Hello Ms Gelso and classmates, This is the book report written in two parts.
Part I
Title, Author, Genre
The book I read during November, is one of Michelle Magorian’s novels called Good Night, Mr. Tom. It was first published in 1981 and it is a historical novel.
Summary
The plot of this book takes place in 1939, during World War II. William Beech, one of the many evacuees needs to go from the town of London to a small village in the countryside, called Little Weirwold. There, an old and closed to himself man, Tom Oakley, takes little Willie under his care. In the beginning, everyone is nervous and stressed, but both of these two main characters change personality through the story, as events that occur, make them think and act as they have never before. Willie learns a new aspect of life, by doing things for the first time and by making friends. But, from the other hand, Tom has feelings that he hasn’t felt for years, and specifically from his wife and son’s death. The book ends with Mr. Tom Oakley becoming Will’s father, and with Zach’s (Willie’s best friend) death.
Main Characters
In this novel, there are a lot of characters, that each appears in different occasions. But, my opinion is that the main characters are four: Willie, Mr. Tom, Ms Beech (Will’s mum) and finally Zach. William Beech, is a puny child, physically and mentally abused by his mother. In the first chapters of the book he is curious about the new place and very afraid of Tom. Throughout the story, as a dynamic character, he expresses himself with different ways (as in the closet where he reconsiders many events that happened), he experiments with many new things (as the first time he swims), and he understands that he is really good at drawing. When he is forced to go back to London, he comprehends the meaning of having someone who loves you near you, something that his mother didn’t do all these years. With Zach’s death, he tries to fill the gap in his heart by pretending he is him when he understands that this is illogical. Tom Oakley, a gray-haired man with a very gruff voice, is a person who stayed alone all these years (with his dog Sammy, too), from the event that shocked his life (his wife and son’s death). When he first takes Willie home, he talks to him aggressively but this is something that happened only in the beginning as later, he buys him new stuff as clothes and tools for his passion, and respects him the same way a parent would do. From the time Will has to return, he feels the loneliness he was feeling thirty years ago, and that’s why he takes the courage to travel the long way to London, save him from his mentally-sick mother and even kidnap him from the people in the hospital who made him have nightmares every day. In the end of the story, he adopts Will. Zach, is a character that doesn’t appear from the beginning of the novel but he manages to win the readers’ attention with his personality but also Will’s trust and make him his best friend. He is a person with many dreams for the future and he likes to be always with Will. With Willie’s departure, he feels sad and depressed especially when he doesn’t have an answer to the letters he has sent. When Will returns, he is very happy until he learns that his father is very injured and goes to London, where he dies by a bomb. Lastly, Will’s mother, Ms Beech (her name was never mentioned) plays a very important role when she says to the Billeting Officer that she wants her son to live somewhere where there is a church near. With that, she seems religious something that her actions don’t confirm as she ties Will’s undershirts with underpants and hits him with a belt until blood appears. Also, with the new baby, Trudy, she looks suspicious because she doesn’t tell Will the truth. Finally, when she blames her son of stealing everything and hates Zach that’s not the same religion as they are, Will starts wanting to go back. In the end she commits suicide.
This book has many major themes as the ones we mentioned in class. This book wants to show the significance of friendship, hatred, war, loyalty, respect, trust, new experiences and many, many more. That’s why everyone who reads it, feels in the end how quickly time passed.
Recommendations/Warnings
This book is very emotional, especially in the last chapters. That’s why from the time I passed the 15th chapter, I read the rest of the book in 1 day.
Additional Information
Other books of Michelle Magorian except Good Night, Mr. Tom, are the Back Home, Waiting for my Shorts to dry and many more. The latest one that was published in 2008 and is called Just Henry.
Book report Good Night Mr. Tom Title, Author, Genre This month we read a realistic fiction book which was written by Michelle Magorian. The name of this interesting book is Good Night Mr. Tom. In this we can see historic facts which are the setting meanwhile the story is fiction created by the author. Summary This novel talks about an unfortunate kid who lives with a really mean mom. The kid is named Willie and lives during the 2 world war in England. We can see that an important event happens in his life which is the war. Which obligates kids to go to the countryside. When he goes to the countryside he meets Mr. Tom. Who seems unkind but develops and becomes Willie’s best friend. During this period in the countryside he develops a friendship with a Jew named Zach, he goes to a school , develops friendships with people but sadly understand that his mom treatments weren’t full of love but of hatred. Later Willie has the sad obligation to go back to London. In London his mom attends him, when he arrives he is insulted an d shout at. During this period the mom runs away from home and commits suicide. Finally in the novel we can see that Willie is brought back to the countryside by Tom when he kidnapped him. During his life in the countryside Zach, his sister, his mom die. We can see the love of the teacher towards Willie because after his sister dies because of the mom he lets him play with the little girl Main characters Willie- is the main character. He has various conflicts between himself and with society not only even with the mother. His action are majorly affected of fear throughout the full novel. His perspective of life also changes so we can see that he is a static character. Willie’s mom- is aggressive and never changes there so a dynamic character. She is full of hatred towards her children and treats them with aggressive education and uses a belt to heat young kids. Tom- is a static character, is affected by his memory’s for one reason that he had a son named Willie who died with his spouse. He is a courageous character and we can see his courage Zach-his life is affected by his religion, is a great friend to Willie. He is a great static character and is always friendly. Willie’s sister- has no power to do anything but is killed by the mother even though she was so young. She died in the closet suffocated. Teacher- Loving and static. She shows her love to Willie when she lets him play with the baby. Major themes Fear- one of the most important themes which affects characters throughout the novel. We can see it through Willie at the beginning when he is really scared that Tom discovers the belt inside the bag. He says that Mr. Tom seemed stronger than his mom. As you have noticed he is also scared of his mom. Friendship- During the novel we can also see a friendly relation which grows between Zach and Willie. Their friendship was the first friendship Willie ever had. We can see how strong the relationship at the end of the book when Zach dies as a normal person he cries but is affected and is always sad for a long period of time. Love- Love is the last major theme in this book. We can see that the greatest love relationship is built between the main character Willie and Tom. During The novel we can see that Tom kidnaps Willie and brings him back to Little Wierworld. Later we can see a connection of Willie for Tom because Willie was also the name of his son.
Warnings/Recommendation I honestly found this book a book with high tension but sincerely boring I have read other books which I would definitely preferred reading than this one or sharing with the class. Even though it has had various climaxes it wasn’t a type of book I liked.
