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Minh Anh Duong      

                                    Ms. Gaurino

                                             Englishis                                                                  8.4.2016

     Opal Dream.

Everybody much have the dream themselves. Some people have a very big dream, but some have small.  The novel Pobby and Dingan is it not a exception. Everybody in the Lightning  Ridge village have there own dream too. They dream that some day they can found the beautiful rock Opal so they can change their life, but is was not easy to found an opal .  “The secret of an opal's color lies not in its substance but in its absence”. This quotes show that people in the Lightning Ridge Village is dreaming to much about opal. They just see the beautiful and the colorful outside of the opal. They forget about those small dreams. They forget what is the real goal in their life.

 Rex, Ashmol’s dad had this crazy dream about finding  opal. He decided to move his family from England to the small village in Australia just to make his opal dream come true. When he came to the Lightning Ridge village. He spend most of his time to look for opal. The more he look the more he want to find it, but Rex was never lucky, day by day he just cannot find the opal. He never gave up, but he was pay to much time to look for this opal. He get into opal like drug, he cannot not stop looking for it. Sometime he even forget about his family, forgot in their dream. He forgot about his wife dream, he didn’t believe in Kellyanne dream. He make his wife fell lonely, and dream to go back to England like long time ago. A place where she didn’t have to worry about anything, a place that she can feel happy again. He didn’t believe on Pobby and Digan Kellyanne imaginary friend. He seem to not dream on small thing anymore. Even he loss them, and make Kellyanne sick.

Not just Rex all the people in the Linging Village didn’t believe in Pobby and Dingan. Even Ashmol from the first place and his mom just pretending to make Kellyanne feel better. In my opinions, Kellyanne have changes all the people from the Lightning village. Kellyanne make the opal absences, make them forget about opal for one. Let them believe in Pobby and Digan, make them dream about those small thing, force them to care about each other. The proof is a lot of people are coming to the Pobby and Dingan funeral. Show them what is more important then Opal

In the end of the novel even when Asmol find the opal, but he have to sell it for Pobby and Dingan funeral, but Ashol family still live happy together. They didn’t opal to make them become happier. “The secret of an opal's color lies not in its substance but in its absence”. They still can dream about opal, but is better to make is absence, so they the opal still be colorful and beautiful in their eyes. Rather than looking for it.