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Titels van Tim Winton

• Blueback / Blauwrug (1)

  1995

• That Eye, the Sky (2)

  1986

Chapter 1
Ort’s (shorten from Morton) father goes a couple of hours to town for Mr. Cherry. His mother tells him that if people leave you have to show them that you love them, you never know if you’re going to see them. After a very long time Ort’s father still isn’t home yet. Than a car drives onto their property with a person called Mr. Wingham who tells them that Ort’s dad was involved in a car crash. After telling this he takes them to the place where the accident happened. The car is completely total-loss and the ambulance has already left with Ort’s dad. Ort is told that his dad is extremely molested. The dashboard of the car wreck is covered with blood. Ort’s mom is taken tot the hospital to check on Ort’s father, Ort isn’t allowed to come along and is brought home by Mr. Mann.

Chapter 2
Ort is in school with his best friend, Fat. Everybody in school is in the same class. Young, and older children, of all age groups. When Ort asks Fat if he heard something about his dad, Ort tells, after trying to evade the question that he isn’t allowed to speak about Ort’s dad. Also the father of Fat, who brought Ort and Fat to school, was behaving very strange, he too didn’t speak a word about Ort’s dad. When Ort’s mom came home after school, she tells Ort that his father is in a come, his mother tells him that Ort was in a coma too when his was a little child. He was suffering from Meningitis and that he was born at home, without the aid of a doctor. At night Ort hears his sister Tegwyn moaning and thinks about how she hurts herself sometimes.

Chapter 3
It’s summer holiday. Ort and Fat go sailing on a raft build of a car roof, which they made the summer before. Fat tells Ort that his parents where arguing and that his Fat’s mom hit his dad with a newspaper. Even after trying for a long time, Fat doesn’t want to tell Ort why his parents where in conflict. They sail for a few kilometres on the current towards an old mill. When they pass a bridge, Fat remarks that someone is sitting under the bridge. They decide to spy on the person sitting under the bridge. It seems to be an old vagabond, living under the bridge. When Fat heads home, they encounter a man at the Gas Station of Fat’s parents. The man is angry because he isn’t being served. Ort and Fat fool him. Once inside Ort hears Fat’s parents arguing. Ort’s dad used to work in the garage next to the Gas Station.

Chapter 4
Ort is going to visit his father in the hospital for the first time. He thinks it’s very early since it’s only 10 o’clock in the morning. On their way to the hospital Ort’s mom tells him that his father looks a lot different than the last time they saw him. She describes how Ort’s father is lying in the hospital, so that he will be prepared on the horrible sight of his father. She describes that his father has a drip, to provide the nutrition, he also is connected to an respiration machine. She also tells Ort about his physical condition and that he has countless wounds en because no use of it, ugly ulcers in his mouth. After they enter the room where Ort’s did is, he sees that his dad indeed looks very miserable. When they return home Ort’s mom comes to visit Ort when he’s in bed. His mother asks him if Ort remembers anything from whem he was in a come, and if he was actually alive then. Ort tells his man that he was, and that he could also hear voices from far away.

Chapter 5
Ort joins his sister in going to the small village of Bankside to do some shopping and having some fun. They go to the local store to look around and relax in the cool breeze from the air-conditioning. Tegwyn allows Ort to buy some soft drink for himself and his sister. After a while two guys enter the store who start to annoy Tegwyn. But because Ort has to let a huge fart caused by his soft drink a huge pile of canned tomatoes collapses and Tegwyn can escape, one can hits a slot machine, which after getting hit keeps giving free games. After leaving the store Ort and Tegwyn decide to go swimming to cool down. Later on Ort and Fat go walk around town and into the forest. Fat starts throwing burning matches to Ort and they start to argue about Ort’s family. Fat insults all Ort’s family members and accuses Ort and his family of feeling better and more important than anyone else. If Fat accidently sets a bush on fire their ways split. Later tgat evening Mr. and Mrs. Cherry come visit at Ort’s house to talk. Fat’s dad smells of beer. Fat’s parents accuse Ort of starting the fight between him and Fat and they demand that Ort is being punished. Ort walks away from his home. When he returns his mother tells him that his dad has awoken from his coma. That’s the end of part 1.