Hello everyone, this is my book report divided into two sections Section A Title: Good Night Mr. Tom Author: Michelle Magorian Summary: As Britain stands on the brink of the Second World War, many young children are sent into the countryside to escape the German bombardment. "Willie" Beech is one of these children. An unhappy, deprived child, he finds kindness and love in the home of curmudgeon Mr. Thomas Oakley, who lives in the village of Little Weirwold. Tom has an affectionate collie dog named Sammy and a mare named Dobbs, kept in a nearby field. The book is set between September 1939 and the spring of 1941. The protagonist, William, is a child who is physically and emotionally abused by his violent, religious mother. He arrives at Tom's house, thinly clad, underfed and covered with painful bruises, and believing he is full of sin, a result of his upbringing by his mother who inflicts severe punishments and uses excuses such as "If you do such a thing, you will go to hell" and "That is a sin." However, Mr. Tom, as Willie calls him, does not punish William as his mother had. Tom shows him an understanding he has not previously experienced. Although Willie wets the bed for some time after moving into the house, Tom merely helps him change the bedding without complaint. Having seen Willie's bruises, and realizing that Will comes from an abusive home, Tom helps the boy through many challenges and gives him a healthy, happy home. Willie is addressed as "William" by Tom and "Willie" by his friends. William Beech is improving and progressing a lot with the help and comfort of Mr. Tom. Willie begins to trust Tom and the world around him. When Willie goes to school he is astonished that the children and teachers love and support him. He forms a small circle of friends among a few of his classmates: Zach, George, Carrie, and Ginnie. He is also fond of one of his teachers, Annie Hartridge. Carrie desperately wants to go to college and bugs her parents about it whenever she can. Her twin sister, Ginnie doesn't understand why she'd want to do this and stays quiet about it. Eventually her parents give up and say they'll let her go. As William is changed by Tom, so is Tom transformed by William's presence in his home. It is revealed that Mr. Tom lost Rachel, his wife, and child to scarlet fever 40 years earlier, and he has become reclusive because of it. The villagers avoided him because of his apparent coldness, however, when William arrives, Mr. Tom immediately demonstrates his kind nature by acquiring good, warm clothing and nourishing food, especially cooked breakfasts and tea. He helps to educate Willie by reading him Bible passages and teaching him to write. Finally Tom overcomes a major personal barrier by entering an art store, something he had previously found difficult, as Rachel, had been a painter. Willie becomes proficient in drawing and dramatics in the village.
The growing bond between the two is upset when Willie's mother requests that the boy return to her in the city, telling him she is sick. At first, William thinks this will be a good thing, so he can be helpful to his mother. However his mother is not pleased to learn the details of his time with Tom. While Willie has been away, she has become pregnant and had a baby, to whom she has been immensely cruel. After a bad reunion she throws William against a bookcase, purposely knocking him out, then ties and gags him and locks him, with the baby, in a cupboard under the stairs. Tom has a premonition that something is not right with Willie. Although he has never travelled beyond his immediate locality, he ventures into London and, with luck, locates Willie's neighborhood and then his home. No-one answers the door when he knocks, but he persuades the local policeman to break down the door. There he finds Willie locked in the closet, holding a small, still bundle: a dead baby girl named Trudy. An empty bottle is at his feet. Willie is malnourished and badly bruised, as he had been locked under the stairs for several weeks after a savage beating. He blames himself for the baby's death and can hardly speak. Willie is shocked to learn that a woman cannot conceive on her own, so his mother was having a relationship with another man (she had previously taught him that such relationships are sin). It is later discovered that she has committed suicide. Willie goes to the hospital, where he is treated awfully and experiences terrible nightmares. The nurse then comes round and drugs him so he'll fall asleep and stop screaming, though he'll wake up a few hours later and the process will be repeated. Tom 'kidnaps' Willie from the hospital and takes him back to Little Weirworld and soon after adopts him. Zach's father is injured by a German bomb and he hurries home on the next train saying farewell to all his friends. Willie later learns that Zach has been killed and is grief-stricken for some time. Carrie, Ginnie and George are also extremely upset. Carrie attempts to stop herself going to college out of grief, but, Willie persuades her otherwise. Eventually, through learning to ride Zach's bike, Will realizes that Zach lives inside him. He remembers Zach fondly and grows.
Main Characters 1. Mr. Tom Mr. Tom is an elderly gentleman who lives in the country of England. He is quiet and keeps to himself. Throughout the novel Mr. Tom changes and becomes a new person. With the outbreak of war he is responsible for the care of a young evacuee, Willie. He and Tom quickly grow to care for each other. Willie is given into Tom's care with only the clothes on his back. Tom talks to Mrs. Henley, a local neighbor, and asks her if she would be kind enough to knit Willie a jersey. She replied, "You ent gotta clothe ‘em" but Mr. Tom was persistent and was able to get Will a new, thick jersey made (18). Tom takes real good care of William and does his best to look after the young child. While Willie is around him, Mr. Tom isn't so deeply depressed about his wife and son, who have both departed. He is more social with the rest of the town and has a more happy expression. When the young evacuee is sent back home Tom worries, when he goes to check on him he finds him in startling health. He even breaks the law to get his frail body back into the country side with him. Mr. Tom is soon Will's adopted father, nearing the end of the novel Will notices something about Tom, He noticed how old and vulnerable Tom looked" (317). 2. Willie Beech He is a young child who is ripped out of his home and put in the care of Mr. Tom? Just as Mr. Tom changed throughout the story, so does Willie. When he arrives at the small cottage he is terrified of Mr. Tom, all of his life he has been beaten and he feared that was common. Mr. Tom first noticed a "large multicolored bruise on the shin and a swollen red sore beside" (5). Willie can't say what he thinks or even answer a person without the fear that his is going to get a strike. When he first gets friends he is worried that he shouldn't have them and that they may be evil. Willie didn't even know how to act around his first friend, Zach. He soon took over some of the traits of this friend; he becomes. I think the major theme in the book is care because Mr. Tom shows love and evection towards Willie there for showing care and love though the book A warning I may give you on this book is that you will cry. Because it is a very sad book to see a boy be so torched to the extent of him getting hit on the head and he pass out he was also locked in a closet so some scenes may seem heartless. I have no more information in which you will like to know about the book 3. Ms Beech She is Willie’s mother; she was really terrible and abusive to her children. The author used her as a comparison character to Mr. Tom. She was the negative influence and non caring person in his life, while Mr. Tom was the positive and caring one in his life. She was cruel to her kids and always hit them. She also used religion as a cover up for all her misdeeds. After Willie returned back from Mr. Tom’s house, she was not really happy because she did not like the way he was turning out positively which was different from her own way of training her kids. She obviously had a psychological problem from her behavior and carried out the frustration on her kids, for example locking them up in a closet that led to the death of her little baby. She ended up committing suicide. Major Theme The main theme in the book Goodnight Mr. Tom shows a huge comparison on how life can be on both sides for one person. There can be so much love, smile, joy, happiness and friendship on one part and the other part can be filled with hunger, pain, misery and hatred. At the end of the day which gives a positive impact and a better life? This was revealed at the end of the book. Goodnight Mister Tom celebrates the value of love and proves that friendship knows no barriers.
