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My Long Journey

My life began in Kenya at a certain year. Years passed and I was admitted at school. Year and year passed as I was growing and gaining more knowledge about the world. Life was not that easy and I had to study hard no matter what happened because I was certain that my hardworking will not go for granted.
After a number of years I found  myself at the last year of primary school, obviously preparing for the last test at primary school, which I consider the beginning of my destiny.
In the year’s progress I heard about a certain new school, which have never heard about before, Mpesa-Foundation Academy. This was from a classmate of mine who told me more about the school, and there was also a certain girl named Risper who was the first one to get the Academy’s scholarship from my primary school. My dream school was Light Academy, only until I got more knowledge on Mpesa-Foundation Academy, the transformation of leaders through Innovation approaches to learning.
I applied for the Academy with my hopes up and waited for the results as I prepared for my last primary school examination. Days passed and I was called to the interview whereby I tried my best in order to succeed.
I prayed to God hard to help me get the scholarship and to help with the national examination too. KCPE wasn’t that bad and before I knew it I had a home visit from the academy’s, Staff who are now my parent’s at the academy. I was super happy and my dream of joining the transformation academy grew stronger and I became more hopeful.
A few weeks later I received the application form to the academy which made me more than happy. Honestly I can’t even explain my joy because if I did, I guess I’d be lying 😂😊. It was simply unexplainable. When I remember that day I tend to smile alone non-stop.
On January 13th I began my journey to the academy very early. I couldn’t wait to land my foot in my new school. I knew it was a new beginning to me, one that will contribute the most in shaping my life.
My new life as a Thinker, Doer and Leader began quite well and we were introduced to a new curriculum, IB, whereby afterwards, covid came and struck our country. This led to closure of all schools.
However, this didn’t make the academy leave behind. We were issued with online materials and we had the chance to study at home.
After covid 19’s flame starting decreasing we backed to school and here I am living well and good in the academy, studying IB. I therefore thank God for all the courage he has given me and the power to overcome temptations and I believe he will guide my life at the academy non-stop.

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Morris Gleitzman grew up in England and to live in Australia when he was sixteen.He worked as a
frozen-chicken thawer,
sugarmill rolling-stock unhooker,
fashio-industry trainee,
department-store S anta,
Tv producer,
newspaper columnist and screenwriter.

Then he had a wonderful  experience.

He wrote a novel for young people.

Now he’s one of the bestselling children’s authors in Australia.

His many books include;

1.  The Other Facts of Life

2. Second Childhood

3. Two Weeks with the Queen

4. Misery Guts

5. Worry Warts

6. Puppy Fat Blabber Mouth

7. Sticky Beak Gift of the Gab

8. Belly Flop

9. Water Wings

10. Wicked! (with Paul Jennings)

11. Deadly! (with Paul Jennings)

12. Bumface

13. Adults Only

14. Teacher's Pet

15. Toad Rage

16. Toad Heaven

17. Toad Away

18. Toad Surprise

19. Boy Overboard

20.  Girl Underground

21. Worm Story

22. Aristotle's Nostril

23. Doubting Thomas

24.  Give Peas a Chance

25. Once

26. Then

27. Now

Themes explored

1. Hope - 𝚃𝚑𝚎  𝚖𝚊𝚒𝚗 𝚌𝚑𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚌𝚝𝚎𝚛, 𝙵𝚎𝚕𝚒𝚡, 𝚛𝚊𝚛𝚎𝚕𝚢 𝚕𝚘𝚘𝚜𝚎𝚜 𝚑𝚘𝚙𝚎 𝚝𝚑𝚊𝚝 𝚝𝚒𝚗𝚐𝚜 𝚠𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚒𝚖𝚙𝚛𝚘𝚟𝚎 𝚘𝚛 𝚝𝚞𝚛𝚗 𝚘𝚞𝚝 𝚠𝚎𝚕𝚕. 𝙷𝚎'𝚜 𝚊𝚕𝚠𝚊𝚢𝚜 𝚖𝚘𝚛𝚎 𝚝𝚑𝚊𝚗 𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚍𝚢 𝚝𝚘 𝚖𝚊𝚔𝚎 𝚊 𝚗𝚎𝚠 𝚖𝚘𝚟𝚎 𝚠𝚑𝚎𝚗𝚎𝚟𝚎𝚛 𝚗𝚎𝚌𝚎𝚜𝚜𝚊𝚛𝚢

