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By Michael Morpurgo

ISBN-10: 0007491638

ISBN-13: 9780007491636

A heart-lifting, heartbreaking tale via Michael Morpurgo, the second-biggest children's writer within the united kingdom. within the Imperial warfare Museum is a wood Dachshund, carved by means of a German prisoner of battle for the youngsters of the British relations with which he stayed after the battling ended. this can be the tale of the way it acquired there...When the Bismarck sinks, one of many merely German survivors is taken on board a British send as a prisoner of battle. despatched to stay with a number relations, Walter needs to adapt to a brand new lifestyle, within the center of an enemy kingdom. steadily, although, he unearths a pal in ten-year-old Grace. So while the time eventually involves return to Germany, it's an emotional parting, with Walter leaving Grace with just a carved wood puppy to recollect him by way of. The query is, will Walter and charm ever meet back? In 1966, with the area Cup coming to Britain, that chance may have come alongside.

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119 As these quotations make clear, most of Warner's early readers accepted her representation (and validation) of the age's conception of ideal womanhood; the North American Review's admiration for heroines who' are conscious of having a power and place in the world, and ... claim it without assumption or affectation, and fill it with a quiet self-respect, not inconsistent with modesty and due humility,"? for instance, voices approval for the essentialist and separatist view of female roles which the novel seems to endorse.

It is only with the introduction of the school story in the form pioneered by Brazil that family is replaced in English fiction for girls by the notion of an independent female community within which female adolescence can find scope for redefinition. Instead of being located within a familial context, American girls are encouraged to define their selfhood through a strong sense of patriotism and national identity. American national characteristics, including a more developed spirit of independence, are seen to affect models of girlhood that challenge the more rigid standards of conduct prevailing for their English counterparts.

There is of course a danger in predicating the extent to which women in particular reproduce autobiographical narratives in their fictions, what Mary Jacobus terms the 'autobiographical "phallacy" - whereby male critics hold that women's writing is somehow closer to experience than men's, that the female text is the author, or at any rate a dramatic extension of her unconsciousness/'" At the same time, theorists of women's autobiography have been keen to emphasize 'the many distancing devices by which a woman writer weaves her strategy of self-representation" into texts that appear on the surface to conform to regulated modes of female discourse.

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