Recommendations The book was a very interesting and became more interesting towards the end. Though very touching, but as you read you will want to find out how every character ended up. I also kept wondering through out the book if really a mother could really be like Ms Beech. I recommend that everyone should read the book. Additional Information From February 2011, the Chichester Festival Theatre production of David Wood's stage play adaptation of Goodnight Mister Tom will go on a national tour in the UK.This is coinciding with the celebration of thirtieth year of Goodnight Mister Tom's publication. Some of her other books are a spoonful of jam, cooku in the nest etc. Season’s greetings!!!!
Hi everybody, the book I read this month is called "Good Night Mr. Tom", By: Michelle Megorian.
In the Second World War, many children are sent into the countryside to escape the bombardments. William Beech is one of these children. He is unhappy, timid,shy and weak. He finds kindness and love in the home of Mr Thomas Oakley, who lives in Little Weirwold. Tom has a dog named Sammy. The book is set in World War II.The protagonist William, he is a child who is abused by his violent and religious mother. He arrives at Tom's house, thin,weak and covered with painful bruises. Mr Tom does not punish William as his mother had. Although William wets the bed for some time after moving into the house, Tom helps him in all he does and shows him love and understanding. He realized that William comes from a violent home, Tom helps him through many parts of the book and gives him a healthy, happy home. William begins to trust Tom and the world around him. When William goes to school he is amazed that the children and teachers love and understand him. He has made friends, that are: Zach, George, Carrie, and Ginnie. The villagers avoid him because of his coldness, however, when William arrives, Mr. Tom immediately demonstrates kindness and love to him by buying him warm clothing and preparing him food. He helps William by reading him Bible and teaching him to write. One day Tom was upset when William's mother requests that the boy return to her in the city, telling him she is sick. At first, William thinks this will be a good thing, so he can be helpful to his mother,she is not pleased with him. William has been away, she has become pregnant and had a baby, to whom she has been immensely cruel, the baby was named Trudy and she keeps the baby in a basket with scotch on her mouth. After she throws William against a bookcase, purposely knocking him out, then ties and gags him and locks him, with the baby, in a cupboard under the stairs. He ventures into London and, with luck, locates William's neighbourhood and then his home, he persuades the local policeman to break down the door. He finds William locked in the closet, holding a small, still bundle: a dead baby girl named Trudy. It is later discovered that she has committed suicide. William goes to the hospital and has terrible nightmares. Tom 'kidnaps' William from the hospital and takes him back to Little Weirworld and soon after adopts him. After Tom, William and Zach enjoy a holiday at Salmouth, a small seaside village. They have such a good time and Zach renames the village Salt-on-the-Mouth. Zach's father is injured by a German bomb and he goes home on the next train saying farewell to all his friends. William later learns that Zach has been killed. He is learning to ride Zach's bike, William realises that Zach lives inside him. He remembers Zach and grows.
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The book “Good Night, Mr. Tom” is about a young boy named Willie moved from his house in London to live in the countryside with a complete stranger, Mr. Tom.
Willie was sent to live with Mr. Tom when World War II broke out. At that time, if the parents wanted their child to live in another house for safety reasons, they would send their child to an association who would take of placing them in foster homes until the end of the war.
When Mr. Tom took Willie into his house, he noticed the bruises Willie had all over his body. He found out that William’s mother abused him often. Amongst the ways Willie was abused was by whipping with a belt, which Willie’s mom sent to Mr. Tom, saying that he should use it on Willie when he would misbehave. When Mr. Tom read this in the note accompanying the package, he was furious and told Willie: “I ent ever hit a child and if I ever do, it’ll be with the skin of me hand” (p. 23).
Mr. Tom grew fond of Willie and bought him new clothes, books, paints, and sweets. He also allowed Willie to have an education and to have fun with friends. This was something Willie’s mother never allowed him. He taught Willie how to read, write, and do math qnd sent him to school. There, Willie met a boy called Zach, who became one of his best friends, George, and two twins. Those five children grew a strong friendship. Later, Willie’s mother sent a letter to Mr. Tom, saying she would like Willie to visit her, for a few weeks because she was sick.
Reluctantly, Mr. Tom sent Willie by train to go visit his mother. Willie had plenty of hope that his mother had changed and that she loved him. Sadly, Willie’s mother had not changed a bit. She brought him home saying she had a surprise for him… it was a baby girl, inside a box, with duck tape over her mouth. Willie was shocked. He thought it was really cruel. A few minutes after, Willie’s mother beat him fiercely because he said that one of his friends, Zach, was Jewish. After she locked him and the baby in the closet with a milk bottle and left. Mr. Tom had a nightmare in which Willie was being tortured, so he went to London to look for him. With the help of the policemen, Mr. Tom breaks into Willie’s house. They were able to rescue Willie but the baby had already died of starvation. Willie was brought to the hospital and Mr. Tom adopted him. Later on, Willie and Mr. Tom found out that Willie’s mother had committed suicide.
Everything was going fine until Zach told Willie he had to go visit his father who had been badly injured because of the war. The same night Zach left to visit his dad, Willie had a nightmare of people dyeing. The next day, the news spread that Zach had died from the explosion of a bomb. For a few days Willie was miserable.
In the end of this story, Willie got a play date with a girl he had a crush on and finally smiles again, and lived with Mr. Tom for the rest of his life, happy that he could finally call someone: “Pa”!
Main Characters:
Willie:
Willie lived in London with his abusive single mother. When World War II broke out, his mother decided to shelter him at a foster home in the countryside, with Mr. Tom. Willie is a dynamic character. Throughout the book, Willie, changes a lot. At first, he was really scared of doing everything wrong. He was really quiet, and kept everything to himself. His abusive mother had pushed him into believing frightening and false things like that sleeping in beds was for dead people and that having presents was wrong. While with Mr. Tom, Willie learns to be confident and have pride in him. When Willie goes back to see his mother he becomes insecure and scared again. In the end, when he gets adopted, Willie becomes a happy, and confident boy again.