2. Sacrifice - 𝙵𝚎𝚕𝚒𝚡 𝚒𝚜 𝚊𝚕𝚠𝚊𝚢𝚜 𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚍𝚢 𝚝𝚘 𝚑𝚎𝚕𝚙 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚊𝚕𝚠𝚊𝚢𝚜 𝚙𝚞𝚝𝚜 𝚘𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚛𝚜      𝚋𝚎𝚏𝚘𝚛𝚎 𝚑𝚒𝚖 𝚒𝚗 𝚊𝚕𝚕 𝚜𝚒𝚝𝚞𝚊𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗𝚜, 𝚠𝚑𝚊𝚝𝚎𝚟𝚎𝚛 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚌𝚘𝚗𝚜𝚎𝚚𝚞𝚎𝚗𝚌𝚎𝚜

3. Strong, Powerful, Imagination - 𝙵𝚎𝚕𝚒𝚡 𝚒𝚖𝚊𝚐𝚒𝚗𝚎𝚜 𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚗𝚐𝚜 𝚝𝚑𝚊𝚝 𝚐𝚒𝚟𝚎 𝚑𝚒𝚖 𝚑𝚘𝚙𝚎 𝚕𝚒𝚔𝚎 𝚗𝚘 𝚘𝚗𝚎 𝚎𝚕𝚜𝚎. 𝙷𝚒𝚜 𝚒𝚖𝚊𝚐𝚒𝚗𝚊𝚛𝚒𝚘𝚗 𝚐𝚒𝚟𝚎𝚜 𝚑𝚒𝚖 𝚑𝚘𝚙𝚎 𝚝𝚘𝚐𝚎𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚛 𝚠𝚒𝚝𝚑 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚙𝚎𝚘𝚙𝚕𝚎 𝚊𝚛𝚘𝗎𝚗𝚍 𝚑𝚒𝚖.

4. Friendship - 𝙵𝚎𝚕𝚒𝚡 𝚒𝚜 𝚘𝚏𝚝𝚎𝚗 𝚏𝚛𝚒𝚎𝚗𝚍𝚜 𝚠𝚒𝚝𝚑 𝚎𝚟𝚛𝚢𝚘𝚗𝚎 𝚎𝚡𝚌𝚎𝚙𝚝 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚋𝚞𝚕𝚕𝚒𝚎𝚜. 𝙷𝚎'𝚜 𝚏𝚛𝚒𝚎𝚗𝚍𝚜𝚑𝚒𝚙 𝚠𝚒𝚝𝚑 𝚉𝚎𝚕𝚍𝚊 𝚜𝚞𝚜𝚝𝚊𝚒𝚗𝚜 𝚑𝚒𝚖.

5. Resilience - 𝙵𝚎𝚕𝚒𝚡 𝚜𝚘𝚖𝚎𝚝𝚒𝚖𝚎𝚜 𝚏𝚒𝚗𝚍𝚜 𝚑𝚒𝚖𝚜𝚎𝚕𝚏 𝚒𝚗 𝚠𝚘𝚛𝚜𝚝 𝚒𝚖𝚊𝚐𝚒𝚗𝚊𝚋𝚕𝚎 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚞𝚗𝚒𝚖𝚊𝚐𝚒𝚗𝚊𝚋𝚕𝚎 𝚜𝚒𝚝𝚞𝚊𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗𝚜 𝚋𝚞𝚝 𝚑𝚎 𝚜𝚝𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚜𝚝𝚛𝚒𝚔𝚎𝚜 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚌𝚘𝚗𝚝𝚒𝚗𝚞𝚎𝚜 𝚝𝚘 𝚜𝚞𝚛𝚟𝚒𝚟𝚎.

Major characters of Once and their traits.

1. Felix Salinger.

Felix is the main character and also the narrater. He’s a ten years old boy who lives in an orphanage at the mountains of Poland.

He’s fond of using his imagination at all times and he’s also a creative story writer.

2.  Dodie.

Dodie is Felix’ best friend who he protects so much at the orphanage.

3.  Jankiel.

Jankel is another new friend of Felix who came at the orphanage recently, and Felix thinks or rather suspects he’s a Jewish like him.

Felix protected this boy from the torture squad once before he left the orphanage.

4. Zelda.

Zelda is a six years old girl who Felix saved from a burning house.

Her parents were lying down dead and so Felix went with her.

She likes listening to Felix’ stories and believes everything he says.

5. Barney.

Barney is a kind old guy who keeps other Jewish children or rather protects them from the Nazis.

He takes care of Felix, Zelda and some other children in a cellar.

He’s a.ways willing to give up his life for the kids who for some he doesn’t even know.

