Relationship To Blacky Analysis

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Is relationship important to Blacky?
Bosco Chan

This novel is written by Phillip Gwynne. The main setting of this novel is set in a town which is called the Port. There are lots of characters in this including Blacky, Dumby, Clarence and so on. The main character in this novel is Blacky which the novel is surrounding him, his family and friends. From the beginning of the novel, he is not the best in the team, but after he worked very hard, he trained with his teammates because he wants to get better and better. At the end of the novel, he got the best on ground award because he saved the whole team and won the championship.

Through Blacky’s friendship with Dumby, he gains a life lesson about human dignity, courage family, friendship and he notices how his …show more content…

Gary is a timid person this can be seen by when he proves that he is too shy to talk to Cathy it is because he is scared that he might say something wrong to Cathy and then made Cathy thinks he is a weird person and doesn’t like him. Cathy is a city girl who is new to the town of port. However, Blacky knew if he is not going to talk to Cathy, he won’t have any chances to make friends with Cathy so he develops the courage to talk to her and they become friends very quickly which is Blacky wants but he is constantly of thinking some new ways to go further with Cathy if he could do that. We could also see Blacky was trying to be a person that he really wasn’t, so that he could try to impress Cathy. Blacky is also a shy person it is because he is scared of everything which is new to him for example, when he was doing training with his teammates, he is scared of talking to the ‘thumper’ it is because he was thinking he might get hurt and as well he believes that he would be the reason why the team lose the grand final. But of course they didn’t lose the grand final, they

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