Year 9 English-The Australian Novel-
Plot Synopsis:
It is Saint Valentine's Day, February 14, 1900 at Appleyard College, an all-girl's school in Australia. The girls are going on a picnic at Hanging Rock, a natural monument formed of ancient lava rock. Before leaving, Miranda, one of the school girls, tells her orphan friend, Sara that she will not be at the school much longer. While having their picnic, four of the girls, Miranda, Marion, Irma and Edith decide to explore the rocks. Edith, fatigued and cranky, does not want to continue on as the other three do. She becomes frightened of something as they are leaving her and she runs screaming back to the picnic. Miranda, Marion, and Irma, in addition to their school teacher, Miss McCraw do not return. Two boys who saw the four girls while they were exploring went looking for Miranda and her schoolmates. While looking, one boy, Michael becomes delirious and injures himself on the rocks. He had found Irma though, and the other boy, Albert (who works for the colonel, is also an orphan, and is Sara's lost brother) goes back up the rocks to find her. She is still alive but she can't remember anything that happened to her. The remaining missing girls and Miss McCraw are never found.
