Quiz questions No.4

4. Why do you think Ashmol promises not to use the opal to get money? Do you agree with this decision? 

*Because He promised Kellyanne, and that promise worked. Kellyanne wants him to use that opal to buy a coffin and hold a funeral for P&D, he wants to make her happy.

*That bellybutton belongs to Dingan not anyone else, he does not have right to sell it for money to gain benefits for himself.

* The only important thing for him right now was to make Kellyanne feel better, and he believed that hold a funeral for P&D by using that opal will work.

Yes, He is a really nice boy. He knows how important the kinship is, he kind of weighted Kellyanne and money, and he chose Kellyanne immediately 

About Pobby and Dingan

      Pobby: He is a boy and he has a wonden leg, which makes him walk really slow like a turtle. Besides, he was short and fat so that I think the way he walks will not be graceful and agile. Maybe Pobby is a fatty and sweet boy who has short hair, round face and big ears. And he is probably gentle and cute because the person who has a slow pace would be that kind and moderate. The most important thing is that Pobby likes Lolipops, sitting on the swing and playing with Kellyanne. He might were a cap and holds a bagpack with a stick which helps him to walk hanging on it on his shoulder. I think he might wear a dark shirt and a long grey pants in order to cover his wooden leg because he does not others look down no him. He kind of feels shame about his leg. He gives me a feeling which is that he is old but I do not know why; he is just a teenager. 

       

Dingan: She is a girl, and she was the one who won the third place of a competition which means in Kellyanne's mind, she must be very pretty. Kellyanne always mentions that there is an extremely beautiful big opal on her bellybutton. The color of the opal is green, red and black. So in my opinion, Dingan might have long hair and blue big opal like eyes, and she might be a really girly person who usually wear dress. And because she wears opal in her bellybutten that means she probably likes jewelry, and she might wear a shining necklace. She is tall and thin. Moreover, she sounds like a lovely gentle girl, so in my imaginary, she might wear a hat with pink bowknot. The things she likes to do are reading books, painting pictures, sitting on the swings, singing and so on. Her favorite this is lolipops. The color of Dingan's clothes might be bright and colorful, so that I drew some sunflowers on them which are my favorite flowers.

     Pobby and Dingan “ speak English quietly. And they likes to whistle. But you have to be a certain kind of person to hear them.” 

Vocabulary

For each word, write the sentence that it comes from, the part of speech, and the meaning as it is used in the sentence.

claim n.

It is a kind of sign which 

Mum asked one night when she’d got back from her job on the checkout at Khan’s and me and Dad were relaxing after a hard afternoon’s work out at the claim.

wobbling adj. n. v.

Wobbling means shaking and trembling.

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 adj.

shocked, feels really surprised

My dad turned around, startled.

figment n.

small pieces of segment 

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.

rummaged v.

checked 

He rummaged through piles of rocks.

ute n.

It is a kind of Indian in America

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.

crackpot n.

crazy thoughts 

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

Mello Yello n.

A kind of drink which is similar with the soda

“Pobby and Dingan aren’t dead,” I said, hiding my anger in a swig from my can of Mello Yello.

mates n.

friends, playmates.

“I still say Kellyanne could do with some real-live mates,” went on my dad, as if he was talking to someone inside his beer.

opal n.

A kind of valuable beautiful stone.

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 (I don't know the part of speech of this word)

Seriously.

“Fairdinkum?”

imaginary n.

Fake, and create by people's brain

Now, I was as much a rockhound as the next kid, 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 adj.

very old and looks like 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 animal which had already disappeared  in the Earth.

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

Do you think Pobby and Dingan are real? Why or why not? Use evidence from the book to back up your ideas.

      I think Pobby and Dingan are real. 

      Firstly, the title of the book is Pobby and Dingan, and the whole book might all about these two characters. So let's make a hypothesis that Pobby and Dingan are not really exist in this book. Then the whole book will be aimless because if the author just write about the characters which are not exist which make other people argue with that, it is kind of boring and ridiculous. And the nerdier says," I tried to get my head round how it could be their fault if they didn’t even exist." which means that the Ashmol starts to think about how could the fake people make such huge influence. That portarys there must be something really exist, and he just has not found out yet. His opinions about Pobby and DIngan are no longer stonge.

      Secondly, From Chapter 1 and 2, it seems only Kellyanne herself sees Pobby and Dingan as her really friends. Other people are just want to make Kellyanne happy and act as they believe Pobby and Dingan are exist. They see Kellyanne as a little bit different childish girl who likes imagining. So that when Dad brought Pobby and Dingan outside and did not pay attention with them at all, so as a result he lost them which made Kellyanne extremely mad. Then they had to go out and find Pobby and Dingan. Ashmol and father hoped that " any minute now Kellyanne was going to suddenly imagine she had found her imaginary friends and start beaming all over her face." However, they spent a long time finding Pobby and Dingan, and they still did not find anything. And Kellyanne looks really worried. That means Kellyanne were looking for her friends for real and serious. If Pobby and Dingan are just the friends she imagined, she could find them whenever and wherever she wants, but she does not. According to this detail, I think Pobby and Dingan are probably exist in some way.