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Once Felix was living in an orphanage in Poland and he says he shouldn’t have been.

He almost caused a riot at the orphanage because of finding a whole carrot in his soup, but luckily Mother Minka, who’s like the parents of all the orphans makes up something to draw the other kid’s attention.

It was a miracle for Felix to find a whole carrot in his soup because no one else has ever.

He thought that the carrot was. a symbol that his parents were coming for him.

His parents had left him at the orphanage three years and eight months ago in order to protect him from the Nazis.

Felix thinks that they left him there so that they can go and work on their ‘Jewish book selling issue’ and then come back for him. This made Felix patient and believing that after his parents solve the issue, they’ll come back for him

Dodie is a friend he loves so much and one day he trys to make him happy by asking mother Minka to give him a bath as the first one.

The bathroom at the orphanage is awful since every orphan is bathed inside the same water. This makes Felix remember the happy moments where his mum bathes him.

However, Felix is often afraid of what will happen if his friends find out that he’s got parents and hasn’t told them. He thinks they’ll all hate him.

Chapter 2.

Felix waits for his mum and dad all nihht but they won’t come. He thinks they’ll be there once it’s daylight.

Felix is patient though he thinks that his parents won’t recognize him from all the changes that have taken place in his body.

He therefore gives himself hope by recalling that his parents told him they will never forget him, furthermore he has the notebook and he tells himself that it will give them some memories of him.

A truck arrives and Felix thinks it’s his parents.He’s so excited and is looking up the window in order to get a clear look..

Everything about the car is strange and he suddenly gets bored after seeing that it’s a bunch of men in suits with armbands.

Suddenly Dodie comes urgently grabbing Felix and warning him that is hiding in the toilet from the torture squad. Felix sighs because Jankiel has been there for only two weeks and he’s nervous of strangers.

Felix hurriedly runs to the scene. It’s Marek, Telek, Adok and Bory’s, the torture squad.

Jankiel pleads with them. Felix interrupts by making up a story that ends all the torture from the squad. Jankiel is very greatful for Felix saving saving him and he tells him the story he made up was intresting.

As they’re speaking, Jankiel oftenly peers down at the courtyard and asks if they have gone(the Nazis)

Jankiel starts to look a bit nervous and this leaves Felix wondering if Jankiel has got secret alive parents too. He also wonders if Jankiel is Jewish.

Felix can see that in the courtyard Mother Minka is having an argument with the men. He then sees that the men are burnings something and he becomes surprised after finding out.

Chapter three.

Felix wonders why the main are so bad and hurting books cruelly and laughing about it. He thinks that Mother Minka is so upset because she hasn’t given them permission to do that.

Felix suddenly meets a librarian and the librarian stares at him.  Felix tells him that the book he’s s holding is not Jewish, it’s he’s notebook.

Mother Mink tells Felix she doesn’t know how the Nazis knew she had Jewish books and she also tells Felix not to worry because they don know he’s Jewish.

Felix then asks Mother Minka about the carrot and he’s told they didn’t send it, it was Sister Elwira who put the carrot in his soup. Felix becomes sad and shouts at Mothe Minka but she doesn’t get upset or angry.

Mother Minka then tells him that his parents are not coming and that they can only pray.

Felix says to himself that he has to look for his parents himself. He meets Dodie and gives him his books, except the his notebook, and promises him he’ll be back with more carrots and turnips.

He waits until everyone is gone to breakfast then he starts the escape and writes a letter for Mother Minka.

Felix then bumbs to Jankiel who tries to stop him but he wont stop, he goes.

Chapter four.

Felix managed to escape, and he feels very grateful to God, Jesus, the Virgin Mary, the Pope, and Adolf Hilter.

He’s in the woods and he thinks of how it would be wonderful if his parents were there.

He smells a cake and almond biscuits. He then sees Father Ludwik’s village and goes on with the walk.

He then finds a pig and he thinks he’s communicating with the pig, which is very strange.He looks at the food and tells himself not eat it because it isn’t enough for both of them.

He then finds a house and after getting in, he finds no one inside.The house looked as if the owners were in a hurry as they left.

Felix finds some food and changes the orphanage.clothes he was wearing. He confirms that there’s no one in the room but in the distance, he could hear faint gunshots. His imagination tells him that the owners are on a hunt.

He then heads to the direction of the river after leaving a letter for the owners.

On the way two trucks come and he tries to stop them but they couldn’t. The people in the truck had cloths lime that of army soldiers.