Mr. Tom was a man in his 50’ s. He was known to be a grumpy, quiet man in his town until he houses Willie. Mr. Tom is a dynamic character too. At first he was grumpy because, due to his life ‘s misfortunes: losing his child and wife. When he houses Willie, he feels affection for the boy who has the same name of the child he had whom had passed away. His wife had died in the moment of childbirth. Mr. Tom changes when he houses Willie because he starts to care for him. He buys Willie clothes, books, sweets, and brings him to school. In the end he becomes like a father to Willie.
Major Themes of the Book:
In my opinion, the major themes in the book are affection and hatred. Affection is represented between Mr. Tom and Willie, Zach and Willie, and, Ginnie and Willie. Hatred appears between Willie and his mother and the war is also a symbol of this.
WARNING:
If you do not enjoy emotional books this is not the book for you! However, if you do, this book will hook after you read within the first few chapters!
Other Interesting Information:
A movie and two musicals were based on this book. A new play by David Wood will also appear in 2011!
The book Good Night Mr Tom is placed during the II World War! It is a very intreging and interesting book that talks about a boy named Willie that hase to escape from his house and go to the countryside. An officer brings him to Mr. Tom's house, and he initially wasm't very inviting. Willie was actually afraid of him! During the novel things start to change..... Willie finally meet his first real friend that is very caring and in wich Willie confides a lot! The name of the boy is Zach and he hase a great pesonality, and in my opinion he grabbes a lot the reader's attention. Mr. Tom and Willie start to have a better relationship with each other, and thry start lo lov and care for each other!! I was very surprised about how positivlly did the atitude of Mr. Tom change, I was very bewildered when I saw that he was actually a very caring person :)But some problems and conflicts grew in the novel, because Zach is not the same religion as wWillie! Anyways they continue to be friends because they really loved eachother!! Then Willies mother calls him and asks him to go back to her because she was sick. when he goes there soo many things happen, he found out that there is a baby that the mother wanted to keep a secret, and then she closed Willie in a clauset etc..... At the end unfortunatelly the mother commits suicide, and I still don't understand why.
I found this book very interesting and it captured my mind so much that in the sad and emotioallchapters I nearly cryied!!
Dear MS Gelso and the classmates Here is my book report in 2 parts
Part I
The book I read was called Good Night Mr. Tom by Michelle Magician . It was published in 1981 and is classified as a historical novel.
Summary
Not everybody had a good time as an evacuee during the Second World War, but for eight-year-old Willie Beech, who left his home in London and came to the country side as an evacuee during the World War II. Willie is dumped on grumpy old Tom Oakley, the sharp-tongued widower, but he soon finds that Mister Tom is fair and friendly. Willie's needs are clear. Willie learns how it feels to have a proper home and friends, and Tom learns to be more loveable and fatherly after his wife and baby son dies. The whole project nearly founders when Willie's mother recalls him to London. Returning home, Willie faces unspeakable horrors and abuse before he is rescued by Tom who comes through an air-raid searching for him. This book is really a gentle and moving story about the developing relationship of trust and love between Willie and Tom. But it also gives a very clear background picture of life in England during the Second World War, the contrast between life in the country and life in London.
The main character in this book is Willie beech, Tom Oakley, Zach and Willie’s mother.
Willie is a poor kid who is physically and mentally abused my mother. As Willie being a dynamic character, in the start of the book Willie seems to be very scared and frightened because of the new environment. He explores a lot of new things around him which he never saw or touched before. Willie changed a lot throughout the story, he express himself very slowly till the end. He learned how to love and take care of others by staying with Mr. Tom in the countryside. Willie got so much from Mr. Tom that he never even saw or experienced from his mother.
Mr. Tom is an old grumpy and rude man who suffers alone all his life without his family (a wife called Rachel and a baby boy called William). When Mr. Tom saw Willie the first time he sounded very aggressively and rude to him, this was because living life alone made his heart as hard as a stone. Later on in the story Mr. Tom changes and becomes move caring and had close ties with Willie which made him adopt Will in the end.
Zach is a character who comes in the story as Willie’s friend. Zach’s personality is very interesting and he seems very passionate about what he wants to in future. Will and Zach develop a great friendship between them because they both never had a friend in life.
Willie’s mother has a very heartless personality because she all the time beats Willie with belt and slaps him until he bleeds. Her character was never specified in the story clearly but because of her actions and cynical personality she loses Willie in the end and Mr. Tom adopts him.
Themes As this story faced a lot of happy, sad and humorous moments it contains a lot of themes. The book shows friendship, love, affection, new experiences, trust respect, hatred, war and betraying
Recommendation
I would definitely recommend this book to people who like reading about wars survivals love, friendship and developing confident.
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Hi everybody, the book I read this month is called "The Witches", By: roald dahl. A grandmother described how witches are to a boy: witches have no hair, and he wear wigs directly on their naked head, witches have thin, curved, claw-like fingernails thats why they wear glove; a witch has unusual color-changing pupils in which one may see in the centre. The boy is warned by his grandmother of the leader of the witches, the Grand High Witch, the ruler of all the witches in the world.The boy then has his first encounter with a witch, when he is playing in his treehouse and sees a strange woman in black staring up at him. When he sees that she is wearing gloves, he becomes afraid; when the witch offers him a snake to entice him, he climbs up the tree which he is in and stays there until his grandmother comes and gets him for supper because he was afraid that she was a witch.When the grandmother later becomes ill, their vacation is postponed. They stay at a luxury hotel, where they discover that the English witches have come to hold their annual meeting. At the annual convention of English witches the Grand High Witch, angry at the witches, she wants to destroy all of the children in England, unveils a master plan wherein the English witches should purchase sweet shops and give away free chocolate with inside a formula with a rat potion, a mixture which will change anyone who eats it into a mouse at a specific time. The witches are instructed by the Grand High Witch that the formula will activate at 9:00 a.m. The boy is hiding in the convention room at the time, training his pet white mice. He recognizes some characteristics described by his grandmother. The Grand High Witch turns an overweight child named Bruno Jenkins into a mouse as a demonstration of her potion. He smelled his presence and transformed him into a mouse and he returns to his grandmother's room and tells her what he has learned. They stole a bottle of the witches' potion and pour it into the witches dinner, the witches all turn into mice within minutes. The hotel staff panic and, unknowingly, end up killing all of England's witches.
Hello Ms Gelso and classmates,
ReplyDeleteThis is the book report written in two parts.
