I have drawn Kellyanne and her face many times. I have tried to draw different kind of faces and emotions to her. I won't try to make her look real, but I don't want her to look like a stick figure. I still need to draw my final draft on a bigger piece of paper, which might take a few tries.

I will draw pobby and Dingan for my creative project. I won't draw them as people, but I will draw them as some kind of force that protects Kellyanne. I'm not yet exactly sure that how I will make Pobby and Dingan noticeable. I'm also not a good drawer, so I will probably have to make many drafts before my actual drawing. I will try to draw my final draft with a black in pen, or a pencil, so it's going to be black and white. I hope that I will learn drawing from this project, and also portraying my ideas into drawing.

The quote: "The secret of an opal's color lies not in its substance but in its absence." means that opal is so valuable because it is a symbol of hope and dreams. People have dreams that could be achieved by finding opal, and that gives them hope to keep on searching for it, even though they might have never found it yet. Hope and dreams are the "fuel" of humans that we need everyday to get out of bed. For the characters in the novel, opal was also a symbol of hope and dreams. But everyone has their own dreams, and for everyone the opal has a different meaning. For Ashmole it showed that believing is the most important thing. The opal showed Ashmole how dreams could be achieved by believing that they will happen. Ashmole wanted Kellyanne to get better and his dad to win the trial. The opal helped Ashmole to believe and hope that they will happpen. The opal is an important thing in the novel, because it was the only thing that gave the characters hope. I think that the different colors in the opal represented different dreams that people had. And the absence means that they only exist when you don't have them. If you got everything you ever wanted, you wouldn't have any dreams, and that would take the living out of your life. Living is having dreams and going after them and trying to achieve them, not the achieving itself.

Book vs. movie

In the book, Ashmole didn't get the opal back like he did in the movie. Also Sid started yelling and threatening Rex in the book, but not in the movie. Also Kellyanne died in the book. The movie didn't tell that part, but the movie neither said that Kellyanne turned out okay.

Pobby and Dingan quiz answers

2. When Ashmole was going to look for Pobby and Dingan at the mines, he wasn't really sure if he believes that Pobby and Dingan are real. On his way there, Ashmole thinks how amazing it is that the place was once on the bottom of the ocean: "If this amazing thing was true it was just possible Pobby and Dingan were true too." Ashmole thinks. This is important moment for the story, because that is when Ashmole starts to believe that Pobby and Dingan were real, and really search for them. He realizes that even if he hasn't seen something himself, it might still be true, just like Pobby and Dingan.

5. This story duscusses the importance of dreaming and believing. It shows how those things gives us hope. Ashmole finds Pobby and Dingan not only because he believed they are real, but because believing in them gave Ashmole hope to keep on looking. He believed that if he finds them, Kellyanne will also get better. Also Ashmole's father Rex had big dreams that he will find opal and then have a much better life. These dreams gave Rex hope to keep on looking and mining for opal. Even that he had never found opal, he had hope to give him energy to look for them.

Claim: Me and Dad were relaxing after a hard afternoon's work out at the claim. 
noun. a piece of a mine, that is owned by someone

wobbling: a four-wheel-drive police jeep came wobbling down the creamy red track.
verb. moving with an unsteady motion

startled: My dad turned around, startled.
verb. to move with a quick sudden motion.


figment: Pobby was a figment of her imaginings.
noun. a product of imagination


rummaged: He rummaged through a pile of rocks.
verb. moving around looking for something


ute: I slammed the door of the ute in Dingan's face.
noun. car type


crackpot: Lightning ridge was full of flaming crackpots as far as I could see.
noun. a strange or crazy person


Mello Yello: hiding my anger in a swing from my can of Mello Yello.
noun. a lemonade brand


mates: Dad had become mates with Pobby and Dingan.
noun. friends


opal: My dad would come back from the opal mines covered in dust.
noun. a type of rock

fairdinkum: There’s definitely something in that earth with the name Williamson on it!” “Fairdinkum?”
Austrailian slang word for truth, really, fair

imaginary: I wasn’t crazy enough to talk to imaginary friends.
Noun. Something that you have made up that exists in your head, not usually physical

grub: She said they were quieter and better behaved than me and deserved the grub.
Adjective. Short and thick

fossilized: a fossilized mammoth tooth with sun-flash in it.
Adjective. Remains of something really old


mammoth: a fossilized mammoth tooth with sun-flash in it.
Noun. An animal that doesn't exist anymore 

Are Pobby and Dingan real? It depends. In the book Pobby and Dingan, Pobby and dingan are Ashmole's little sister's imaginary friends, that might actually be more than imaginary characters in the book. But if they are imaginary or not in the book, does that make them real or not real. "Things that never existed can’t be dead. Right?” This shows how Ashmole didn't think that Pobby and Dingan were real, at least not in the real physical world.
I think that if they are imaginary, they are real. If they are defined as imaginary characters, and not real people, the fact that they exist in ones imagination, makes the characters real. If you think that is God real or not, you might think that it isn't. But what if God is just an imaginary power in our heads, instead of a actual physical person in the sky, does that make God real. I think that it does, because the definition of God is then something that someone believes in, and it is true that someone believes in God, so God is real.