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 treasure from the 17th

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.