Part I
Title, Author, Genre
The book I read during November, is one of Michelle Magorian’s novels called Good Night, Mr. Tom. It was first published in 1981 and it is a historical novel.
Summary
The plot of this book takes place in 1939, during World War II. William Beech, one of the many evacuees needs to go from the town of London to a small village in the countryside, called Little Weirwold. There, an old and closed to himself man, Tom Oakley, takes little Willie under his care. In the beginning, everyone is nervous and stressed, but both of these two main characters change personality through the story, as events that occur, make them think and act as they have never before. Willie learns a new aspect of life, by doing things for the first time and by making friends. But, from the other hand, Tom has feelings that he hasn’t felt for years, and specifically from his wife and son’s death. The book ends with Mr. Tom Oakley becoming Will’s father, and with Zach’s (Willie’s best friend) death.
Main Characters
In this novel, there are a lot of characters, that each appears in different occasions. But, my opinion is that the main characters are four: Willie, Mr. Tom, Ms Beech (Will’s mum) and finally Zach.
William Beech, is a puny child, physically and mentally abused by his mother. In the first chapters of the book he is curious about the new place and very afraid of Tom. Throughout the story, as a dynamic character, he expresses himself with different ways (as in the closet where he reconsiders many events that happened), he experiments with many new things (as the first time he swims), and he understands that he is really good at drawing. When he is forced to go back to London, he comprehends the meaning of having someone who loves you near you, something that his mother didn’t do all these years. With Zach’s death, he tries to fill the gap in his heart by pretending he is him when he understands that this is illogical.
Tom Oakley, a gray-haired man with a very gruff voice, is a person who stayed alone all these years (with his dog Sammy, too), from the event that shocked his life (his wife and son’s death). When he first takes Willie home, he talks to him aggressively but this is something that happened only in the beginning as later, he buys him new stuff as clothes and tools for his passion, and respects him the same way a parent would do. From the time Will has to return, he feels the loneliness he was feeling thirty years ago, and that’s why he takes the courage to travel the long way to London, save him from his mentally-sick mother and even kidnap him from the people in the hospital who made him have nightmares every day. In the end of the story, he adopts Will.
Zach, is a character that doesn’t appear from the beginning of the novel but he manages to win the readers’ attention with his personality but also Will’s trust and make him his best friend. He is a person with many dreams for the future and he likes to be always with Will. With Willie’s departure, he feels sad and depressed especially when he doesn’t have an answer to the letters he has sent. When Will returns, he is very happy until he learns that his father is very injured and goes to London, where he dies by a bomb.
Lastly, Will’s mother, Ms Beech (her name was never mentioned) plays a very important role when she says to the Billeting Officer that she wants her son to live somewhere where there is a church near. With that, she seems religious something that her actions don’t confirm as she ties Will’s undershirts with underpants and hits him with a belt until blood appears. Also, with the new baby, Trudy, she looks suspicious because she doesn’t tell Will the truth. Finally, when she blames her son of stealing everything and hates Zach that’s not the same religion as they are, Will starts wanting to go back. In the end she commits suicide.
Part II
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This book has many major themes as the ones we mentioned in class. This book wants to show the significance of friendship, hatred, war, loyalty, respect, trust, new experiences and many, many more. That’s why everyone who reads it, feels in the end how quickly time passed.
Recommendations/Warnings
This book is very emotional, especially in the last chapters. That’s why from the time I passed the 15th chapter, I read the rest of the book in 1 day.
Additional Information
Other books of Michelle Magorian except Good Night, Mr. Tom, are the Back Home, Waiting for my Shorts to dry and many more. The latest one that was published in 2008 and is called Just Henry.
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Book report
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Title, Author, Genre
This month we read a realistic fiction book which was written by Michelle Magorian. The name of this interesting book is Good Night Mr. Tom. In this we can see historic facts which are the setting meanwhile the story is fiction created by the author.
Summary
This novel talks about an unfortunate kid who lives with a really mean mom. The kid is named Willie and lives during the 2 world war in England. We can see that an important event happens in his life which is the war. Which obligates kids to go to the countryside. When he goes to the countryside he meets Mr. Tom. Who seems unkind but develops and becomes Willie’s best friend. During this period in the countryside he develops a friendship with a Jew named Zach, he goes to a school , develops friendships with people but sadly understand that his mom treatments weren’t full of love but of hatred. Later Willie has the sad obligation to go back to London. In London his mom attends him, when he arrives he is insulted an d shout at. During this period the mom runs away from home and commits suicide. Finally in the novel we can see that Willie is brought back to the countryside by Tom when he kidnapped him. During his life in the countryside Zach, his sister, his mom die. We can see the love of the teacher towards Willie because after his sister dies because of the mom he lets him play with the little girl
Main characters
Willie- is the main character. He has various conflicts between himself and with society not only even with the mother. His action are majorly affected of fear throughout the full novel. His perspective of life also changes so we can see that he is a static character.
Willie’s mom- is aggressive and never changes there so a dynamic character. She is full of hatred towards her children and treats them with aggressive education and uses a belt to heat young kids.
Tom- is a static character, is affected by his memory’s for one reason that he had a son named Willie who died with his spouse. He is a courageous character and we can see his courage
Zach-his life is affected by his religion, is a great friend to Willie. He is a great static character and is always friendly.
Willie’s sister- has no power to do anything but is killed by the mother even though she was so young. She died in the closet suffocated.
Teacher- Loving and static. She shows her love to Willie when she lets him play with the baby.
Major themes
Fear- one of the most important themes which affects characters throughout the novel. We can see it through Willie at the beginning when he is really scared that Tom discovers the belt inside the bag. He says that Mr. Tom seemed stronger than his mom. As you have noticed he is also scared of his mom.
Friendship- During the novel we can also see a friendly relation which grows between Zach and Willie. Their friendship was the first friendship Willie ever had. We can see how strong the relationship at the end of the book when Zach dies as a normal person he cries but is affected and is always sad for a long period of time.
Love- Love is the last major theme in this book. We can see that the greatest love relationship is built between the main character Willie and Tom. During The novel we can see that Tom kidnaps Willie and brings him back to Little Wierworld. Later we can see a connection of Willie for Tom because Willie was also the name of his son.
Warnings/Recommendation
I honestly found this book a book with high tension but sincerely boring I have read other books which I would definitely preferred reading than this one or sharing with the class. Even though it has had various climaxes it wasn’t a type of book I liked.
