It is strange that the final story had nothing to do with war, but with his childhood. It was with his first love and his first death. How when people die, there is a way to make it seem like they are less dead by remembering stories about them. How remembering them makes it seem like they were never gone in the first place. I like the fact that both stories .

It narrates the adventures of a group of young cousins and their friends. Who live in a rural community on. Prince Edward Island , Canada. The book is narrated by Beverley, who together with his brother Felix,. Has come to live with his Aunt Janet and Uncle Alec King on their farm. While their father travels for business. They spend their leisure time with their cousins Dan, Felicity and Cecily King,.

When People told themselves their past with stories,. Explained their present with stories,. Foretold the future with stories,. The best place by the fire was kept for . This was a very unusual spectator for me, and I felt anxious to know who he was. I heard that he was a member of the Polytechnic Institution in Copenhagen, who had been sent out to lecture to the people in the provinces.