Chapter 6
Orts is waiting outside for his father to be brought home, he’s very excited, when his dad arrives at home he doesn’t respond to anything and he’s got a tube in his throat to breath trough, which wasn’t what Ort expected. He thought his dad would come home himself and would be able to walk again. During diner Tegwyn tells that she doesn’t want to go to school anymore and wants to find a job. Her mom tells here that if she stays in school 2 more years, she’ll get a better job. She doesn’t agree with that and shouts out that she hates it at home. Ort’s mom starts crying. At night Ort checks out everyone in the house, he’s thinking about his dad, and gets so emotional that he starts shouting his thoughts, which wakes up everyone. Ort goes outside to look at the sky, although there’s no moon, it’s very bright outside; the light seem to be casted by a shiny, fat cloud directly above the house. The next morning Tegwyn starts fighting with Ort’s mom again. Later that day a man arrives, Henry Warburton, he volunteers to help taking care of Ort’s dad. Ort recognizes him as the man under the bridge. He doesn’t explain who he really is and why he came to help. He’s got a big black book with him and at the end of almost any sentence the man makes a strange noise: “Nngth”.

Chapter 7
Henry is working in the vegetable garden, at lunch Henry tries to comfort Ort, because Henry knows that Ort doesn’t trust him. Henry is working in the garden the whole afternoon. Later that day Ort and Henry play French cricket. Ort asks Henry what’s in his book; Henry tells him it contains dreams, stories, poems, advice and jokes. Henry falls over the fence and his eye pops out, luckily it’s a glass eye. He tells Ort he lost his eye at school when a ball hit him in the eye. Inside the house they start talking about Christmas and what everyone is going to do then, Tegwyn is very annoyed and makes negative remarks and starts teasing Ort. Ort asks Henry what the strange word is he always says, Henry tells Ort that he’s got a speech impediment. At night, Ort climbs out of his window and listens to the conversation between his mother and Henry. His mother tells Henry about when she moved in this house with Ort’s dad, they moved to this place because Ort’s dad liked the trees. Henry tells about his youth, and about the problems his parents had with each other.

Chapter 8
Ort had a nightmare, he was all alone with his dad at home. He dreams that the house is about to collapse and his dad gets “healed” by a strange white light. That day Ort suddenly remembers that he saw Henry before; He was the man living under the bridge. At breakfast Henry asks mom if Mr. Cherry might have work for him, mom tells him Mr. Cherry probably won’t, Ort suggests to go to Mr. Cherry and just ask. Later that day Henry takes Ort to Mr. Cherry to ask if he can get work there, but Mr. Cherry responds very hostile. Ort suddenly asks if he can take his father’s tools with him, but Mr. Cherry tells Ort that everything in the workshop is his. That evening Henry tells more about his past, he was a writer and was together with a woman. He tells Ort’s mom that it wasn’t a nice woman, she had the voice of a man and smelled like a dog. He tells that he only stayed with her because she was the complete opposite of his own parents. Ort goes back to Mr. Cherry’s garage and steals tools of which he thinks are his father’s.

Chapter 9
Ort finds his favourite chicken with his neck wrung on the clothesline. He is sure Mr. Cherry did it. Henry is in a bad mood, Henry returns to the bridge and Ort follows him, without Henry knowing that Ort is following him. When Henry arrives at the bridge he goes swimming. Ort is spying at him from the bushes. After Henry is finishes swimming he returns to the bridge. Under the bridge Henry starts to mumble and it looks like he’s speaking to God, suddenly he gets a seizure. Ort rushes off to get his mom and together they bring him back to the house. When he wakes up, Henry doesn’t remember who he is, and who Ort and his family are, and then he falls asleep again. When he wakes up again, everything is all right with him and they decide not to talk about what happened. They ask Henry to kill a chicken to eat tonight, but he refuses to do it. Ort decides to kill the chicken. Henry acts very strange and shouts in his sleep. A few days later he comes down and tells everyone he’s better.

Chapter 10
Henry tells about his past again, and he tells the family that he has been sent by God to help them. He explains the family who God is en tells them some stories from the bible. Tegwyn thinks its all nonsense and get’s a fight with Henry, she’s been sent to her room. Henry tells Ort and his mom that he’s a priest.
Henry tells some more things about his past, including that he got up one day and had a bright light in his eyes, no doctor knew what it was and he was sick for quite a time. When he got better one day, the woman who took care of him told him God had been with him.

Chapter 11
Ort and his mom get baptised by Henry, Tegwyn doesn’t.

