Koobor the Koala: the drought maker

Koobor the Koala: the drought maker

Always thirsty because his relatives never gave him enough water …

One morning ... left to go to gather food.

 ...he collected all the water buckets hid them in a tree …

He then started singing, which made the tree growth.

When Koobor's people came back.

Two people … and harshly beat Koobor and threw him to the ground shattering his little body.

… and took refuge in the top branches of a tree.

According to the Koboor law, … he must be cooked with his skin.

… except the koalas.

Between two Worlds

Q1.   The narrator is Milly Symon, she is a girl from 12 to 16 years old

Q2.  True: “Do you want to spoil everything for us”

        True: “Her head was full of Neil’s stories.”

Q3.  The narrator and the storyteller come from the same place.

Q4.  She is very upset because she does not want to talk about the subject of the conversation.

Q5.  She has this reaction because she wants to forget about the subject her daughter is talking about, it is a sensitive subject for her so she got angry.

Q6.  What haunts her is not knowing who she is. Her mother giving her no answers about her past.

Q7.  The narrator decides to forget her past to stop thinking about it and go into Nail's stories.

Q8.  The land can refer to memories that move, disappear and mix in the course of time without stopping.

Q9.  The narrator finally decides to go and talk to Neil Symon to see if he is indeed her father or at least a member of her family so that he can talk to her about her past or her land of origin.

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