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A character study fromTrash

29/8/2014

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EXPLAIN HOW A MAIN CHARACTER EVOLVES THROUGHOUT THE NOVEL?

‘ People say to me “I guess you just never know what you’ll find, sifting through rubbish! Today could be your lucky day.” I say to them “ Friend, I think I know what I find.” And I know what everyone finds, because I know what we’ve been finding for all the years I have been working, which is eleven years.It’s the one word: stuppa which means- and I’m sorry if I offend- it’s our word for human muck.’

Raphael Fernandez is one of the main characters in the novel ‘Trash’. In this book Raphael starts as a poor boy sifting through worthless, disgusting rubbish at a trash sight in Behala. He has little meaning to his life as it is a dull routine of desperation and survival. He finds a small bag and inside although he does not know at the time, is an extraordinary adventure, new friends and a new way of living. There may have been some setbacks with a brutal encounter with Raphael and the horrible, gruesome police along the way of this journey. But I believe that this builds him even more into the person he is now. Raphael becomes more brave, witty and outgoing throughout the book, he finds the police snapping at his heels as well as being scary, he finds it exciting. If you are going to be being chased by the police why not with your best mates who have been in the same situation as you and are growing as people at the same time?

‘Rubber is good. Just last week we got a freak delivery of old tyres from somewhere’.

Raphael is very poor boy who lives at a trash sight in Behala with his aunty and many cousins. He sorts all the rubbish for plastic, clean paper or anything that might be worth even a small amount but all he ever really finds is ‘crap’!  Maybe the occasional small piece of plastic if he is lucky, but that is only on a good day. He is not very confident and he keeps his head down most of the time. He occasionally breaks a smile but not often enough. His best friend Gardo and him switch between houses for night.

‘I’m going to kill you, you liar!’ He lunged at me and I was falling backwards, but the policeman lifted me and the suit man had my suit’.

When Raphael has a brutal encounter with the police he gets awfully beaten and threatened to be killed. He comes away from the police station barely being able to see out of his puffy, blue and purple eyes. He was so swollen and so physically and mentally scarred, his presence was like he was crumpling to the ground and his words were struggling to come out of his bloody mouth. This encounter grows him as a character and is the beginning of a new found strength in Raphael. He shows courage and loyalty, two traits that continue to develop throughout ‘Trash’.

‘Running for your life two times in one day’.

Raphaels confidence and bravery has hit it’s peak at the end of the novel. He has made new friends, been on an adventure and has discovered how taking the smallest risk in everyday life can lead to so much more if you keep going, sometimes it and be hard but you just have to keep on going. He values friendship and his life has been on a much more exciting journey.

‘You walk far enough and the world does turn into soft sand’.

Raphael has transformed tremendously throughout the book, from a shy unextraordinary trash boy to a tough, brave extraordinary boy. He now has a long, long story to tell about how one little bag opened up a whole new life for him and his friends which includes running and hiding from the police all around the city of Behala. Being free from all the garbage opened up his eyes, he now had a family maybe not a mother or a father but people who he loves and cared for.

Sarah Neal, Raroa Normal Intermediate


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The Final Skulduggery Pleasant book

27/8/2014

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Very exciting news - Derek Landy will be in Wellington soonish. Friday 3 October (the first week of the school holidays) in fact. 5.30pm at Scots College hall. If you want to meet him - and you really do because he must be one of the most entertaining and cool authors to meet - and get him to sign your copy of the very last Skulduggery book, get your tickets from The Children's Bookshop. $10 adult or child or $33 for copy of The Dying of the Light (normally $28) + ticket – saving of $5. (Book is due in early September)
To post book with tickets –add $4 per parcel – (not per ticket)
To post tickets add $1 – per envelope – (not per ticket).
All profits to Save the Children.

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Storylines Family Day

25/8/2014

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Storylines annual Free Family Day was held again yesterday - a day full of children, crafts, performers, authors and illustrators and books, books and more books. There were a lot of monsters around too, helping Paul Beavis to celebrate his wonderful picture book Mrs Mo's Monster. Thank you Toby Warrington for all your hard work as a volunteer. Well done the Storylines committee for a wonderful occasion.
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Because teachers are awesome - especially ours!

22/8/2014

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Calling all Diary of a Wimpy Kid fans

20/8/2014

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For those of you who love the crazy and funny adventures of Greg Heffley and his family - great news. There is a ninth (yes 9th!) book about to come out. Check out some of the background to the new story as told by it's author Jeff Kinney:
And if that's not enough, have fun watching lots more videos on the Wimpy Kid YouTube Channel.
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A Monster Calls movie

19/8/2014

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It's no secret that I love Patrick Ness's books so when a movie is going to made of what I consider to be one of the best books ever written about dealing with grief and pain, it makes me nervous. I am somewhat reassured that Patrick Ness himself has written the script and it is interesting that big names Liam Neeson and Sigourney Weaver are signed up for it (the monster and the grandmother respectively), but I'm still worried. I hope they get it right . . . . I so hope they get it right.
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The Hunger Games Book Review!

13/8/2014

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The Hunger Games - a very popular book series by the amazing Suzanne Collins.
**WARNING! CONTAINS SPOILERS FOR THE FIRST BOOK!**
As a teenager, Katniss had her name in the reaping 40 times. Her sister Primrose, had it in only once. As you could say, the odds were NOT in Prim's favor, and she got chosen. In a very quick move, Katniss has volunteered in her sister's place. The boy tribute picked, was Peeta Mellark. No one volunteered for Peeta. Katniss didn't know it, but the boy with the bread and the girl on fire were to become star-crossed lovers....
May contain traces of bloodbaths, killing, and horrifically upsetting scenes. By Olivia   


Hunger Games by MMSC10 on deviantART
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 Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children Book Trainer  

6/8/2014

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Miss Peregrines Home for Peculiar Children is a debut novel by the awesome author Ramson Riggs. It's about this boy, following a horrible family tragedy. Goes on a clue hunt and ends up on a abandon orphanage. The graphic novel is currently on the out and about in the library. The "non-graphic" version is currently on the new book shelf!
By an guest author 
-Alison B    
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Another clever canine at Raroa

2/8/2014

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And here's Gus, keeping up the amazing tradition of dogs with great literacy skills at Raroa Intermediate (or is he doing maths?). Go Gus!
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