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It is a young-adult book by an Australian author called J.C. Burke. He has to deal with the imprisonment of his brother as well as a new town after a terrible accident. Tom has a hard time keeping up his spirits at the start of the book, but as the storey goes on, he starts to figure out who he is. ...

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The Story of Tom Brennan by A.C. Burke

It is a young-adult book by an Australian author called J.C. Burke. He has to deal with the imprisonment of his brother as well as a new town after a terrible accident. Tom has a hard time keeping up his spirits at the start of the book, but as the storey goes on, he starts to figure out who he is. The book, which came out in 2005, was named Book of the Year by the Children's Book Council of Australia. It also won the Australian Family Therapists Award for Children's Literature, which is given to books for kids. Story of Tom Brennan is another book that is often used in high school curriculums as well. During the night, the Brennan family moves out of their home in Mumbili. That's how the storey of Tom Brennan starts. He and his family have all moved into his grandmother's house as the new school year starts. During a series of flashbacks, we learn that Tom and his family left their hometown for a reason, and it has something to do with his brother, Daniel, who is in prison. When Tom and Kylie start school in the present, we find out that Daniel crashed his car while drunk after arguing with their cousin, Fin, about Daniel's girlfriend. With people like the Tulakes (Jonny and his younger sister, Chrissy), Tom finds a way to fit in and enjoy his new school. The people who give Tom a wool booty for Fin even though they think it's for Tom's grandfather are very kind. Tom's visit with Fin, on the other hand, is stressful for him and makes him remember the worst parts of the accident. There aren't enough rooms for him to see Daniel, so he spends most of his weekends alone when his family is away. Tom remembers why Sunday mornings are so hard for him when he's alone. He thinks about how hard it was for everyone the morning after the accident. In his new school, Tom tries out for the football team and makes the first team, even though he doesn't like it because he thinks it is bad. Tom thinks about how much his life has changed in the days before he and Brendan go to see Daniel for the first time in a long time. This time, he thinks about the days before the sentencing. At the prison, they quickly figure out that Daniel is having a hard time. A week later, Daniel moves to the Westleigh Peer Support facility. Tom, too, starts running with Brendan in the mornings. Aunty Kath, Fin's mother, comes to visit, and Tom also starts running with Brendan in the morning. There is a fight between Aunty Kath and Tom's mother, who has been depressed since Daniel went to prison. She tells her that she should have been more involved in her younger children's lives. Because Auntie Kath doesn't say everything that's true, it still gets Tom's mom out of the house. Later, Tom and his sister, Kylie, fight after Kylie tells her public speaking class about Daniel's accident and how the town made fun of them after. When they move to a new town with Coghill, however, they find that their new neighbours are kind. Brendan and Tom go to see Daniel in the crisis centre, and it looks like he's getting better. When Fin's birthday comes, Kylie goes into Tom's room and tries to make things right. Tom, on the other hand, says that the truth had to come out at some point or another. Fin's birthday is going well until the family comes back to Coghill and finds out that Daniel has regressed again. People from Tom's family go off and take care of that problem while Tom keeps practising. Then Tom's dad can go with Tom and his