Hello everyone, this is my book report divided into two sections
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Title: Good Night Mr. Tom
Author: Michelle Magorian
Summary:
As Britain stands on the brink of the Second World War, many young children are sent into the countryside to escape the German bombardment. "Willie" Beech is one of these children. An unhappy, deprived child, he finds kindness and love in the home of curmudgeon Mr. Thomas Oakley, who lives in the village of Little Weirwold. Tom has an affectionate collie dog named Sammy and a mare named Dobbs, kept in a nearby field. The book is set between September 1939 and the spring of 1941.
The protagonist, William, is a child who is physically and emotionally abused by his violent, religious mother. He arrives at Tom's house, thinly clad, underfed and covered with painful bruises, and believing he is full of sin, a result of his upbringing by his mother who inflicts severe punishments and uses excuses such as "If you do such a thing, you will go to hell" and "That is a sin."
However, Mr. Tom, as Willie calls him, does not punish William as his mother had. Tom shows him an understanding he has not previously experienced. Although Willie wets the bed for some time after moving into the house, Tom merely helps him change the bedding without complaint. Having seen Willie's bruises, and realizing that Will comes from an abusive home, Tom helps the boy through many challenges and gives him a healthy, happy home. Willie is addressed as "William" by Tom and "Willie" by his friends. William Beech is improving and progressing a lot with the help and comfort of Mr. Tom.
Willie begins to trust Tom and the world around him. When Willie goes to school he is astonished that the children and teachers love and support him. He forms a small circle of friends among a few of his classmates: Zach, George, Carrie, and Ginnie. He is also fond of one of his teachers, Annie Hartridge.
Carrie desperately wants to go to college and bugs her parents about it whenever she can. Her twin sister, Ginnie doesn't understand why she'd want to do this and stays quiet about it. Eventually her parents give up and say they'll let her go.
As William is changed by Tom, so is Tom transformed by William's presence in his home. It is revealed that Mr. Tom lost Rachel, his wife, and child to scarlet fever 40 years earlier, and he has become reclusive because of it. The villagers avoided him because of his apparent coldness, however, when William arrives, Mr. Tom immediately demonstrates his kind nature by acquiring good, warm clothing and nourishing food, especially cooked breakfasts and tea. He helps to educate Willie by reading him Bible passages and teaching him to write. Finally Tom overcomes a major personal barrier by entering an art store, something he had previously found difficult, as Rachel, had been a painter. Willie becomes proficient in drawing and dramatics in the village.
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ReplyDeleteThe growing bond between the two is upset when Willie's mother requests that the boy return to her in the city, telling him she is sick. At first, William thinks this will be a good thing, so he can be helpful to his mother. However his mother is not pleased to learn the details of his time with Tom. While Willie has been away, she has become pregnant and had a baby, to whom she has been immensely cruel. After a bad reunion she throws William against a bookcase, purposely knocking him out, then ties and gags him and locks him, with the baby, in a cupboard under the stairs.
Tom has a premonition that something is not right with Willie. Although he has never travelled beyond his immediate locality, he ventures into London and, with luck, locates Willie's neighborhood and then his home. No-one answers the door when he knocks, but he persuades the local policeman to break down the door.
There he finds Willie locked in the closet, holding a small, still bundle: a dead baby girl named Trudy. An empty bottle is at his feet. Willie is malnourished and badly bruised, as he had been locked under the stairs for several weeks after a savage beating. He blames himself for the baby's death and can hardly speak. Willie is shocked to learn that a woman cannot conceive on her own, so his mother was having a relationship with another man (she had previously taught him that such relationships are sin). It is later discovered that she has committed suicide.
Willie goes to the hospital, where he is treated awfully and experiences terrible nightmares. The nurse then comes round and drugs him so he'll fall asleep and stop screaming, though he'll wake up a few hours later and the process will be repeated. Tom 'kidnaps' Willie from the hospital and takes him back to Little Weirworld and soon after adopts him.
Zach's father is injured by a German bomb and he hurries home on the next train saying farewell to all his friends.
Willie later learns that Zach has been killed and is grief-stricken for some time. Carrie, Ginnie and George are also extremely upset. Carrie attempts to stop herself going to college out of grief, but, Willie persuades her otherwise. Eventually, through learning to ride Zach's bike, Will realizes that Zach lives inside him. He remembers Zach fondly and grows.
Section B
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1. Mr. Tom
Mr. Tom is an elderly gentleman who lives in the country of England. He is quiet and keeps to himself. Throughout the novel Mr. Tom changes and becomes a new person. With the outbreak of war he is responsible for the care of a young evacuee, Willie. He and Tom quickly grow to care for each other. Willie is given into Tom's care with only the clothes on his back. Tom talks to Mrs. Henley, a local neighbor, and asks her if she would be kind enough to knit Willie a jersey. She replied, "You ent gotta clothe ‘em" but Mr. Tom was persistent and was able to get Will a new, thick jersey made (18). Tom takes real good care of William and does his best to look after the young child. While Willie is around him, Mr. Tom isn't so deeply depressed about his wife and son, who have both departed. He is more social with the rest of the town and has a more happy expression. When the young evacuee is sent back home Tom worries, when he goes to check on him he finds him in startling health. He even breaks the law to get his frail body back into the country side with him. Mr. Tom is soon Will's adopted father, nearing the end of the novel Will notices something about Tom, He noticed how old and vulnerable Tom looked" (317).
2. Willie Beech
He is a young child who is ripped out of his home and put in the care of Mr. Tom? Just as Mr. Tom changed throughout the story, so does Willie. When he arrives at the small cottage he is terrified of Mr. Tom, all of his life he has been beaten and he feared that was common. Mr. Tom first noticed a "large multicolored bruise on the shin and a swollen red sore beside" (5). Willie can't say what he thinks or even answer a person without the fear that his is going to get a strike. When he first gets friends he is worried that he shouldn't have them and that they may be evil. Willie didn't even know how to act around his first friend, Zach. He soon took over some of the traits of this friend; he becomes.
I think the major theme in the book is care because Mr. Tom shows love and evection towards Willie there for showing care and love though the book
A warning I may give you on this book is that you will cry. Because it is a very sad book to see a boy be so torched to the extent of him getting hit on the head and he pass out he was also locked in a closet so some scenes may seem heartless. I have no more information in which you will like to know about the book
3. Ms Beech
She is Willie’s mother; she was really terrible and abusive to her children. The author used her as a comparison character to Mr. Tom. She was the negative influence and non caring person in his life, while Mr. Tom was the positive and caring one in his life.
