Then (Once/Now/Then/After)

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Something that I learned from this book was how badly the Germans treated the Jews and how miserable and hard their lives must have been during the Holocaust during World War 2. Zelda's parents, although were Nazi loyalists, were shot dead and tried to burn the house down to kill Zelda. He sheds to tears because he knew he had to do everything to protect her so she can finally see her parents (heartbreaking. This quote stands out to me because it teaches me that if you believe in something and hope and persevere that it counts for a lot and will lead you to achieving your goals.

Then focuses more on how the two are travelling across Poland trying to find their parents (atleast Felix's) who they believe are at a death camp.Photograph: Reuters Catherine Ashton, centre, with US secretary of state John Kerry and Iranian foreign minister Javad Zarif at talks in Vienna in 2014. These moments provide necessary light moods in a book that shows the maturity of the children who are not even teens yet from being innocent young kids to hunted by an entire army: It seems there is no possible way for a happy ending for Felix. When they emerge from it, the first thing they see is a large pit in the ground full of the bodies of children and Nazis with machine guns standing around it. But had a Jewish couple knocked on the doors, begging for protection for themselves and their children, they would have received very different responses. I decided to read the book "Then" by Morris Gleitzman because I had read the first book in the series "Once" at Intermediate School and really enjoyed it.

So I am interested to see what happens in the next book and whether it will be the end to Felix's story. Posing as one of the guests, he had with Dr Armstrong's naive assistance faked his own death by gunshot on the pretext that it would help the group identify the killer.Its about Felix and the other characters in the time period world war two, struggling to live avoiding Naxis, it is more difficult for Felix because he is jewish and has the sign that he is a jew. Speaking of the "widely known" 1945 film, Stein added that "we’re merely faced with fantastic amounts of violence, and a rhyme so macabre and distressing one doesn't hear it now outside of the Agatha Christie context.