Able’s father was a pearl diver but has passed away, leaving just him and his mother living in a changing world. Their home has no electricity and the only fresh water is rainwater isolated from the city, they make their living off the land and by fishing for Abalone. The story opens in Longboat Beach, where Able Jackson and his mother, Dora, live by the ocean. Although the novel is an extended allegory, Winton takes care to keep the story from being a piece of agitprop, infusing it with enough poetry and emotional stakes to make it enjoyable as a story. Subtitled A fable for all ages, its intent is clearly to deliver this message and make younger readers think critically about how the environment is being treated and what they can do to take action. Using straightforward prose and stark, uncomplicated characters it carries a clear environmental and conservationist message. * preventing people from overfishing in the area that they own.Blueback is a Young Adult novel by Tim Winton, published in 1997. * making the coastal area they own a National park, stopping deforestation so that industries or parks could not be made * only taking a few abolone from each area, leaving the rest to bread and grow. * making compost for their garden from left over food scraps This book constantly explores sustainability as Abel and his mother are striving to protect the environment. Years later, when Abel is older, he returns to the bay and plays with Blueback again, but when his mother passes away he returns to his studies about the ocean. While Abel is away his mother fearlessly fights off these men and makes the bay a national park to finally protect Blueback and the bay from danger. A new fisher also comes to the bay and he has no respect for the fish or being sustainable, all this fisher cares about is getting the most fish. But, when Abel leaves his mother to go to a boarding school his mother has an encounter with business men who are trying to get her to sell the bay. Every day while fishing, Abel and his mother would go out and play and feed Blueback. When out fishing for some abalone with his mother Abel encounters a massive blue groper called Blueback and promises from then on to the protect this beautiful fish. His father was killed by a tiger shark when Abel was young. Blueback is a story about a young boy called Abel who lives in a bay called Longboat.
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