TARONGA+by+Victor+Kelleher

Lit Club Members: Jess Graham, Issy Ellis-Reeves and Rommie Bayliss-O'Dowd

Who is the character? What have you learnt about this character so far? Do you like/dislike him/her? //Choose a different character each and add to the other profiles once the original author has completed their ideas.// ||
 * || Develop a character profile.
 * Jess || Ben- Ben is your everyday fourteen year old boy but with a very special secret. Ben is telepathic. To be telepathic is to be able to talk to animals through the mind. In this book Ben is the main character and goes through a heap of different stages of trying to stay alive because there are people that want to kill Ben for whatever reason and he doesn't know. ||
 * Issy || Dog: When Ben was traveling to Sydney he came across an abandoned house. Under a tree there was two corpses and in the shed of the house there was the dog. Dog is a dog that Ben meets at some burn't houses.Dog followed Ben through towns fighting off people that tried to attack Ben. sadly when Ben and Dog were crosssing the sydney harbour bridge a gang tried attacking Ben and like always Dog stayed loyal and attacked the ambush. As Ben ran away but sadly there were two many people and he was killed. Dog is very loyal and is called Dog because Ben didn't give him a name before he... passed away. ||
 * Rom || Greg-Greg is the person in the start of the story that kills the things that ben can call in range of his gun Greg is strickt but hes a nice person say thats a bit like mrs.p just kidding there will be more on Greg soon so look out........=) =p.......................... ||

5th August 2009

Answer & give reasons:

Would Ben have been better off staying with Greg?
 * Jess || Ben was better off leaving Greg. I think that it wouldn't go with the story line because Ben always wanted to find his old house in Sydney and with all the comotion going on it would be very dangerous to travel in groups of over two because its pretty much one man or woman for themselves and Ben is only about fourteen and Greg is in his late teens and early twenties and Greg is the one following Ben. Also if Ben stayed with Greg he probably never would have found the dog that travelled by him for such a long time, not that the dog was any use to him because Ben forgot to name it and because of that poachers killed the dog. There could also be a slight chance that if Ben stayed with Greg that he would never have found Taronga Zoo. ||
 * Issy || No if Ben had stayed with Greg more animals would have died and he would have been very sad at least now he's moving on. ||
 * Rom || (Y) yes because he wodent of hade to go (through) throue all the stuff hes gone (through) throue (.)  ||

What has been the most exciting event in the story so far?
 * Jess || Every event in the story has had some exciting bit in it but if you only want me to name one I guess I'll have to say that the part where um well I don't know, um how about the whole book well actually every thing I've read! ||
 * Issy || I think the whole story has been very exciting there hasen't been a single boring bit! But for me the most exciting bit was when he got pushed through the fence into the zoo with the tigers!!. ||
 * Rom || were bens going to put the tigers in the cage and he hase to get some meat and the only meat is human meat ||

What might happen next?


 * Jess || I'm a bit puzzled because what I think always seems to sort of happen but then there is a better part and I wonder is that the best that Victor Kelleher can do and then I estamate another thing and is completly different to what I estamated. ||
 * Issy || I'm not sure, this book is very unpredictable you think one things going to happen but then the totally opposite happens. I hope Ben leaves the zoo and takes Ellie with him. ||
 * Rom || ben will stay at taronga for a bit and then go some were else with elly and molly and steve but i dont think that he going to go with steve steve is rude to him ||