Most beautiful things is not always what you thought!

I consider that opal is the dream. When we always can get what we want, we won't have anymore impetus. If they didn't go to the Australia, the story wouldn't happen. Dream doesn't need to be true. Absences of the opal dream changed all Ashmol's family and the town. At the end of this book, Ashmol's family finally came together. They all realized that there is something more important than finding the opal, going back to hometown, or finding a own place. In our real life, we always have a lot of dreams but we do not need to make them true. The absences of those dreams will make us always full of energy. We would work hard for them, and we will find some thing hide under them. For example, " I had reckoned on buying a new house and getting my mum an air ticket for a holiday in England, and all kinds of other stuff, with the money from that opal."(Rice 58) Those things are what Ashmol's dreams, however none of them became true at the end. We still can see he, all his family, and people in the town felt happy and relax at the end. I consider that dreams won't always lead you to get what you want, but it will give some surprises.