Blueback

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$17.71
SKU:
B1915
Weight:
0.20 KGS
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Calculated at Checkout
Content Type:
Feature Film
Year Levels:
7-10
Learning Areas:
English
Learning Areas:
The Arts (Media Studies)
Learning Areas:
Literacy
Learning Areas:
Australian Cross-curriculum priority of Sustainability
Key Themes:
Childhood, family, parent-child relationships, community, identity, the environment, climate crisis, balancing development with protecting the environment, sustainability, place, belonging, environmental activism, threats to ecosystems, principles an
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Blueback is an achingly beautiful story about family, belonging, and living a life in tune with the environment, from Tim Winton, one of Australia's best-loved authors.

Abel Jackson's boyhood belongs to a vanishing world. On an idyllic stretch of coast whose waters teem with fish, he lives a simple, tough existence. It's just him and his mother in the house at Longboat Bay, but Abel has friends in the sea, particularly the magnificent old groper he meets when diving.

As the years pass, things change, but one thing seems to remain constant: the greed of humans. When the modern world comes to his patch of sea, Abel wonders what can stand in its way.

Blueback is a deceptively simple allegory about a boy who matures through fortitude and who finds wisdom through living in harmony with all forms of life.

ATOM has produced a study guide for the film adaptation of BluebackThis study guide is available for download here.