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Potato slices, crispy and fragrant. And toast glistening with what looks like actual creamy butter. And three fried eggs. That’s more eggs than I’ve had on the same plate ever in my life,The leader gives me another hard stare. He’s not very old, but he’s going bald. His wispy pale hair looks like it’s trying to get as far away as it can from his angry face.
Then is an amazing written book told by Morris Gleitzman which is a fictional book about two young kids trying to survive in Poland during World War 2 The book starts up where the first book ended with the characters zelda and felix. Felix had a plan for herself and Zelda so they pretended to be someone else and they got different identities and their mission was to find new parents and be safe forever until one day the Nazis came.
Ten-year-old Felix and her unlikely companion, Zelda, the daughter of Nazis whom Felix rescued in horrendous circumstances, have managed to escape from a train heading to a concentration camp. Having already experienced many unbelievable atrocities in their short lives, they set off together in this new country in search of new identities, a new family and, ultimately, safety. But the Poland into which they walk is anything but safe. They are immediately confronted by a mass grave of Jewish orphans, after which they need to hide in order to escape discovery and certain death themselves. At every turn they are confronted by danger and potential enemies.
Their luck begins to change when they are taken in by Genia, a local farmer whose husband has been taken away to work by the Nazis. In spite of the potential risk to her own life, Genia not only provides the children with shelter and new identities, but perhaps most importantly, with their much longed for family. Adopting the personas of Wilhelm and Violetta. the children pose as good, Jew- hating Polish children. But in this climate, danger is never far away and the children are again forced to confront many chilling inhumane behaviors and events.
In the book a quote that felix used to describe zelda and the storline better was A little hope goes a long way.” “He can do it any time he wants,’ says Zelda, hugging me from the other side. ‘Any time he sees a Nazi, he can just do a poo. In the book filixs character has a beautiful sense of humor, constant faith, love for others and his powerful storytelling ability makes this powerful and atrocious story compelling and fascinating reading. Just as Felix uses stories as a kind of therapy to help himself and others make sense of the world around him, Morris Gleitzman says This story is my imagination trying to grasp .
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