Chapter Three: The islands and the mountain

Task:

• Describe what happens on top of St. Mary's Peak
• Why does Alex think "Let him see how he likes it"?
• Who is he? What will he like or not?


Mary, Tom's wife proposed Alex to met Kevin Williams, the nephew from Tom. As he met Kevin, they had taken the tent over to Kangaroo Island. After that Alex and Kevin went to Wilpena Pound and then to St. Mary's Peak.
On the top of St. Mary's Peak Kevin talked about Tom. Alex was irritated that Tom his real father thought Alex didn't exist. It began to rain, so they went home and the conservation about Tom ended.

Before Alex went to sleep he thought "Let him see how he likes". I think Alex tried to say, how Tom reacts or what he feels when Alex flew back to London before Tom came back.

What do you think, how Tom reacts or fells?

Who was the author from the book "Australian Connection"?

Paul Stewart was born in London in 1955. He studied English and Creative Writing in Lancaster and at university of East Anglia and then he teached abroad, among other things in Germany, Sri Lanka and Australia before he returned to England to a school in Brighton. Since 1990 he only devotes himself to writing children's books, his cooperations with the illustrator Chris Riddell are successful. Paul Stewart lives with his wife and two children in Brighton today.

I give you this information about the author, because I think its important for the readers, that they know something about his life. If you ask me, the reader can maybe imagine,
why he write the story"Australian Connection"? Maybe he had a life without a dad as well like Alex too, so he wrote this story.

Source:
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Chapter Two: Hello Australia

In my opinion Alex's first 66 hours in Oz were exciting, but when he arrived at the airport, he was a little bit shocked, because his father wasn't there. As far as I'm concerned Tom must have a secret reason for this. By the way Tom was in London, so Alex couldn’t see his father for a time. At the airport he got to know Tom's wife and their children. They encourage Alex to forget about this problem.The way I see it, Alex felt like at home, because they looked after him and they were friendly.

At the Bondi beach, Alex met Dani Klavans, a girl he liked very much and the neighbor and babysitter of Tom's family. She invited Alex to play the bass guitar in her band "The Beat Crew". So the way I see it, he had an interresting,exciting and a hard day, because he met a wonderful girl, got to know Tom's family and played inDani's band.

Questions, that comes to my mind:
How will the realationship between father and son go on?
And what about Dani and Alex, will they fall in love?

Chapter One: The trip of a lifetime

I think the first chapter is a good introduction, because the text gives you the important information about the story and the charakters. To me the text is understandable and you don't need a dictionary to looking up the words.
When I read the first chapter about Alex, I was very shocked about the situation from Alex, that the father left the "family" when Alex was 2 1/2 years old. A question came to my mind as I read chapter 1, why did the father left the family? In my opinion Alex came to a good decision to visit his father in Australia and tried to get in touch with him by writting a letter. By the way it's a chance for Alex to get to know the "real father".The "real" father from Alex made a bad impression on me, because he didn't give a reason to the family why he left them. I found it good, that the mother permited Alex to fly to Australia.
This story is full of suspense and I'm excited how Alex trip go on.