Ch. 2 pages 8-13

Ch. 2 pages 8-13

1. What is Boort Like? (so far)

   • Paddocks
     • Pale, parched, empty
   • Noise
     • Frogs and birds
   • Silent train tracks, shabby houses, adds for golf clubs and sheep lice medicine, rusty and abandoned rubbish

2. Friendships and Relationships

   • Sadie has no new friends yet at school
     • Kids from school think she is a 'city snob'
   • Ellie is trying to make new friends at her work
     • No time left over for Sadie or house maintenance
   • Dad (surname 'Brown') left them

3. Sadie and Ellie's Relationship

   • Sadie hates Ellie for taking her away from her friends and her Melbourne life
     • Sadie wants to 'punish' Ellie by being miserable
   • Sadie thinks Ellie talks but never listens
     • Ellie doesn't care about Sadie's feelings
   • Ellie just assumes Sadie will love Boort like she did

4. Sadie's Feelings About Boort

   • Sadie thinks Boort is an old dump which is stupid and annoying, and slightly creepy and mysterious
     • She feels like she should think Boort is terrible because she misses her Melbourne friends, school, house and her old life, but Boort is somewhat fascinating

5. War Memorial

   • Lots of names for a small town like Boort
     • Lots of Mortlock and Hazzard names tell Sadie that her family (the Hazzards) is a part of Boort's history and past, and so are the Mortlocks

6. The Crow

   • Seems to always be watching Sadie, wherever she is and wherever she goes