She was cruel to her kids and always hit them. She also used religion as a cover up for all her misdeeds. After Willie returned back from Mr. Tom’s house, she was not really happy because she did not like the way he was turning out positively which was different from her own way of training her kids. She obviously had a psychological problem from her behavior and carried out the frustration on her kids, for example locking them up in a closet that led to the death of her little baby. She ended up committing suicide.
Major Theme
The main theme in the book Goodnight Mr. Tom shows a huge comparison on how life can be on both sides for one person. There can be so much love, smile, joy, happiness and friendship on one part and the other part can be filled with hunger, pain, misery and hatred. At the end of the day which gives a positive impact and a better life? This was revealed at the end of the book. Goodnight Mister Tom celebrates the value of love and proves that friendship knows no barriers.
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The book was a very interesting and became more interesting towards the end. Though very touching, but as you read you will want to find out how every character ended up. I also kept wondering through out the book if really a mother could really be like Ms Beech. I recommend that everyone should read the book.
Additional Information
From February 2011, the Chichester Festival Theatre production of David Wood's stage play adaptation of Goodnight Mister Tom will go on a national tour in the UK.This is coinciding with the celebration of thirtieth year of Goodnight Mister Tom's publication. Some of her other books are a spoonful of jam, cooku in the nest etc.
Season’s greetings!!!!
Hi everybody, the book I read this month is called "Good Night Mr. Tom", By: Michelle Megorian.
ReplyDeleteIn the Second World War, many children are sent into the countryside to escape the bombardments. William Beech is one of these children. He is unhappy, timid,shy and weak. He finds kindness and love in the home of Mr Thomas Oakley, who lives in Little Weirwold. Tom has a dog named Sammy. The book is set in World War II.The protagonist William, he is a child who is abused by his violent and religious mother. He arrives at Tom's house, thin,weak and covered with painful bruises. Mr Tom does not punish William as his mother had. Although William wets the bed for some time after moving into the house, Tom helps him in all he does and shows him love and understanding. He realized that William comes from a violent home, Tom helps him through many parts of the book and gives him a healthy, happy home. William begins to trust Tom and the world around him. When William goes to school he is amazed that the children and teachers love and understand him. He has made friends, that are: Zach, George, Carrie, and Ginnie. The villagers avoid him because of his coldness, however, when William arrives, Mr. Tom immediately demonstrates kindness and love to him by buying him warm clothing and preparing him food. He helps William by reading him Bible and teaching him to write. One day Tom was upset when William's mother requests that the boy return to her in the city, telling him she is sick. At first, William thinks this will be a good thing, so he can be helpful to his mother,she is not pleased with him. William has been away, she has become pregnant and had a baby, to whom she has been immensely cruel, the baby was named Trudy and she keeps the baby in a basket with scotch on her mouth. After she throws William against a bookcase, purposely knocking him out, then ties and gags him and locks him, with the baby, in a cupboard under the stairs. He ventures into London and, with luck, locates William's neighbourhood and then his home, he persuades the local policeman to break down the door. He finds William locked in the closet, holding a small, still bundle: a dead baby girl named Trudy. It is later discovered that she has committed suicide. William goes to the hospital and has terrible nightmares. Tom 'kidnaps' William from the hospital and takes him back to Little Weirworld and soon after adopts him. After Tom, William and Zach enjoy a holiday at Salmouth, a small seaside village. They have such a good time and Zach renames the village Salt-on-the-Mouth. Zach's father is injured by a German bomb and he goes home on the next train saying farewell to all his friends. William later learns that Zach has been killed. He is learning to ride Zach's bike, William realises that Zach lives inside him. He remembers Zach and grows.
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Title : Good Night, Mr. Tom
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Genre : Historical Fiction
Summary:
The book “Good Night, Mr. Tom” is about a young boy named Willie moved from his house in London to live in the countryside with a complete stranger, Mr. Tom.
Willie was sent to live with Mr. Tom when World War II broke out. At that time, if the parents wanted their child to live in another house for safety reasons, they would send their child to an association who would take of placing them in foster homes until the end of the war.
When Mr. Tom took Willie into his house, he noticed the bruises Willie had all over his body. He found out that William’s mother abused him often. Amongst the ways Willie was abused was by whipping with a belt, which Willie’s mom sent to Mr. Tom, saying that he should use it on Willie when he would misbehave. When Mr. Tom read this in the note accompanying the package, he was furious and told Willie: “I ent ever hit a child and if I ever do, it’ll be with the skin of me hand” (p. 23).
Mr. Tom grew fond of Willie and bought him new clothes, books, paints, and sweets. He also allowed Willie to have an education and to have fun with friends. This was something Willie’s mother never allowed him. He taught Willie how to read, write, and do math qnd sent him to school. There, Willie met a boy called Zach, who became one of his best friends, George, and two twins. Those five children grew a strong friendship. Later, Willie’s mother sent a letter to Mr. Tom, saying she would like Willie to visit her, for a few weeks because she was sick.
Reluctantly, Mr. Tom sent Willie by train to go visit his mother. Willie had plenty of hope that his mother had changed and that she loved him. Sadly, Willie’s mother had not changed a bit. She brought him home saying she had a surprise for him… it was a baby girl, inside a box, with duck tape over her mouth. Willie was shocked. He thought it was really cruel. A few minutes after, Willie’s mother beat him fiercely because he said that one of his friends, Zach, was Jewish. After she locked him and the baby in the closet with a milk bottle and left. Mr. Tom had a nightmare in which Willie was being tortured, so he went to London to look for him. With the help of the policemen, Mr. Tom breaks into Willie’s house. They were able to rescue Willie but the baby had already died of starvation. Willie was brought to the hospital and Mr. Tom adopted him. Later on, Willie and Mr. Tom found out that Willie’s mother had committed suicide.
Everything was going fine until Zach told Willie he had to go visit his father who had been badly injured because of the war. The same night Zach left to visit his dad, Willie had a nightmare of people dyeing. The next day, the news spread that Zach had died from the explosion of a bomb. For a few days Willie was miserable.
In the end of this story, Willie got a play date with a girl he had a crush on and finally smiles again, and lived with Mr. Tom for the rest of his life, happy that he could finally call someone: “Pa”!
Main Characters:
Willie:
Willie lived in London with his abusive single mother. When World War II broke out, his mother decided to shelter him at a foster home in the countryside, with Mr. Tom. Willie is a dynamic character. Throughout the book, Willie, changes a lot. At first, he was really scared of doing everything wrong. He was really quiet, and kept everything to himself. His abusive mother had pushed him into believing frightening and false things like that sleeping in beds was for dead people and that having presents was wrong. While with Mr. Tom, Willie learns to be confident and have pride in him. When Willie goes back to see his mother he becomes insecure and scared again. In the end, when he gets adopted, Willie becomes a happy, and confident boy again.
