Tintin is a young, but
renowned investigative
reporter who lives in Europe
with his amazing dog, Snowy.
One day they stumble across a
model of a legendary ship
called the Unicorn at an
outdoor market.
As soon as Tintin buys the
model, he is confronted by
two men, who both want to
buy his boat…
&
… desperately, insistently
and for no known reason.
Especially one of them Mr. Sakharine…
… Tintin refuses to sell,
and with that, his
adventure begins.
Then, Tintin discovers that,
Unicorn holds a scroll that can
lead to Sir Francis Haddock’s
th
treasure from the 17 century!!
Tintin puts the scroll in his wallet,
but it gets stolen by a pick pocket.
Thinking that Tintin still has the
scroll, sinister Sakharine kidnaps
him (and stowaway Snowy)
and places them aboard the
Karaboudjan cargo ship, that
is sailing to Bagghar, Africa.
On board Tintin and Snowy
meet captive and usually drunk
Captain Haddock, descendant of
Sir Francis Haddock.
They free him from his
mutinous crew, bought off by
Sakharine, and escape together.
Tintin realizes that there are three
scrolls hidden inside each of the
three models of the Unicorn, and
Sakharine is after them!
Tintin’s Unicorn contained one
scroll, Sahkarin has another one
and the third one is in Bagghar.
But when put together, the scrolls
will reveal the location of the sunken
Unicorn, and its treasure.
Tintin is now determined to get
to the third scroll and the treasure
before his evil rival.
With the help of captain
Haddock, Tintin and Snowy sail
the oceans,
fly a seaplane,
crash-land in Africa,
and cross the Sahara desert on foot
to get to Bagghar.
Hallucinating from the heat
Haddock remembers the story of
the Unicorn.
Sir Francis Haddock’s ship filled
with treasures was attacked and
sunken by a pirate Red Rackham
the ancestor of Mr. Sakharin.
Now the battle between Haddock
and Sakharin becomes personal.
The third model ship encased in
a bullet-proof glass case is in
Bagghar, owned by the wealthy
Omar Ben Salaad.
Using the voice of a famous opera
singer, Sakharine shatters the glass
and his trained hawk steals the
third scroll.
Tintin, Haddock and Snowy
chase the thief down to the
harbor, but to no avail.
Meanwhile, detectives Thompson
and Thompson find Tintin’s
wallet with the first scroll and
deliver it to Tintin in Bagghar.
Sahkarin manages to steal it too and
escapes with all three scrolls.
Tintin’s spirit is crushed.
Captain Haddock encourages Tintin
not to give up and Tintin comes up
with a plan to stop Sakharin.
Failed? You can’t let it
defeat you! You hit a
wall? You’ve got to push
through it!
Via radio Tintin gets in touch with the
police back in Europe
and they promptly arrest
Sakharine on the dockside.
Having all three scrolls, Tintin and
Haddock finally find the map with a
location of Haddock’s treasure at
the bottom of the sea!
From that adventure they learned that
you can reach any goal as long as you
persevere and don’t give up.
By Nikky Nemzer,
Period 6.