Stay Where You Are And Then Leave

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It's a big world, isn't it?' said Georgie. 'Do you think they hate each other on other planets too?” I don't read children's literature much these days but this book, Stay Where You Are and Then Leave by John Boyne caught my eye. I loved John Boyne's adult novel about the Great War, The Absolutist and I was curious about how he would handle this subject in a book especially for children. As it turns out, John Boyne has written an honest but sensitive book about what it was like to be a child during World War I. the story is told from the point of view of Alfie who is 9. His father went to war and never returned and he can't quite fathom what happened to him because his father insist he isn't dead. Alfie helps out his mother by working as a shoe shine a few days a week and whilst doing that he finds a clue as to where his father might be and decides to investigate further. Realmente me gustó mucho los temas que toca y como el autor lo lleva. Si bien es una historia súper dura y cruda, tiene un mensaje muy lindo. Así que te lo super recomiendo! Pluma del autor súper sencilla y adictiva. Jamás deja que la historia caiga, es super atrapante. Otra cosa positiva que tiene es que no está cargada de descripciones y tiene bastantes diálogos.

John Boyne (born 30 April 1971) is an Irish novelist. [1] He is the author of fourteen novels for adults, six novels for younger readers, two novellas and one collection of short stories. His novels are published in over 50 languages. His 2006 novel The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas was adapted into a 2008 film of the same name. I am currently reading this book and I have to say I am a very keen reader and this doesn't have me gripped! I am sorry to say this but I will look further into John Boynes books. Boyne is gay, and has spoken about the difficulties he encountered growing up gay in Catholic Ireland. [7] [8] [9] He has spoken of suffering abuse in Terenure College as a student there. [10] Quedense en la trinchera y luego corran de John Bonyne es una novela súper conmovedora y llena de reflexiones. Başbakan başını sallayıp bir süre sessiz kaldı. "Janâček dedin değil mi? Avusturyalı mıydılar? Yoksa Polonyalı mı?"During the war times were tough. Alfie’s mother, Margie Summerfield, had to have multiple jobs to try and sustain their family and it still wasn't enough. It was that bad that Alfie secretly got a job too. On certain days he skipped school and went down to King’s Cross to shine shoes, Alfie said he was just doing his part. Alfie put most of his earnings in this mother's wallet, only keeping some to himself just in case of an emergency. Margie tried to explain to Alfie the reason why his father stopped writing to them. She told him that Georgie was on a “secret mission for the government.” Alfie didn't believe her. He even thought his dad might be dead and that she doesn't want to tell him. I'm nine," said Alfie for the second time. "Well, you'll be ten soon enough, I imagine. Nine year-old boys usually turn ten at some point. It's the nineteen-year-olds who have difficulty turning twenty." (122) The story moves forward four years and Alfie is 9 years-old. Despite the constant assurances that the war would be "over by Christmas" (but WHICH Christmas?), the war drags on. Georgie is still away from his family; Margie has been forced to take a job working long hours as a nurse and Alfie has taken the idea that he is the man of the house seriously and has set up a shoe shine stand in King's Cross Station, secretly giving most of what he earned to his mother. There is a new air of maturity around Alfie and although he is not as joyous as he had been, there are still glimpses of his ever-present inquisitiveness.