At last, Felix finds the river. He sticks his face inside the river and gets a drink.The water turns red and he can still hear the gunshots.

He tells himself that the hunters couldn’t have killed so many rabbits.

Chapter five

Felix walked for a long time in night and day, and finally arrives a5 his village.

He is shocked to find that it’s nearly empty. He remembered that people used to crowd as soon as there was daylight and they would do things and go to work even when still yawning.

He suspects he has misremembered where he used to live until he found his parent’s bookstore. He finds everything the same at their shop, except of the books, he finds non. He wonders if the Nazis have burnt them, or if his parents have changed their businesses to another place.

He then finds a couple who he thinks are his parents. He tries to speak to them and finds out they’re not his parents, then the woman shouts at him to get out.

Felix then finds a strange man who tells him he needs to run away since all the Jews have been taken to the city.Felix then decides to see if he can find his parents there. He was then given some bread and water and continued searching for his parents,

Felix decides to see if he can find his parents there.

Chapter six.

As Felix was walking towards the city to loom for his parents, he saw a fire at a long distance. He could hear trucks, vehicles and faint shouting voices but he couldn’t see to clearly because it was too far.

He then decides to go closer and se what’s happening.

He finds some dead chicken with gunshot holes, and a man and woman lying down, who seem to be dead. They are dead and he confirms it.

Felix then finds another person, a girl, about six years old, lying on her side. He realizes that the little girl is injured but not dead.

Felix puts her on his back and staggeres around as he walks.

When the girl wakes, she cries for her parents. He distracts her with a story about a certain child who spent three years and eight months living in a castle in the mountain.

They get to communicate and Felix gets to know her name, Zelda.

Zelda helps him make up the story as they go along.

They then find a haystack and rest there for the night.

Zelda was often sad but Felix distracted  her with stories here and there and she became cheerful.

Chapter Seven

The next day they both woke up on the hay.

Zelda starts crying for food and Felix remembers he had some bread and water and they both eat.

As they woke around, Felix hears footsteps and after looking he sees a lot of Jews being forced to match to the city by wun-wielding Nazis. Since they’re going that way, Felix doesn’t object when the Nazis find him and Zelda and force them to join the Jews.

The others looked sad and tired  and some were even crying.

Others would fall down and no one would help.

Felix could see it in Zelda’s eyes that she was afraid and wondering what was happening but he kept on destracting her with stories.

Felix became too tired and could no longer give Zelda a piggyback, so they both had to walk all the way to the city.

People are staggering along the road and others falling.

Zelda keeps asking a lot of questions but Felix keeps destracting her with made-up stories.

Felix was also thinking that maybe it was not only the books that the Nazis hated, and maybe it was them, the Jews, they hated.

Chapter Nine

Felix spent about six hours telling stories to Zelda to keep her spirits up.Then it started raining and they all walked in the rain hours and hours.

People keep falling and Zelda’s exhausted so she doesn’t ask about them anymore. People get shot here here and there but the journey to the city still continues.

As they walk they find a brick wall built right across the street and Jewish people working nearby.

They then arrive at the train station where they find Nzis throwing children and other Jews at the back of the train.

When Felix and Zelda try to sneak way, the Nazi nearly shoot them but a man stops him. He speaks to the Nazis for a few moments, and then is allowed to take Felix and Zelda with him.

The name of the man who saved Zelda and Felix is Barney.

Chapter Ten

The next day Felix wakes up with a painful light flickering in his eyes.

A man with a beard was looking down at him, it was the man who saved them with Zelda.

Felix then sees Zelda and remembers what happened.

Felix then realizes that there’re some other children, both girls and boys.

Felix then wakes up again and finds Barney holding his book and  then he asks Felix if he could read out the stories to the other kids.

Felix refuses and they all look at him disappointed.

He’s too impatient to find his parents.

Chapter  Eleven

Felix was now living in a cellar with seven other kids.

Zelda used to wake him up and tell hime to tell them a story but Felix didn’t want to. All he was thinking about is finding his parents.

Felix looks around and sees that the other kids have surprised him with a story tent but Felix was still in a bad mood and didn’t want to tell them any stories.

He then asks for Barney and he’s told Barney is out there looking for food..

Felix tries to escape and go look for his parents but he can’t because Barney locked everywhere.

Felix looses hope on escaping and he finally agrees to tell the kids a story. He tells them a story that made him believe his parents after the left him at the orphanage all those years. He then tells them a story of William, the one he had told to Zelda. He then makes up some story that will make them forget that the most important man in the whole Poland hates Jews and their books.

