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Different ways of looking at things are deliberately foregrounded, especially the graffiti that "made the city look better."

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Different ways of looking at things are deliberately foregrounded, especially the graffiti that "made the city look better."

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The intimate, child's perpective captures the excitement of a event taken largely for granted in our times. It speaks volume about their time. 

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The intimate, child's perpective captures the excitement of a event taken largely for granted in our times. It speaks volume about their time. 

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Superlative - "the best movie" : Isla describes the movie she and her brother saw as the highest degree possible.
'this is Bo' : relief of tension from the paragraph before describing the giant.

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Language in this chapter is written in a very childish manner this depicts the child-like activities they are doing in this chapter.
The language also appeals to many of the senses this helps us visualise and imagine us in the situation. "He was already sniffing and my eyes had started to itch with all the bits of grass in the air."

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"He rolled around,over and over, and when he stopped rolling he lay on his belly in the middle of the lawn." - This quotes helps us visualise what Bo is doing while playing in the freshly cut grass.

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Bo - This chapter builds upon Bo's father like figure to Isla and her brother. We learn that he still has a childish side when he goes rolling around and around in the freshly cut grass and doesn't care how dirty he is. This shows us how and why Isla can connect to hi so easily.

Mum - in lines 8-10 the sense of the mum's sense of distance from the kids is emphasised, stating the she "would stay in bed and she wouldn't get up". This shows us that the mum is more worried about herself than to look after the kids in the morning.

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Isla's brother - We get a sense of what he is wearing be the description of "blue sneakers". We learn that he is significantly smaller than Isla through the comment 'keeping up' as if it was a surprise to her. He normally has a smile on his face. He is inspired after the movie to become a graffiti artist after this as the main characters hobby. Is a son like figure to Isla who is always looking after him. He is optimistic in being a graffiti artist even though he can't draw very well.

Isla - Isla wears white shoes, and leads the way for her brother, much like what a mum would normally do for her kids. We learn that she is very protective of her brother and plays a mother like role in looking after her brother.

Bo- Looks like a giant to Isla. Eyes the colour of a grey-blue the colour of the sea.

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In the first line of this chapter the setting gets described as the outskirts of the city. Later in the chapter the setting changes to Isla's house. Within the house it is set at the kitchen table with the family and a giant sat there.

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The setting of a lawn in the backyard gives us the idea that this house is your typical family home, apart of the 'Aussie dream'.

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In this chapter we have Isla describing the differences in the tides and what it is like boarding her boat to school on each type of tide.

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The setting of this chapter is on the boat jetty where Isla and her brother would get picked up for school. This setting shows us that they live in a coastal area.

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Isla - In this chapter it gets emphasised that Isla is still a very young girl due to the language used i.e. "I really liked that game". This use of simple language tells us that she hasn't been at school too long.
She likes it whens its mid-tide as it is easier to get to school and because days when it is mid tide tend to be a good day. We learn that she likes this tide as we are told that she is always hoping for it.
She also likes the feeling of being free when we are told "I liked the feeling of balancing high up on the water, of moving with it, like you were apart of the ferry". This shows us that she likes the freedom of being on the boat and that the boat has.

Isla's Brother - We don't hear much about Isla;s brother other than that he doesn't like having to jump onto the boat and that he is old enough to go to school.

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Personification - "tried to wet our feet, tried to grab our legs" : This quote is describing the waves and the way they act during high tide while Isla and her brother wait there for their ferry.
Simile - "like you were part of the ferry" "like my body was part of its body" : These quotes help describe the faith and connection that Isla has in the ferry during the dangerous and rough high tide.

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In this chapter we have Isla and her brother go to the movie 'Beat street'. We also have Isla's first encounter with Bo.

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We have a vivid description of Isla's next door neighbour mowing her lawn. We get to see Bo's childish side shine when his senses overcome him after the lawn is mowed.

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1.     Compare and contrast what is narrated in this short chapter, to what we have just read in the last two chapters.
The past two chapters have been narrated by Bo compared to this short chapter being narrated by Isla. This change in narration leads to a complete different style of writing. Bo’s writing is quite sophisticated, whereas Isla’s writing is often very simple to show us her age. Although Isla’s writing is written as being more simple compared to Bo’s the author has still include language techniques such as personification, similes, and anaphora’s into her writing. In both chapters Bo and Isla are talking about the changes in the ocean and its patterns, and its effects it can have on the stability of the boats they have to ride everyday for work.

There is some connection through the challenges presented by ships and the sea.

