It was fun to read a war story about an old man and children. Anna is a German girl.ĩ Narrator: It is written in a sort of I perspective.ġ0 I liked the book. Ronnie and Sheila are English Children living in Switzerland. Howard, as narrator, relates the story of the book to another member, at his club, while the two of them sit in easy chairs at the fire, drinking port, during an early war bombing raid of London. The children: Their names are Ronnie, Sheila, Pierre, Rose, Willem, Marjan en Anna. The Pied Piper, in Nevil Shutes book of the same name, is a rather quiet septuagenarian by the name of John Sidney Howard. The most common theme in Shutes novels is the dignity of work, spanning.

It’s where I started reading him when I was a child. She helps him and accompanies him on the last part of his journey. Many of the stories are introduced by a narrator who is not a character in the story. Pied Piper doesn’t have any of these problems, and it’s pretty much the ideal place to start reading Shute. He brings the children safely to England and sends them to his daughter in America. He goes to France to find rest when he hears that news. He has a daughter living in America and a son in the RAF. Quotation: 'Howard settled down at Cidoton quite confortably.' (p.21 l.2) Quotation: 'He left London on the morning of April the 10th, the very morning that the news came through that Germany had invaded Denmark and Norway.' (p.17 l.8-10) They let him go to England if he promises to take a German child and he accepts.ĥa The story plays short before and in the Second World War. At the end he is captured by the Germans. A young French girl accompanies him at the last part of the journey. He was married and had a wife and two daughters.Ĥ A 70 years old Englishman tries to get back from France to England when the Germans invade France. His first novel was 'So Disdained' in 1926.

He got his writing talent from his parents. De taal ervan is Engels en het aantal woorden bedraagt 449 woorden.ī explain the title: The title refers to the main character, Howard, because he looks pied at the end of the story and piper because he makes whistles for the children.ģ Nevil Shute Norway was born in 1899 and died in 1960.

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