They then share what they’d wish for but when it’s Felix’s turn he can’t think of anything except his parents.

Chapter Twelve

The next day Felix has an escape plan. He lies to Barney that he needs some pills from his parents. He says he has a rare illness that only those pills will save.

After that story moment Barney tells Feloix that he’s a very good story letter and that he needs his help.

The city is silent with almost no one around. Barney tells Felix that the reason there’re no people is because of the curfew.

A woman leads leads them to the back of a certain apartment where they meet a lot of people with one of them lying on the bed groaning.

Felix discovers that Barney is a dentist and the usefulness of his trade keeps him relatively safe from the Nazis.

Barney asks Felix to give a story to the sick Nazi as he treats him. Felix tries to think of something and he’s lucky this time his imagination worked and the man enjoyed.

Barney takes Felix to nighttime dental appointments. Felix tells stories to the Nazi officers to distract the patients from the pain of dental work without anesthetics.

One patient is a Nazi  officer, he is entertained by Felix’s story and he wants him to write down for his children.

Chapter Thirteen

Barney stops Felix from asking the Nazi officer about his parents after Felix realizes the Nazi’s interested.

Felix and Zelda looks at a hole at the top of cellar and Zelda ays she can see her parent’s feet. Then she would start yelling calling her Mummy.

All Felix could hear was trucks arriving  and people yelling.

Zelda is so sad and wants to go yo her parents. Barney tells Felix he need to tell her the truth about her parents.

Felix wishes he could tell Zelda a happy story, but he can’t, it’s time she knows the the truth, then. Felix tells her everything he saw.

Zelda and the other kids start crying.

Zelda couldn’t believe it but she had to.

Chapter Fourteen

Felix was with Zelda untill she fell asleep, after listening to a sad story.

After Zelda’s asleep Felix goes on with the writing of the Nazi officer’s story.

Afterwards Barney comes and gives Felix some boots and tells him that everyone deserves to have something good in their life at least once.

Felix becomes very grateful and they head outside to look for water. Then they see several Jewish people, all walking in the same direction.

Felix hears the Jews say they’re beeing taken to the countryside but Barney knows they’re heading to the train station and they wouldn’t love what they find.

Barney tells Felix that once the Jews arrive to the city, they’re. ost likely to be sent to the death camps.

Barneys says that a man who escaped from the death camp came warning the Jews that they’re being taken to the death camp but no one believed, and so they won’t believe what Barney tells them.

Chapter Fifteen

Felix then hates all stories about, God, Jesus, Mary and everyone and how they’re meant to be taking care of them.

Zelda then becomes sick and they have to find aspirin for her or she dies.

Barney charges Felix with searching the empty houses of Ghetto for a bottle of aspirin. After nearly being captured, Felix discovers in Zelda’s locket a picture of her parents.

Her father is in Nazi uniform.

Felix then runs to the cellar and finds that the Nazis have discovered their basement hiding place.

Chapter sixteen

All of them in the cellar were made to walk  through the ghetto   being dragged by Nazis with guns.

Felix asks Barney where they’re being taken but Barney doesn’t answer for a while.

All the other kids are together with them with their daily routines.

They all arrive at the railway yard with harsh escort of the Nazis where it’s crowded with Jewish people, sitting in queues, waiting to get onto the long train.

Other kids are excited as they will travel by a train but everything turns opposite after they are all thrown mercilessly inside.

People are collapsing on the ground and other are being shot but there’s nothing they can do about it.

Felix sees the Nazi officer who had told him to write a story for his kids and he tries his best to get attention from the officer.

Soon the officer saw Felix and ordered all the soldiers surrounding him away, and he was given the pages with the story. The Nazi officer goes with Zelda but she insists and is thrown into the train with the other kids.

After everyone was in, the officers nailed the doors and the train set off.

Chapter Seventeen

It was Felix’s first journey on a train but it was not exciting. It was painful and miserable.

There were many of them in the train and they were crowded like ants. Barney makes the kids do some activities so they don’t get bored while on the train.

While on the train, Felix discovers a hole on the wall. The jews work together to make it bigger, and several of them jump out. The Nazis on top of the train fire machine guns at them, and some of the Jews that jump are killed. Some manage to escape and run to the woods, so Felix and Zelda say they want to take the chance. The other kids from the basement are too afraid, so Barney stays with them. Felix remembers the drugs in Barney’s pocket and knows that when they arrive at the death camp, he will tell the children a death story and then put them to sleep.

