Quiz

2. What connection does Asmol make between the land covered with seawater and Pobby and Dingan? Why is that important to the story?

Rex told Ashmol, "all this land where lightning Ridge is now was once covered by seawater and how all kinds of sea creatures had been found fossilized in the rock." He was remembered this while he was thinking about Pobby and Dingan. Long time ago, even humans weren't birth on the earth, there are lots of sea creatures. Now, people found out about those creatures but we couldn't find it out if there were no fossils. I think he wanted to say that if he can find the fossils of  Pobby and Dingan, he can prove that they were real because fossils are best evidence to show people that they were true. I think this is important to the story because no one believes Pobby and Dingan except Kellyanne and Ashmol needed to prove that they are real because he wanted to fix his family relationships. So if he could find fossils, he could prove that they were real.



5. In the very end of the novel, Ashmol talks about what it’s like to “believe in something which is hard to see. Or to keep looking for something that’s totally hard to find.” Discuss the importance of imagination and dreams in this novel. Why are they so important even if they cannot be seen. Consider what dreams Rex, the father, and Annie, the mother, have in the story. Consider, also, the dream that Ashmol has. How do those "unseen" dreams connect to Kellyanne's belief in Pobby and Dingan?

They are so important even if they cannot be seen because they are important for person who believe them.  In this book, people's dream or imagination moves characters. Rex's dream is to find big opal, Annie wants to go to England, Ashmol wants his family's relationship becomes better, and Kellyanne is friend with imaginary characters. 
I focus on Annie's dream. She wants to go to England because England is place that she grew up and she is missing it. So her dream is going to England. She is trying to get close to the dream and that's why she is working. I think this can connect to Kellyanne's imagination. The dream can't see either and she just imagine to go to England. Maybe she can go to England in the futures and maybe she can't. So she just imagines to go there and it is same as Kellyanne. Kellyanne just believes that Pobby and Dingan are real and she is living for them. Dream and imagination are very similar I think because both of them are not able to see. But they are very important to have because if they don't have a dream and imagination, why are they need to live their lives. It's one of a reason people are working hard and living their lives. People are doing something because they have dream that they are imagine and they are trying to get close to the dream. Both dreams and imagination can control people's life.