Part Two!
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Mr. Tom was a man in his 50’ s. He was known to be a grumpy, quiet man in his town until he houses Willie. Mr. Tom is a dynamic character too. At first he was grumpy because, due to his life ‘s misfortunes: losing his child and wife. When he houses Willie, he feels affection for the boy who has the same name of the child he had whom had passed away. His wife had died in the moment of childbirth. Mr. Tom changes when he houses Willie because he starts to care for him. He buys Willie clothes, books, sweets, and brings him to school. In the end he becomes like a father to Willie.
Major Themes of the Book:
In my opinion, the major themes in the book are affection and hatred.
Affection is represented between Mr. Tom and Willie, Zach and Willie, and, Ginnie and Willie. Hatred appears between Willie and his mother and the war is also a symbol of this.
WARNING:
If you do not enjoy emotional books this is not the book for you! However, if you do, this book will hook after you read within the first few chapters!
Other Interesting Information:
A movie and two musicals were based on this book. A new play by David Wood will also appear in 2011!
The book Good Night Mr Tom is placed during the II World War! It is a very intreging and interesting book that talks about a boy named Willie that hase to escape from his house and go to the countryside. An officer brings him to Mr. Tom's house, and he initially wasm't very inviting. Willie was actually afraid of him!
ReplyDeleteDuring the novel things start to change..... Willie finally meet his first real friend that is very caring and in wich Willie confides a lot! The name of the boy is Zach and he hase a great pesonality, and in my opinion he grabbes a lot the reader's attention. Mr. Tom and Willie start to have a better relationship with each other, and thry start lo lov and care for each other!! I was very surprised about how positivlly did the atitude of Mr. Tom change, I was very bewildered when I saw that he was actually a very caring person :)But some problems and conflicts grew in the novel, because Zach is not the same religion as wWillie! Anyways they continue to be friends because they really loved eachother!! Then Willies mother calls him and asks him to go back to her because she was sick. when he goes there soo many things happen, he found out that there is a baby that the mother wanted to keep a secret, and then she closed Willie in a clauset etc.....
At the end unfortunatelly the mother commits suicide, and I still don't understand why.
I found this book very interesting and it captured my mind so much that in the sad and emotioallchapters I nearly cryied!!
Dear MS Gelso and the classmates
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Part I
The book I read was called Good Night Mr. Tom by Michelle Magician . It was published in 1981 and is classified as a historical novel.
Summary
Not everybody had a good time as an evacuee during the Second World War, but for eight-year-old Willie Beech, who left his home in London and came to the country side as an evacuee during the World War II. Willie is dumped on grumpy old Tom Oakley, the sharp-tongued widower, but he soon finds that Mister Tom is fair and friendly.
Willie's needs are clear. Willie learns how it feels to have a proper home and friends, and Tom learns to be more loveable and fatherly after his wife and baby son dies. The whole project nearly founders when Willie's mother recalls him to London. Returning home, Willie faces unspeakable horrors and abuse before he is rescued by Tom who comes through an air-raid searching for him.
This book is really a gentle and moving story about the developing relationship of trust and love between Willie and Tom. But it also gives a very clear background picture of life in England during the Second World War, the contrast between life in the country and life in London.
Main Characters
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Willie is a poor kid who is physically and mentally abused my mother. As Willie being a dynamic character, in the start of the book Willie seems to be very scared and frightened because of the new environment. He explores a lot of new things around him which he never saw or touched before. Willie changed a lot throughout the story, he express himself very slowly till the end. He learned how to love and take care of others by staying with Mr. Tom in the countryside. Willie got so much from Mr. Tom that he never even saw or experienced from his mother.
Mr. Tom is an old grumpy and rude man who suffers alone all his life without his family (a wife called Rachel and a baby boy called William). When Mr. Tom saw Willie the first time he sounded very aggressively and rude to him, this was because living life alone made his heart as hard as a stone. Later on in the story Mr. Tom changes and becomes move caring and had close ties with Willie which made him adopt Will in the end.
Zach is a character who comes in the story as Willie’s friend. Zach’s personality is very interesting and he seems very passionate about what he wants to in future. Will and Zach develop a great friendship between them because they both never had a friend in life.
Willie’s mother has a very heartless personality because she all the time beats Willie with belt and slaps him until he bleeds. Her character was never specified in the story clearly but because of her actions and cynical personality she loses Willie in the end and Mr. Tom adopts him.
Themes
As this story faced a lot of happy, sad and humorous moments it contains a lot of themes. The book shows friendship, love, affection, new experiences, trust respect, hatred, war and betraying
Recommendation
I would definitely recommend this book to people who like reading about wars survivals love, friendship and developing confident.
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Hi everybody, the book I read this month is called "The Witches", By: roald dahl. A grandmother described how witches are to a boy: witches have no hair, and he wear wigs directly on their naked head, witches have thin, curved, claw-like fingernails thats why they wear glove; a witch has unusual color-changing pupils in which one may see in the centre. The boy is warned by his grandmother of the leader of the witches, the Grand High Witch, the ruler of all the witches in the world.The boy then has his first encounter with a witch, when he is playing in his treehouse and sees a strange woman in black staring up at him. When he sees that she is wearing gloves, he becomes afraid; when the witch offers him a snake to entice him, he climbs up the tree which he is in and stays there until his grandmother comes and gets him for supper because he was afraid that she was a witch.When the grandmother later becomes ill, their vacation is postponed. They stay at a luxury hotel, where they discover that the English witches have come to hold their annual meeting. At the annual convention of English witches the Grand High Witch, angry at the witches, she wants to destroy all of the children in England, unveils a master plan wherein the English witches should purchase sweet shops and give away free chocolate with inside a formula with a rat potion, a mixture which will change anyone who eats it into a mouse at a specific time. The witches are instructed by the Grand High Witch that the formula will activate at 9:00 a.m. The boy is hiding in the convention room at the time, training his pet white mice. He recognizes some characteristics described by his grandmother. The Grand High Witch turns an overweight child named Bruno Jenkins into a mouse as a demonstration of her potion. He smelled his presence and transformed him into a mouse and he returns to his grandmother's room and tells her what he has learned. They stole a bottle of the witches' potion and pour it into the witches dinner, the witches all turn into mice within minutes. The hotel staff panic and, unknowingly, end up killing all of England's witches.
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