team to their football camp. The team isn't as good as Tom used to think it was, but his dad tells him that the boys from Bennie's truly love football, which is something that wasn't there for the team in Mumbili. During his one-on-one visit with Daniel, Tom realises that the two of them have grown apart in how they view rugby over the years. Tom's mother says she's sorry for not being in the moment. In the book, Chrissy and Jonny, who have been friends with Brendan and Tom for a long time (Jonny is Brendan's boyfriend). They invite them to dinner after their school's rivals play. During Christmas, Chrissy convinces Tom to go to Nepal with Brendan's idea of what to do: visit the country. To Tom's surprise, Kylie has cut her hair. When he asks why, she tells him that she's having a hard time dealing with her guilt over the accident. She blames herself for the accident because she set up Fin and Claire, Daniel's girlfriend, to fight. Claire was the target of the fight between Fin and Daniel, and she feels bad about it. But Tom says that it was not their fault and there was nothing they could have done. On one of their morning runs, Brendan shows Tom his favourite secret watering hole. Tom suggests that they build a chicken coop for Gran, with whom he's become closer, for her birthday. The team is getting ready for the match against Tom's old school, St. John's. Tom's new teammates support him all the way through the match. Even though they lost the game, they're proud of how they did in the end. One of the people in the audience, on the other hand, says something about the Brennans being killers, which throws Tom off, but he doesn't pay attention. She comes up as he's walking away from the field, and they drive off together. Chrissy is finally able to hear what Tom has to say when the two of them stop. Tom kisses her, and they start to go out. A few days after Gran's party, Tom throws an 18th birthday party for himself, where he gives his grandmother the chicken coop he made. Gran buys him plane tickets to Nepal in exchange for him going with her to the country. It comes to an end with Tom and Chrissy having sex. One of the most important things about this book is that Tom plays rugby. During the early 1800s, rugby was played by two teams with fifteen plays each. A private secondary school in Rugby, Warwickshire called Rugby School came up with the first rules for rugby in 1845, and they came up with them. A group of alumni from Rugby School brought the game to Cambridge in 1848. It was made by the students there. By 1863, the first "football" or "rugby" association had been set up. They also changed the rules of rugby, so much so that they became known as "association football," which has evolved into modern football, or soccer as it's known here in the United States. This is what we call "modern football." Another group that didn't want to change any of the rugby rules started the Rugby Football Union in 1871, which played what became known as rugby football at the time. Finally, in 1895, there was an even more important split that split this association into rugby league and rugby union. Rugby Union is played around the world, and Rugby League is only played in Northern England. Rugby started in the British Isles, but it quickly spread around the world. As part of the first Rugby World Cup, which is the most important competition in rugby, Australia and New Zealand hosted the first event in 1987. The first Australian rugby

club was formed there in 1864. In 2016, rugby was added to the Olympics. People all over the world now play the game. One of the most common things that people in The Story of Tom Brennan have trouble with is anger. Everyone has to learn how to process and deal with their own anger, even though Daniel's anger is the first thing to go wrong in the storey Tom has to learn how to work through his anger with Daniel and the whole situation by connecting with other people. Kylie and Daniel have to learn how not to take their anger out on other people. The fact that each of them has a very unique reason to be angry doesn't mean that they can't learn how to be loving even though they are angry. Tom's family is still very important to him, even though the accident had a big impact on their relationship. Daniel and Fin are cousins, which means that the effects of the accident on their family life are doubled because they are both friends and cousins. It's hard for the family to deal with both Daniel's crime and Fin's. Because this situation is messy, however, it doesn't mean that the family can't be the force that brings people together and helps them heal. Even though Daniel and Fin are at odds with each other, Tom's family, like Brendan and his grandmother, play a big part in making Tom's life meaningful. This is even though Daniel and Fin are at odds with each other. Things aren't perfect at the end of the book, but they're a long way from where they were at the start. This is how it works: As Tom has to deal with Daniel's accident, he also has to deal with the problems that come with growing up. The way he sees himself and the way he sees the community can make him feel lost. Tom has to grow up and figure out who he is on his own, without the help of his older brother. On the football team, he has to start taking more responsibility and becoming a leader for the younger boys. There's more to Tom than being the little brother. Before, Tom only saw himself in Mumbili. Now, he has a wider perspective and can see what the future holds for him and the people around him. Tom has to learn how to build new communities and relationships after the accident, and he has to do this all the way through the book. First, Tom has a hard time finding himself in Coghill because so much of who he is is based on playing on the team with Daniel and Fin, which isn't going to happen. As the book goes on, we see Tom start to figure out who he is in new and different ways. On the rugby team, Tom learns to love rugby instead of seeing it as just a game, and he starts to become a leader. With Brendan, Chrissy, and Jonny, Tom learns to let go of the past and live his life the way he wants to without having to worry so much about the past. Finally, Tom is happy with how he's made friends and families with people who are close to him. Another thing that Tom must learn is how to deal with what happened in the past. His friends and family also go through their own process of trying to understand what happened in August, and he's not the only one. One by one, each of them has to deal with their own grief as well as how their own actions might have led to the events that led to their grief. To make things even more complicated, they must also learn how to let the past help them figure out their future, not rule it. It's important for Tom to understand that Daniel's mistakes were not his fault and that even though he'll always miss Mumbilli, he can also have a life in Coghill.

