Carl hanser celebrating 20 years of hanser childrens books. Without looking at it he screwed it up and stuffed it into his bag. Two girls and a boy sat opposite in dark coats and ties, staring at us like undertakers. Moby dick does not just appear in the epigrams, it is part of the fabric of the book creating intertextual connections between the books. Bauers writing isnt poetic, but has the kind of spare, descriptive quality that not only childrens, but also a lot of mainstream australian, fiction favours. Fishtail le sewer and its variations, created by barry personality. Teaching novels and narratives a unit of work for teaching dont call me. James scobie, ignatius prindabel, bill kingsley and i were sitting at one.
The relationships in dont call me ishmael are quite extensive but the main relationship that everyone notices is between ishmael and kelly falkner. Bill kingsley and a very smart nerd ignatius prindabel participate in debating. Dont call me ishmael is filled with lots of examples of bullying. The book is in the form of a journal, written in the first person and kept by the. Dont call me ishmael by michael gerard bauer thebookbag. However, ishmael is forced to debate due to bill being sick and then later. Carol leseur mother, ron leseur father and prue leseur sister. About the author 2009 michael gerard bauer, is is the awardwinning author of dont call me ishmael. Dont call me ishmael ishmael leseurthe protagonist of the series, he starts out as an awkward and shy victim of bullying. We can notice intertextuality occurring in a text we are reading or viewing when the writer starts to make references to another text. As well some other affect of barrys bullying make ishmael hate his name and make bill kingsley. He gets along great with sallys little siblings and helps to coach the younger students football teams genius ditz.
Even though he is the ditz when it comes to schoolwork, he is a genius at anything related to sports and a very competent trainer as well heterosexual lifepartners. Last year he spent an entire day looking for his good pen until someone took pity on him and. Ishmael and the return of the dugongs is a fiction book by michael gerard bauer, released in 2007. In which the characters from dont call me ishmael discuss their. Sure even someone who had their brain removed by ali ens and replaced with sludge could see that. In the later books he is this with ignatius and scobie. Has this relationship with ishmael by the end of the books, as detailed above. Dont call me ishmael is a young adult novel by australian author michael gerard bauer. When kelly is introduced into the book ishmael is already drooling over her, she later on properly meets ishmael and they become good friends. Ishmael later intervenes when he sees barry and his friends tease a boy who joins ishmaels year level.
The examples of bullying in dont call me ishmael kibin. He is a big fan of fantasy and sciencefiction and often zones out into his own world. Shy, tries to be nice, gets stage fright, doesnt really like to try new things and hates his name. Bill kingsley, dreamy geek, described as still waters, running shallow. The musical by fin taylor and christopher thompson, was premiered in brisbane. Intertexuality is a special literary device used in writing. No offence, kingsley, but i dont think saying, thats quite a good point, actually, is going to be enough to blow prestons case out of the water. After some preliminaries covering ishmaels home and name, the story settles into a tale of school life.
Its not easy having a weird name, as many teenagers with foreign or experimental parents can attest or unusual looks, or a stutter, or being too fat or too skinny, or shy, or any other characteristic that marks a child out from a very narrow mainstream. He has taught english and economics, and lives in the suburb of ashgrove, australia. Check out the first two books in his trilogy, swim the fly and beat the band. Ishmael leseur, of the title, is a fourteenyearold boy attending st daniels college. Apart from the usual problems associated with being fourteen and attending school. Bill kingsley bill is very quiet and selfconscious due to his weight.