Four years later, something awful happens to Alfie’s father, but nobody will tell him what. The story is that he’s on a secret mission, but Alfie doesn’t believe it. By chance, whilst shining shoes at King’s Cross station, he discovers that his father is in hospital near Ipswich. What is the matter with him? What Alfie discovers is both frightening and heartbreaking. But how can he rescue his father away from this terrible place?The story of young Alfie, 9 years old, who lives in England at the start of WWI. His father volunteers for military service. Four years later Alfie is still yearning for his fathers return. Between "borrowing" a shoeshine box, secret journeys on the train, secret trips to a hospital, and putting an escapee plan into practice, Alfie feels he has done the worst thing possible. Me chocó un poco leer lo crudo la vida de los soldados dentro de la guerra y fuera. John lo hace una forma sutil pero, no obstante, sigue siendo chocante. Cuenta el sufrimiento de los soldados, las familias, las personas que no quisieron ir a la guerra y aquellos que fueron desterrados por haber nacido en el país enemigo. Readers' impressions on this book will largely vary based on their feelings toward our main character, Alfie. While I admired his strength and determination, his character paled in comparison to Bruno's character from The Boy With The Striped Pajamas. I really wanted to fall for Alfie's character, but I felt like much of his story was intentionally written to pull on readers' heartstrings. His story felt a bit forced at times and I didn't realize feel a cavalcade of emotion like I felt I should've. I truly can't read a book and feel touched enough to cry when I feel like the author merely inserts sentimental moments just so readers will shed tears.

I think this is an important book, especially this year for the 100th anniversary of the start of the First World War, and if you are looking for a book to find out a bit more about the war and the people who had to live through it, then I strongly recommend this one. Four years later, Alfie doesn't know where his father might be, other than that he's away on a special, secret mission. Boyne, John (19 July 2017). " At Swim, Two Boys Is a Great Irish Novel, a Gay Love Story but So Much More". The Irish Times . Retrieved 1 February 2019. As a young gay man behind a bookshop counter, I watched the people who bought At Swim, Two Boys—and there were a lot of them—and used it as a tool for flirtation. A reprint of John Boyne's introduction to At Swim, Two Boys by Jamie O'Neill. The day the Great War broke out, a great anxiety and stress spread across Damley Road. Alfie had heard talk about a war, but hadn't realised exactly what was going on until a few days after he turned five, when his father Georgie walked into their house wearing a khaki-coloured uniform. And it was then that Granny Summerfield had declared that they were finished, they were all finished. Then, while shining shoes at King's Cross Station, Alfie unexpectedly sees his father's name - on a sheaf of papers belonging to a military doctor. Bewildered and confused, Alfie realises his father is in a hospital close by - a hospital treating soldiers with an unusual condition. Alfie is determined to rescue his father from this strange, unnerving place.While Alfie was trying to find a way out he was lead to a beautiful garden, where there was a group of men in wheelchairs. After being talked to by one of the men from the wheelchair, Alfie was desperate to get out of there. Alfie finally saw the exit and ran. As he went past, he glanced at one of the man and immediately recognized him. It was his father, Georgie Summerfield. Alfie went up to his father and sadly, at first he didn't recognize him. The next day while Alfie was working he discovered that Margie knew that his father was at the hospital since she got on a train to go to the hospital. This book looks at these, and other issues that affected people thrown into being at war, economically, physically, mentally, and morally, through the eyes of a child, a young boy who stole my heart as I read about his bravery and determination, and his quest to try to set things right.

Nine-year-old boys usually turn ten at some point. It's the nineteen-year-olds who have difficulty turning twenty.” It's no coincidence that when Alfie's father in Stay Where You Are And Then Leave writes increasingly incoherent letters to his son, these letters remain in the boy's possession even as he's sharing a train carriage to the military hospital with Marian Bancroft, Will's sister from the earlier book, whose own letters from her brother display a developing ambivalence to the motives and manner in which the war is being pursued.

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The atmospherical writing style certainly makes me want to discover more of this well known author whose work I'd never read before. The day the First World War broke out, Alfie Summerfield's father promised he wouldn't go away to fight - but he broke that promise the following day. To 2014 λόγω της επετείου των 100 χρόνων από τον πρώτο παγκόσμιο πόλεμο, πολλά βιβλία κυκλοφόρησαν σχετικά με αυτό το θέμα.Ένα από αυτά είναι και το «Μείνε εκεί που είσαι και μετά φύγε» που από τη πρώτη στιγμή μου κίνησε το ενδιαφέρον όχι μόνο λόγω της περίληψης αλλά και του πολύ όμορφου εξωφύλλου.