Take responsibility for your actions: Tom and Daniel both have a journey ahead of them to do this. For Tom, this looks like stepping up to the plate when he joins his new rugby club. When Tom thinks the boys are bad, he needs to show leadership and help the other boys improve. It is time for him to do for them what Daniel did for him when they were younger. His dad says that. When Daniel thinks about the huge damage his actions have done, he has to start to understand that no amount of punishment can change that damage. Even though he isn't done with this process yet, he is on the way to being able to deal with that fact. We see Tom's relationship with rugby change over the course of the book. While he has always been a fan of rugby, when he comes to Coghill, he has a hard time truly enjoying it. This isn't just because rugby is linked to Daniel and the past, but also because he takes it very seriously and takes it very seriously. Tom doesn't enjoy the game as much when he plays it with the boys from Bennie's because they aren't as good or as competitive as the boys from St. John's, so he doesn't enjoy it as much. The way they played at St. John's made people unhappy, but the Coghill team is having fun and loving what they do. The love of football is just as important as, if not more important, than being competitive. Tom finally understands this at football camp. Throughout the book, the characters climb both real and imaginary hills. Tom and Brendan go for morning runs every day, and as they learn how to climb some of the hills in their town, they also learn how to climb some of the more difficult social and emotional ones they've been facing since the accident. The hill called Daniel's Whine is mentioned often in the book. As he thinks about how things used to be before the accident, Tom sees a "Black Tunnel." There is a reason why the symbol is so powerful: It isn't easy to choose to be pessimistic and depressed. Tom doesn't want to go into the Black Tunnel, but at times he can't help but do so. Rugby is an important symbol in the storey. Pre-accident, it shows how much people thought of Tom's family in a good way; after the accident, it shows how he got back to normal. The connection to teamwork is ironic: Daniel is very good at the sport, but he only cares about winning and isn't really a team player. The judge will later base his sentence on the fact that as a team player, Daniel should have known better. Tom sees water as a symbol of important events in his life. One of Daniel's flashbacks shows that his brother often loses control of his emotions, and it also acts as a kind of hidden foreshadowing for what will happen. One day, Tom Brennan went swimming with his girlfriend in the morning, and it was the moment that "Tom Brennan came back for good." Cooking is a common theme in the storey, and it shows up in all of the characters. It shows how Tess' near-catatonia made her rely on Gran's food. Mrs. Brennan had always been a good cook, and the dependence on Gran's mostly unpalatable food shows the effects of Tess' near-catatonia. Kath, on the other hand, used to be very good at baking for Fin, but now that he can't move, she has to change her whole way of making food for him. When Tom, who is obsessed with how good he is at rugby, accidentally eats an apple strudel that was made by Kylie for a school project. This causes an argument that shows how the siblings are dealing with the same problems in

different ways. Kylie and her aunt, Kath, also become close because they cook together. Images used by the author help make the discovery of dead bodies trapped in a car after an accident more powerful. Death is made very real and visceral because of the almost deadpan description: "I could just see the top of Fin's head peeking out of one of the back doors." When he lay down, the seats and metal fell on top of him. At least down there, he couldn't see Nicole with her head resting on her shoulder and Luke staring at nothing. Images also show the consequences of drunk driving that aren't as bad as death. These consequences are also shown. People can learn about how things work by looking at Fin. When you use simple, stripped-down language, you show how powerful it can be to describe things in a way that is easy to understand. A hospital AC unit broke that day because December was hot. Fin didn't have a sheet over him. His legs had turned into long pieces of bone and shiny skin. I couldn't stop staring at the sky, and I didn't want to stop. Those were the legs that had pushed their way across the field to score the try of the season, then kicked the ball through the posts for a conversion and a victory. The posts are about how to change and win. It was hard for me to figure out what to do with them now that they were on the bed. The book has a lot of references to the colour black in it. Black is used both literally and metaphorically to show the mood, atmosphere, and emotional space in which the main character is living, as well as the things that are in that space. They say, "If I could look at it that way, maybe I could stop myself from falling into the blackness." It's very likely that accidents will happen. The reason we call most of them accidents is because they can't be predicted before they happen. After all, if someone could predict an accident before it happened, it wouldn't be an accident, would it? If you don't know what happened, there are still chances that a certain person will get into an accident. Everyone can use the same imagery to predict the future of at least one person in their lives, so this is a good way to think about it....