2.     What is the effect of the last sentence?
The last sentence reinforces the idea that humans will never be able to control or guess what the weather will be like, and that the weather is controlled by someone/thing that is much more powerful then us. The idea of the mid-tide or as described in the chapter as good relaxing days, coming when you least expect them gives off the effect that we can never predict what’s to come giving off the idea that Isla, has learnt this from past experiences.

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1.     How many examples of visual imagery can you find on pp. 27 – 28? What is the effect on us as readers?

·       ‘Blue sneakers’, ‘keeping up with my white ones’, ‘probably smiling’, ‘got electrocuted on the train tracks’, ‘was a graffiti artist and he painted some great work on the grey walls’, ‘bare concrete’, ‘jars and jars filled with bright pink and green apple drops, red-stripped sticks of candy, soft yellow squares coated with powdered sugar’, ‘almost pink and almost violet but not quite either’, ‘there was a giant in our house’, ‘chair pushed out so that his long legs could fit’, ‘small yellow teacup’, ‘eyes were a grey-blue like the sea’

Because of all the visual imagery used in this chapter it gives us a very good idea of what the author was trying to depict, and also about the setting in which the characters are living in and why they might response to something in a particular way.

2.     The chapter title and the first sentence on p. 29 refer to Bo as a giant. Why? What is the effect of this?

This first sentence gives us the visual that Bo is very big and rugged, although I do not believe this is the case because in the Prologue Bo is described not being tall rather being the smallest of all the men depicted. This description in the current chapter hence confuses us on what to believe. It might also be telling us that compared to Isla Bo is a giant, showing us how small Isla is, but if this is the case it hasn’t been made aware to us that his is the case.
To the children, Bo is impressive.

3. It is Bo who at last tells us the name of our narrator, Isla. And it is Isla who notices that “his eyes were grey-blue like the sea”. What is happening here?
This line shows us that Isla has a connection with the sea. It also shows us that she is creating a connection with Bo. This line also creates a connection between the two narrators, which makes the rest of the book easier to follow.

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In the back garden, at their favourite part of the house, the walnut tree. We learn that their are steps from the backdoor to the ground level from the description of how Isla and her brother used to break walnuts.

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How does the characterisation of Bo continue in a similar vein to the previous chapter?
In this chapter Bo continues to build on his Dad like figure, while the Mum of Isla and her brother stays in her room leaving the kids to do their own thing. We learn that Bo hasn’t had a lawn since he was kid adding to his character as we learn that this means he’s been at sea for years on end. The memories from when he was a kid are enough for him to start acting like a child rolling all over the freshly cut grass not having a care in the world of getting dirty and ruining his shirt.
Bo again refers to his childhood in his memory of the cut grass. Perhaps he loves it so much because he misses it when he is at sea.

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Bo - We get insight into Bo's caring father like nature. We learn that he wants to build his relationship with Isla when he starts teaching her to better open walnuts by sharing his experiences and memories from when he was a child at school taking walnuts off the tree hanging over the fence at school.
We learn that he is also a smoker in the first line.

Isla - We learn that Isla's favourite part of the house is their want tree at the back of the garden. We hear her memories with her brother from when they used to smash open walnuts withs rocks, and about the taste of the broken shell mixed with the walnuts. We read that she is happy for Bo to teach her things and to share his experiences as well.

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In this chapter Isla and Bo are out in their garden bonding over the walnut tree. We also have Bo sharing his memories as a child with his experiences with walnuts.

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1.     How does Bo draw on the past to inform what is happening in the present?
Bo uses memories from his childhood when he would eat walnuts to help Isla open them abut also to create a connection with her. He uses the memories he gets from seeing the walnut tree to help teach Isla.
Bo refers to the pocket knife given to him "a long time ago" and provides us with an anecdote about stealing walnuts when he was at school.

How do we learn, on p. 32, that Bo is much more than just a giant or a Viking?
On page 32 we learn that Bo becomes a father like figure to Isla. We learn that he is much more than a giant or Viking, when he constantly comforting Isla even when she does the walnut opening wrong, or when she opens one and there isn’t anything in it, he has a kid friendly reason why there mightn’t be a walnut in that shell. This reinforces the father like figure of Bo. We also get informed that Bo is smiling while doing this which shows us that he likes doing what he’s doing.
The reference to "the fairies" and his wink allows us to see him as a gentle giant.

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Metaphor - "A little brain" : used to describe the shape of the walnut.
Simile - "like a skull" used to describe what the two halves of the walnut shell look like.
Metaphor - "the fairies ate that one" : This is what Bo used to describe why Isla's walnut sell was empty.

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"'My father gave me this knife' he said 'a long time ago'"