Moral Value of the Novel

Back to the dreamtime is a novel about a son, Richard wanted to accomplish his father’s will. He found the Aboriginal decoration, tjurunga while cleaning the attics with his siblings. When Sonya and Joe told him about the tjurunga, he decided to complete the mission. He went to many places such as Alice Springs at Darwin, the Lake Armadeus and Hermannsburg Mission together with Tom, his friend Bradley and two guiders that have been send by the chief leader, Urandangi . Walpiri and Aratjara. Finally, they found his father’s burial at Ayers Rock. The Aboriginal people call it as Uluru. It was a sacred area. On that evening, they performed a “corroboree” to awaken the spirits of the Dreamtime. At the end, Richard decided to help his people by studying in Department of Aboriginal in University of Sydney. there are several moral value that can gain from this novel; we must be a good son and helping, do not take things for granted and we need to be caring among the familiy members. Firstly, we must be a good son and helping. As a son, we must obey to our parents. They have raised and educate us until we know the meaning of life. In this novel, even though Richard was adopted, he still be a good son and obey of his adopted parents. It shows on page 9 when Richard and his siblings was playing cricket in the backyard. His father came and asked for three volunteers to helped him cleaning the attics. Even though they was refusing, but they still obey and move to attics to help their father cleaning the place. It is also showed that they are helping each other. It shows on page 10, in chapter 2, Richard and his siblings, Judy and Tom was cleaning the attics together. And there was the place that they found the tjurunga. Next, we cannot take things for granted. It might be not important to us. But we do not know the things was extremely important actually. As example from this novel, from page 13 in chapter 3, Richard’s father, Joe was blamed himself when Richard found