Chapter 12
A few weeks later Henry suddenly leaves one morning on his old yellow bike. Ort and his mother behave very religious, they pray before supper en play the Lord’s Supper.
Because Henry’s gone, Ort and his mother now have to take care of and bath Ort’s father. Ort thinks Henry baptized his dad every time he bathed him.
Henry still hasn’t returned after a few days.
Ort spies his sister and sees her smoking on her room and putting out cigarettes on her skin. Ort kills another two chickens for supper.
Ort’s mother is very upset, probably because Henry is gone and he can’t help her take care of Sam anymore.
While Ort is in the backyard he sees the Cherry family carrying all their belongings to a truck; they’re moving out. Later that evening they’re gone, Ort sneaks to their house and pisses against the front door. He goes to their backyard and finds a Christmas present for his mother. At home Ort’s mother and Tegwyn get a fight.
Christmas is a very sad happening, because the Flack family is very poor, they weren’t able to afford each other presents, so they gave each other something they found, or stuff that used to belong to them. Ort gives his mother the present he found in the Cherry’s backyard; a sunflower.
Henry returns in an old yellow car and he has new clothes on, they decide to go picnicking.

Chapter 13
Ort wakes up in the middle of the night; he is woken by Henry, who is talking in his sleep. Henry bought a cow so the family now has milk.
Henry, Ort and Tegwyn go to the beach. Ort and Tegwyn go swimming, because there are very strong waves Ort loses his swimming pants. Henry gives him his shirt. Henry insults Tegwyn and she runs off.
After that they go to Kings Park, Ort wants to go here because this is where his parents first met.

Chapter 14
Ort notices that his mother is not so sad anymore and Henry talks a lot to his father. Ort is very nervous about going to the High School, and he’s very bored because his only friend was Fat. New people move into the house of the Cherry’s.
Ort goes to High School for the first time, the older kids immediately start to tease him and the push his head into a toilet. Also the teachers aren’t very nice to him, the headmaster even sends his mother a letter telling her to get Ort’s hair cut, on which she responds that they should mind their own business.
It keeps going on like this for weeks and Ort kind of gets used to it, but still it troubles him. He prays to God and finds rest in watching the cloud of light above his house.

Chapter 15
Ort and his mother go to the local church, which is located in the back of Mr. and Mrs. Watkins drapery shop. Henry stays at home to take care of Sam and Tegwyn. There are only 9 people in the church, and they don’t seem to appreciate the appearance of Ort and his mother. Ort doesn’t understand everything that’s happening. When the waffles are being past, Ort and his mom don’t get any. When the wine is being past, his mother quickly grabs 2 glasses. The waffles were only crackers and the wine was grape juice. When a man comes into the church to preach about the apocalypse, Ort and his mom think he’s shouting at them and the leave angry.
When they arrive at home, Ort’s father is in the driveway and Henry and Tegwyn are fighting in the kitchen. Ort prays to God to let his father walk again.

Chapter 16
Ort follows Tegwyn into the forest where she picks some flowers. Ort never saw his sister so happy. Tegwyn goes to her father’s room and puts the flowers in his hair, Ort is watching through a hole in the wall, when he walks inside and Tegwyn sees him, she quickly removes the flowers from her father’s hair and throws them away. Ort reads a story in the bible about oiling people when they’re sick.

Chapter 17
Henry takes Ort to the bus stop in the car. He doesn’t speak a word to Ort. At the bus stop Ort finds a lizard with a flat paw. It has been run over by a car. He takes it with him in his backpack. At the way back from school Ort asks Henry if animals and trees go to heaven too, Henry thinks they will. He also asks if something’s wrong with Henry. Henry talks with him about school.
The next day Ort finds his lizard dead in the wardrobe.

Chapter 18
It’s almost Easter. Ort and Tegwyn get a fight about Henry; Tegwyn thinks Henry only talks nonsense. She also asks if Ort really believes in God, Ort says he does.
Ort hears Henry telling his dad that his girlfriend Bobo Sax died on him, Henry thinks he is cursed because of that.
Ort’s mother tells Ort that she fell in love with Henry because she needed a man in her live.
People from the hospital come to visit and do some tests with Sam, they are arguing with Ort’s mother because they think Ort’s mother doesn’t take enough care of him.
Henry and Tegwyn get a fight again, Tegwyn hits Henry until he’s bleeding.
Ort’s mother tells Ort that she found out that Henry’s car is probably a stolen car.

Chapter 19
Ort and his mother are very upset and Henry and Tegwyn keep fighting. Ort and his mother decide to go to the big church in the city. Ort is very impressed by the church, his mother get’s very emotional and Ort has to drive her home in the car, he hits a lot of stuff. When he’s finished taking care of his mother and putting her in bed he goes to check on everyone. His grandmother is sleeping and Henry and Tegwyn are sleeping in the same bed.
At night Ort wakes up, his grandmother is calling. Henry and Tegwyn are fighting again. Ort decides to sleep in his grandmother’s room.

Chapter 20
De next morning Ort’s grandmother is dead. Henry and Tegwyn left together, Henry took all his belongings with him except for the bible he had with him. Ort sees and feels the light that was above his house coming in. His father is better and is crying.