Novel study.

For novel study, I read the book I Am David. It was a really good book. We had to write a short paragraph for each chapter. These are mine.

Chapter one summary.
David starts off in the concentration camp. He was wondering whether he should escape as he was told to by “him”, the prison guard that he must escape that night. He didn’t trust him but he decides to try to escape anyway. He got over the border and started running. He looked behind him and realised no one was following him. He found a bundle put there by “him”. He jumped into a truck while he was not being watched.

Chapter two summary.
He needed to reach Italy by boat. He found one with Italy painted on the stern. He climbed into it and quickly hid. He was found and then he jumped out and swam to shore early in the morning. David sat there for a long time and watched everything around him as he had never seen so much colour. With the soap he was given, he completely cleaned himself and then continued walking. He looked around for a bit. He found a baker and got some bread off him. He continued to do this for a while until he heard some people talking about him.

Chapter three summary.
David was scared at first because he had been travelling through the night and when he woke up, he thought that he had been travelling the wrong way. He quickly recollected himself and continued moving. He started to think about God and then thought of who his God would be. He sat down and started praying to his God of green pastures and still waters. He found some American tourists and David started talking to them. After David left, he found a truck driver and he was offered a ride. He finally found out that not all nice people are very smart as Angelo the truck driver was nice but not very bright.

Chapter four summary.
David has never seen a forest before. He decided that he liked the fact that he could hide easily, but that meant that “they” could as well. David continued walking and came across a boy who looked older than him. The boy started punching him and called David a coward when he didn’t fight back. He went away and David washed his clothes to rid himself completely of the boy. He came across two young boys and an older girl who looked about Davids age playing. The girl got stuck in a fire and David saved her. He met her whole family and they decided that he could stay with them for a while.

Chapter five summary.
David loved living in the house and he tried to learn everything about it while he lived there. He found it hard trying to act “normal” and he found that some of the things the two little boys and the girl Maria did funny. The boy who beat him up was Maria’s older brother, Carlo. He apologized but David still hated him. He overheard there parents talking about him and he decided that he should leave. Maria said goodbye to him and he left.

Chapter six summary.
David tramped on. He found a church and decided to go in. He found a priest and started talking to him as he decided that he must be good. David was in Switzerland and he found a woman. He started talking to the women and decided that he liked her. She invited him to have dinner at her house. The woman, who was called Sophie Hartmann told David of another David she new who apparently died as a baby. That baby and his mother and father were caught by police and put in a concentration camp. Apparently, the father and the baby died, but the mother escaped because one of the guards was in love with her.

Chapter seven summary.
The weather was very cold now and it was snowing. David got a lift to a place called Faido. He was determined to reach Denmark. David now knew that the mother was Davids mother and the guard had actually kept David alive but didn’t tell Davids mother. Davids feet and mind had grown so numb that he nearly let himself walk over a small cliff by accident. David came across a man and new he was one of “them”. David had been captured by a man who made him work as his slave. David hated his whole family but didn’t actually mind staying there too much. He slept in the stable and he made friends with there dog. He escaped before the farmer handed him over to the police and the dog came with him. He had finally escaped and was on his way.

Chapter eight summary.
He was in Switzerland but he couldn’t use the money he had. He wrote a letter to Carlo saying that he forgave him. He found a man named Graf and he gave David and the dog, King some food. When he was only a few days from Denmark, David found a group of “them”. The dog, King, knew that the people were dangerous and attacked them so David could get away, but King was sadly shot. He got a ride from a man who stowed him in the back of his truck as soon as he reached Denmark. He found the address of his mother and he was given a ride there by another woman. He walked up to the house and finally found his mother.