In this book we meet a young boy named Charlie. Charlie is living with his Auntie Maud. He is 14 years old and he is very scrawny. He wants to go to sea like his father and his grandpa. His dad is the Captain of a ship and he goes hunting seals every now and then.
Charlie has problems with his leg and eventually goes to the hospital to get it fixed. Charlie ends up in a room with a boy named Davy who has no legs. They become very good friends and have great adventures while Charlie is at the hospital. A nurse named Mac looks after Charlie in the hospital. Finally he gets out and is able to go home.
He leaves to visit his father and then he overhears his dad talking about him. His dad says that Charlie isn't good enough for the sea. Charlie packs up and sneaks out his window that night. He goes to the port and sneaks on a ship by crawling into a box. He stays in the box for days before someone finds him. Two soldiers find him and give him food and a drink. After he is done eating he asks why there are so many soldiers aboard the ship and the soldier tells him they're going to war.
They get off in France and Charlie goes to see the Matron-inn-Chief who is like a judge. She tells him that he can work at the hospital until he finds a passage home. Charlie meets Mac in the hospital that he is helping in and takes her on a picnic.
Questions:
1. What is the setting for this novel?
2. Why is the setting important to this story?
3. Whose point of view is the story being told from?
4. What conflicts arise throughout this story? Are the conflicts resolved? Why or why not?
5. If you could change one thing about this novel, what would it be?
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3 comments:
1. The setting for this novel is in NewfoundLand and France.
2. The setting is important to this story because if Charlie didn't come from Newfoundland he would have probably got shot.
3. This story is being told by third person (a narrator).
4. Some conflicts that took place in this story were Charlie trying to get into the boat and surviving. Those conflicts were resolved because he got in and out safely enough.
5. I wouldn't change one thing about the book.
1. The setting of this story was in Newfoundland.
2. The setting of the story is important to know because it is easier to tell what is going on if you can kind of picture where it is.
3. The story point of view is coming from the author.
4. The conflicts in the story are that Charlie is alone, he sort of fights with the “girl” in a chapter about getting a job at the hospital.
5. I would make the book a little more “up to date.” That is the only thing I would change, but I can see that maybe the book was written closer to that time.
1. The setting for this novel is different places in Newfoundland and the war trenches.
2. The setting for this novel is important because if they didn't have it at the war then he wouldn't be at the war.
3. This story is being told from the all-knowing/omniscient point of view.
4. There are a few conflicts that arise throughout this story; they are when Charlie fights with Clint, when he is mad at Davy about going up to the roof, and when Martin and him meet up in the trenches. They are all resolved in some way or another.
5. If I could change one thing about this novel it would be to have made it a little bit longer.
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