Writer: Mandy Loader
Title: The Quest
Number of pages: 59
Mandy Loader – The Quest
Characters:
Main Character: - Mark Blackburn
Blue eyes, long blond hair, owner of the Quest, searches for wrecks that sank a lot of centuries ago.
By Characters:
- John Morgan
Young man, dark hair with a little bit of curls, works for Mark Blackburn.
- Lek
The helper of Daeng, always has a cap on his head, has Chinese split eyes.
- Daeng
Has a little money, with that little money he has bought a rowboat, is a fisher, his cap is a Chinese cap and it has the looks of a lampe-shade, has Chinese split eyes.
- The Collector
Has 2 helpers, always wears sunglasses, he will not tell his name (that is why I have called him ‘The Collector’, that is his name in the story too), about 50 years old, small man, dark hair, thin and clever face.
The places in this story
This is a story that takes place in Thailand in South-east Asia. To the south of Thailand is the beautiful blue water of the Gulf of Thailand. First they are in the haven of Si Racha and from there are the going to the island Ko Lan.
Brief Summary
There was a monsoon coming. Then it rained the whole day, whole weeks. But that is later, first we are in the haven of Si Racha where Daeng buys a new boat. He and Lek go sailing with that boat and find a plate. They go with that plate to the Quest and Mark, who is on board, says that it is of Swatow porcelain and that it comes from the boat of Marco Polo. Mark wants to know where Daenge has found that plate and makes an appointment the next day early in the morning. When Lek goes back to his house, there is some man coming to him and they ask him whether he knows were the boat ‘the Quest’ is, and Lek says cheerfully that there is an old plate of Swatow porcelain. The man gets a big smile on his face and walks away.
The next day Mark and John go to the haven and go to the boat of Daeng. He isn’t there but Mark saw a thing glistening in the water. He lies on his belly and looks into the water. He saw that Daeng was on the bottom of the water. He is dead.
Now Mark and John can’t go to the place where the wreck is. But then they remember that there was another boy who was going with Daeng. They go search for him and find him quickly. He said that he knows where the wreck is too, but he doesn’t know it for sure. They go into the boat of Mark and go to the place where Lek thinks the wreck is. Mark and John search for a lot of days and than they find it. Lek can’t dive and he stays on the boat. They do not have many days anymore until the monsoon starts, so they must hurry. It takes a lot of days too before they have gotten the sand off the wreck, but then they have the sand off the wreck. It is late in the evening and they go back to the boat. The next day the monsoon starts, and Mark and John go back to the wreck one more time, they are curious about what’s inside the wreck. In the wreck they find more Swallow porcelain. When they go back to the boat, there was a another boat next to the Quest. When they come onto the boat there are 3 men. Two of them have a pistol. Another man will not say what his name is, but he says that they may call him ‘The Collector’. He wants the porcelain. When the Collecter’s men go away, they open the seacock. The Quest sinks and Lek tries to throw the water out of the boat with a bucket. John begins to pump the water out of the boat. When they have almost all of the water out of the boat, there comes a huge wave of dark water, but everybody on board is all right. When they go further, Mark sees a light, an emergency flare. He goes to the boat in emergency and when they come to the boat, he sees that it is the men of the Collector. Lek said that Mark must leave them.
All the porcelain is taken out of the wreck and is going to the National Museum a few weeks later. Then there comes a young boy with a Chinese vase wrap in a piece of clothes. In the vase was paper onwhich it said that the vase is coming from The Collector.
Explanation of the title
The title of the book is ‘The Quest’. The reason that the writer have chosen for this title is that the ship of Mark Blackburn has that name.
My Opinion
I think it’s a nice book. When I saw the book at first, I thought that it was boring, I thought that the book played in the past, but fortunately it wasn’t so. Afterwards I like the book.
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hello thanks for the bookreport and i have learn a lot on this site
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ja sorry maar ik heb nog nooit zo'n slecht engels gelezen, ik snap er nu al niks meer van.
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Ik weet bijna zeker dat die van jou slechter is.
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hoi, ik heb heel veel aan deze samenvating gehad. maar weet je misschien ook in welke tijd dit boekje zich afspeelt?
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