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Clarry Hazzard
Daughter to Clarry Hazzard and Jean Hazzard, and great-aunt to Sadie Hazzard. Sarah, nicknamed Sadie, is a young teenager in 1933, the year when Gerald Mortlock murders Jimmy Raven. She is drawn into helping cover up the murder by her father, Clarry, who uses her to destroy traces of the crime. When the contemporary Sadie Hazzard travels to the past, she inhabits her great-aunt Sarah Louise’s body, and this is how she learns about the events surrounding Jimmy Raven’s murder. It is through Sarah Louise’s body that Sadie also manages to locate Jimmy’s “special things,” the sacred objects that he carried and which were lost after his death, so that she can return them to Auntie Lily and other members of the Aboriginal community.
Sarah Louise “Sadie” Hazzard Quotes in Crow Country
The Crow Country quotes below are all either spoken by Sarah Louise “Sadie” Hazzard or refer to Sarah Louise “Sadie” Hazzard. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 7 Quotes
As Sadie whipped the newspaper off the table, an upside-down headline caught her eye – something about a person called Hitler. Her heart gave a peculiar involuntary skip. The date was printed at the top of the page. Friday June 23, 1933.
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Chapter 8 Quotes
[…] Dad had fought the whole town council, when the war memorial was built, to have Jimmy’s name put on it, too. They said it couldn’t be done, because Jimmy hadn’t enlisted in Boort; he’d joined up down in Melbourne. But Dad said he belonged in Boort as much as anyone, and deserved to have his name up there with the rest. After all, Bert Murchison had joined up in Melbourne, too, and no one said he should be left off.
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Chapter 12 Quotes
“Well, it is his land, Jimmy,” said Clarry. “Why shouldn’t he build a dam if he wants to?”
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“No!” Jimmy broke away; Sadie could see the fierce light in his eyes. “No. He mustn’t do that.” […] “It’s like - it’d be like me settin’ that church on fire.” Jimmy flung out his arm in the direction of the little weatherboard church. “What would you say if I set the church on fire, hey?”
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Chapter 17 Quotes
Mr Mortlock’s hand shot out and twisted into Dad’s shirt. “I’ve killed the bugger, Clarry. I’ve gone and killed him.”
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Chapter 18 Quotes
“Why are you doing this, Dad? Why?” And then Sadie’s voice had risen to a scream, and Dad grabbed her arm and shook her.
“Be quiet, Sadie, for God’s sake!”
“It’s not right, Dad, you know it!”
“I have to help Gerald; I promised I’d look out for him.”
“And what about Jimmy? Didn’t you promise him, too?” Her voice rose, shrill, hysterical. “Jimmy was murdered! Gerald Mortlock should hang for this!”
Dad slapped her face.
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Sarah Louise “Sadie” Hazzard Character Timeline in Crow Country
The timeline below shows where the character Sarah Louise “Sadie” Hazzard appears in Crow Country. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Chapter 7
Sarah Louise runs in the darkness. Soon, she spots some faint lights in the distance, which,...
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Sarah Louise lets herself into a busy kitchen, where Mum is cooking and John is poring...
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As Sarah Louise clears the table for dinner, she picks up a newspaper. There is a headline...
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...the family all sits down. His presence has a calming effect on the children, including Sarah Louise. They all joke about Sadie’s undercooked peas, which she boiled earlier.
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After dinner, Sarah Louise sits in a chair by the stove. Her mother Jean goes upstairs to put...
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Chapter 8
Sarah Louise wakes up to find herself alone in the kitchen with Jean and Clarry. Someone...
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Clarry and Jean suddenly notice that Sarah Louise is still in her chair and ask her if she’s feeling well. She is...
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Chapter 12
When Sarah Louise rises, she is in the kitchen doorway behind the shop. She is throwing out...
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Gerald Mortlock leaves and Sarah Louise listens as her father, Clarry, questions Jimmy Raven about his conflict with Gerald. Jimmy...
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Sarah Louise then calls Jimmy from the darkness. She tells him that she thinks she understands...
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Chapter 17
...the supermarket, Sadie faints, and soon after, she finds herself in the year 1933, as Sarah Louise. She’s in the Hazzards’ shop with Jean, her mother, counting money. As Jean tells...
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Sarah Louise rushes to find her father, Clarry, whom she brings back to the shop front....
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Clarry leaves Gerald Mortlock in the shop, locks up, and takes Sarah Louise with him. They arrive at the stone circle, where they hear a groan. They...
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Chapter 18
In tears, Sarah Louise angrily makes her way home. She can’t believe that her father, Clarry, wants to...
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Sarah Louise goes to the shop, where she finds Gerald Mortlock still slumped over, though he...
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Still, Sarah Louise helps clean up Gerald Mortlock, as Clarry instructed her. Mortlock tells her that the...
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...dirty. Clarry tells Gerald Mortlock that he buried Jimmy’s body in the Mortlock family graveyard. Sarah Louise wants to weep—she knows that Jimmy “should have been buried near the stones, under...
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Chapter 19
...Boort and wants to stay. Privately, she thinks that now she’s inherited the other Sadie (Sarah’s) body and gotten to know Clarry and Jean, she can’t leave.
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...a month after Gerald. She grows dizzy when she uncovers another inscription on the gravestone: Sarah Louise (the other Sadie), who died in 1934. The words “When the Law is broken...
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Chapter 25
Clarry calls to Sarah Louise. It is 1933, and she is standing in the shop with Gerald Mortlock and...
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Clarry goes to bed, and Sarah Louise throws Gerald Mortlock’s bloodied clothes into the fire. As she empties the pockets of...
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Suddenly, Sadie, in the body of Sarah Louise, realizes that she is herself, Sadie from the future, daughter of Ellie Hazzard. Although...
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Chapter 27
Sadie finds the tree on which she (as Sarah) had etched an “S” in 1933. A crow watches her as she digs and digs....
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Chapter 28
...turns to the crow. She tells him that she had gone to visit the other Sarah Louise’s grave again, but it was gone. And when she asked her mother about her...
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