Private Peaceful 1

My Secret scripture book is momentarily on hold because of a slight issue and in the mean time i have started a new book called Private peaceful written by a very famous author Michael Morpurgo. I have read one or two of his books before and enjoyed the delicately written but quite sad book. This book is based on Innocence and love and courage and cowardice it says on the front cover. It is very relevant to our theme because its a novel based on the first World War. At the back cover the blurb says :" As young Thomas peaceful looks back over his childhood from the battlefields of the First World War, his memories are full of family life and deep in the countryside" I have read book before such as the Secret scripture focusing on the past life of a character and also seeing the point of view from within the characters head. I am curious to see if their are more than one narrateur and more than one point of view and if the story is complicated to follow or not.

So far in this novel I have discovered that there is a little boy named Thomas Peaceful otherwise called Tommo who is walking down the street with his older brother Charlie about to go to his first day of School. Tommo does not want to go and is complaining about his boots being to heavy and that his collar is chocking him. Tommo is scared of Mr Munnings and his raging tempers and hi long whipping cane. Tommo has an older brother named Big Joe that doe not have to go to school and is always happy spending his days in a tree singing. I believe that it is odd that Big Joe does not need to go to school and never has : maybe Big Joe has some mental issues or was not forced because he did not need n education ?  Later on Tommo sees a dead crow hanging on a fence and after that a rather unusual paragraph is shown about an other bird  : " The robin was watching me from Father's rose bush, her black and beady eyes unblinking, begging me. Father was in that bird's eye." These lines are interesting  to me in a very subtle way because we find out that his father died and how Tommo loves birds especially robins and how once a mean crow did a murderous deed. In my point of vue Tommo is trying to relate the admiration for his father and how in something he loves he finds is farther's should and how his father was taken away from him in a torturous manner.....

I am so far enjoying this book and will be continuing to post and read :)