have a connection to Sadie/
-In the dreams, she didn't know what she was hunting for, or fleeing from, or what made her cry out. Only the sense of panic remained, knotted always in her stomach-page 110
-Sadie had been feeling oddly disconnected from her own life...none of it seemed real. She felt as if she were floating through a dream, watching herself from a distance. Only the crows seemed real-page 109
-The words the crow had spoken burned into Sadie's memory. When the Law ids broken there must be punishment! Night after night she woke, struggling to free herself from dreams in which she was searching, or running, or screaming out.-page109
-they'd (the crows) begun to follow Sadie about, hopping along behind as if they were imitating her, mocking her. They were always watching, heads cocked, their bright eyes fixed on her, and their remarks were a running commentary on her could understand them-page110
-Crow has chosen her. Crow has tricked her. Wah! That's Crow's secret!-page 110
-David went to footy training last night," she said...It's good for everyone. It shows we can put the past behind us, move on, forget all that-"Ellie waved a hand. "All that unpleasantness."-page111
-the anxious knot stayed tied in her stomach. Sadie wasn't sure that the past could be so easily forgotten."-page112
-David to Walter-You spend too much time with Auntie Lly."-page113
-Craig's the president; what he says goes, and if he wants you, you've go the job."-page 114
-I want us to fit in. As a couple. I want us to be part of the community." "Well, I'm not sure if I do" (David) -page115
-"You're the one who spends hours talking to Auntie Lily when you should be doing your homework." "It's important," said Walter. "Of course it is!" said Ellie. "Walter needs to knnow about his culture." "Yeah," said David. "But there's no point knowing about your culture if you can't get a job."-page 115
-"For our people, the land was created long ago, in the time of the Dreaming, when the ancestral spirits moved across the country, They made the hills and the rivers, the swamps and the waterholes. That's why our spirit ancestors are so important . They make the land, and the land belongs to them, and they make us, too."... "Round this country, everything belongs to Bunjil the Eaglehawk, or Waa the Crow."-page116
-"Some of the stuff Aunt Lily tells me, it's secret"-page116
- (David)"I heard one of the creeks round here used to be called Crow Creek. But they call it Cross Creek now."... (Walter) "Some whitefellas think crows are unlucky." "Ridiculous!" snorted Ellie-page 116-117
-"There's a church next to Cross Creek, isn't there? Maybe they changed the name when they built it," said Ellie. "When they laid down their religion on top of yours, they changed the crow to a cross."-page 117
-(Walter) "Our people lived in this country for forty thousand years, maybe more. No other cultue in the history of the world's lasted that long. The Egyptians, the Greeks, the Romans-they all destroed themselves. Not us. Because we knew how to live with the land, not fight it. So we survived." Ellie said, "Till the whitefellas came." Walter looked at her. "We're still surviving."-page118
-"Don't know about Bunjil and Waa, though," said David. "Don't reckon they made it." "Oh, no!" cied Sadie. "They did! I know they did!"-page 118
We predict:
= Walter's aunt may be the lost spirit
= Is Jimmy the spirit that can't rest?

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- (p.132) Jimmy gave Clarry 'something' before he died - he asked Clarry to hide it...
- Sadie was forced back in time and saw a horrible crime
- Sadie witnessed Gerry Mortlock killing Jimmy Raven
- Sadie was shocked to see her father 'Clarry' cover up the crime and stick up for Gerry even when he knew it was the wrong thing to do
- We learnt that Clarry was in debt to the Mortlocks and if anything happened to him, the family would be bust
- (p.135) Sadie in the past states "you think if Mr mortlock came and told mum you'd had to go away, she'd believe it?"

The quote above is important because Aunt Lily was told that Jimmy had ran away even tho he was assassinated by gerald mortlock, and Clarry was an accessory to the matter.

- (p.135) "They're not like us Sadie."

- (p.135) "Jimmy had bled to death like any man. why would the colour of his skin make him any different inside?"

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- We see Walter and Sadie develop a special bond as Walter wants to help Sadie get to the bottom of this
- Walter can also see and hear the Crows; Walter dreamt of Sadie prior to ever meeting her. We are yet to see their connection.
- We find out that Clarry, Gerry and baby Sarah all died just 6 months after the death of Jimmy Raven in the past. We wonder if this was punishment.
- We see Lachie, Sadie, Walter and Craig get into a huge fight at the special place where Lachie attacks Walter
- (p.158) Sadie said "This land belonged to his people, way before your family got here! "
-(p.158) Lachie said, "They don't belong here, us Mortlocks have been living here longer than his family have." Lachie was inferring that the land never belonged to the first nation people.
-(p.160)"Oh, Crows! Sadie sent out a desperate silent cry. Help us "When Sadie calls out to the crows, they come to her.
- On page (147) there is a quote that says, “Now she’d see Clarry and Jean, now she’d inhabited the other Sadie’s skin, she felt tied to Boort by long ropes of history, treading back through Mun and Grandpa Phil”. You can tell that she is invested in this place and at the same time confused.

- On page 147 there is a quote that says, “Now she’d see Clarry and Jean, now she’d inhabited the other Sadie’s skin, she felt tied to Boort by long ropes of history, treading back through Mun and Grandpa Phil”. You can tell that she is invested in this place.

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- We learnt that Walter's family are relatives to Jimmy Raven.
- (p.165) "What's lost must be found and what was stolen must be returned."
- Aunt lilly didn't trust Sadie at first because she has trauma with white men.
- Aunt Lilly inferred that Sadie may be indigenous because Crows only talk to indigenous people
- (p.179) "you got some black fella blood in you"
- (p.180) Aunt Lilly said 'if you find the sacred thing you must not open it'

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- Sadie and Walter broke into the Mortlocks home
- Found a pile of bones in a glass case
- Lachie showed up and chased them.
- An altercation happened at the Sacred place - Lachie hit his head when he fell off the bike. Blood everywhere.
- "The story tells itself again" p.199
- "It was an accident, i swear to god!" The voice of Gerald Mortlock echoed in her head

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- Sadie went back in time and finally found the sacred item that Jimmy gave to Clarry.
- Sadie buried the secret object next to a young sapling and engraved an S into it so she could find it in the future
- Walter wanted to leave Lachie, Sadie had mixed emotions.
- Walter eventually took off on the bike to go and get David
- Sadie began her journey to find the scared thing

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Ellie & David were fighting over the incident at the Pub.

Ellie use to date Craig Mortlock but left Craig for David - this caused David to be beaten up by Craig and his friends

Sadie went back onto the past and witnesses Jimmy, Clarry and Gerry fighting over Gerry wanting to flood the valley

Jimmy said that it's against the law to flood the 'sacred place' and it's similar to burning a church

We can infer that... Jimmy is the spirit that 'cannot be put to rest' and that Gerry might harm Jimmy Raven over the dam...

"The gentle tick-tick of the clock in Clarry and Jean's Kitchen, and rising above them all, the long, mournful Lament of the crows." (p.84) Saddie was getting used to the crows and living in the past but still knew that she had betrayed Betrayed them by telling Lachie.

"The people who belong to that place, they're not here to protect it, so i got to do it." (p.92) Jimmy knew that that he had found something sacred and knew that if Gerald flooded the valley those things would be destroyed.