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"Relief washes all over us,  kids and grown-ups alike, like a rain shower."

The City of Benares gets 600 miles out of London and everyone is excited because they think they have finally made it to safety.

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"While the doctors aren't looking, sickness sneaks aboard.."

While on the ship, many of the kids catch the chicken pox! Bad news a ship because illness is easy to catch since everyone is so close together.

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" I stand up to try and comfort them but the ship tilts and wham! I slam into the bedpost. Owww!"

Kenneth attempts to comfort the younger boys as the boat rocks back and forth. All the boys are seasick and scared!

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"breathing in the smells of soot, salt, seaweed, and steam.."

Kenneth and the other kids finally arrive at the dock and are about to aboard the ship to freedom.

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"I fall down, down, down into the story..."

Kenneth finally feels safe for a moment from the terror of the war as he listens to Mary tell them a story.

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"I feel like a thief, stealing away, making off with my life."

Kenneth feels guilty leaving his family behind being bombed while he gets to escape to Canada on the City of Benares.

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"Memories slide through my head-"

Kenneth is remembering all the events of his youth while he leaves them behind on the train to the boat.

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"Then come the explosions- BOOM! BOOM!"

Kenneth is describing the German attack on London in the middle of the night with bombings from airplanes.

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"People are swimming and sinking, slamming into boats, rafts....slipping and surfacing, sliding and oh sucked under.."

This figurative language is being used to describe the scene of the sinking City of Benares. It was chaos!

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"cresting, crashing, smashing."

This figurative language is describing the waves hitting Kenneth's lifeboat after the City of Benares had been hit by a torpedo.

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"Bam!"

Kenneth uses this word to describe the noise the bombs are making as the hit the ground in London.

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"...the fresh breeze blows all my troubles behind me like the black smoke billowing back from the stacks."

Kenneth is comparing leaving on the boat to escape the war and his problems to the black smoke escaping the stacks of the City of Benares.

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"I feel like a wind-up toy whose key has been twisted and tightened for too long, and they're finally letting go!"

Kenneth is finally leaving to Canada on the City of Benares to escape the war. He has been waiting for so long and the day is finally here!