After saying the goodbyes, Felix and Zelda jump from the train, avoiding the gunfire. Together, they wonder what the future has in store for them. The story continues in the next book , "𝒯𝒽ℯ𝓃"

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𝚂𝚒𝚐𝚗𝚒𝚏𝚒𝚌𝚊𝚗𝚌𝚎 𝚘𝚏 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚌𝚊𝚛𝚛𝚘𝚝 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝙵𝚎𝚕𝚒𝚡'𝚜 𝚙𝚕𝚊𝚗 𝚏𝚘𝚛 𝚒𝚝

Felix thought that the carrot he found in his soup was a symbol that his parents were coming for him. He was very sad after realizing it was put there intentionally for him.

I think Felix was planning to eat the carrot but he didn’t because when he was leaving he left it with Dodie

𝙿𝚑𝚢𝚜𝚒𝚌𝚊𝚕 𝚎𝚗𝚟𝚒𝚛𝚘𝚗𝚖𝚎𝚗𝚝 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚌𝚘𝚗𝚍𝚒𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗𝚜 𝚘𝚏 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚘𝚛𝚙𝚑𝚊𝚗𝚊𝚐𝚎

The orphanage was not that good and that bad either. There was a library and a DH for all I know but I don’t think there was a field.

Bathing of the children took place in one bucket where the water would become so much dirty and still all the kids will use it to both.

Food was not also that plenty but the orphans still moved on with life.

Life with the kids was as usual in the outside world; some conflicts here and there and there was also a torture squad.

𝙵𝚎𝚕𝚒𝚡'𝚜 𝚙𝚛𝚎𝚟𝚒𝚘𝚞𝚜 𝚕𝚒𝚏𝚎 𝚍𝚛𝚊𝚠𝚗 𝚏𝚛𝚘𝚖 𝚑𝚒𝚜 𝚖𝚎𝚖𝚘𝚛𝚒𝚎𝚜

According to some of Felix’s memories and flashbacks, it seems that he used to live a happy life with his family.

During the Felix’s birth at the orphanage, he could recall how his mum was giving him a warm bath near the fireplace and narrating stories to him.

He also used to tell Zelda how his parents would take of them happily after they find them.

Felix also had a lot of love for his parents because he sacrificed almost everything and took huge risks in order to find his parents.

𝙵𝚎𝚕𝚒𝚡'𝚜 𝚎𝚡𝚙𝚕𝚊𝚗𝚊𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗 𝚏𝚘𝚛 𝚠𝚑𝚊𝚝 𝚒𝚜 𝚑𝚊𝚙𝚙𝚎𝚗𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚍𝚞𝚛𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚑𝚒𝚜     𝚝𝚒𝚖𝚎 𝚊𝚝 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚘𝚛𝚙𝚑𝚊𝚗𝚊𝚐𝚎

Felix has lived in the orphanage  for more than three years and is afraid to loose his friends when they find out he’s not an orphan.

When the vehicle with the Nazis came, Felix thought that it was his parents who had it.

At that time he didn’t know that the Nazis were looking for Jews in order to capture them.

After he saw them burn Jewish books, he realized that the Nazis had something against the Jews.

At last he decided to escape from the orphanage and go look for his parents.

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In what geographical area and period of history is the novel set?

Once is about a small boy named Felix who was growing up in the 1930s in a Catholic orphanage in German mountains.

Although Once is a work fiction, Gleitzman was inspired by the story of 𝙹𝚊𝚗𝚞𝚜 𝙺𝚘𝚛𝚌𝚣𝚊𝚔, the events of world war ll, and Hilter’s attempt to exterminate the Jewish population of Europe.

Once was also translated inti German.

Why Felix’s parents made the decision they made.

Felix’s parents left Felix in the orphanage because of a number of reasons.

His parents wanted to protect him from the Nazis who were getting rid of all the Jews.

They also left him there because they knew it was safe and that Felix would learn a lot too.

Felix’s parents had lied about the Jewish book selling issue but they did that in order to protect their child.

Grief and where it reflects

There have been grief in most parts of the story Once.

Many Jews have gone through pain in Felix’s and Zelda’s eyes but they wouldn’t do anything to help.

During the time the Jews were being forced to the city alot of them died and were hit hard but could do nothing.

A lot of bad things used to happen until sometimes Felix did not find it scaring when a person dies.

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Find examples to illustrate these aspects.
1. Selfish

Selfish has appeared  whereby the Jews did not have the rights like the others. Adolf Hitler was not good on the Jews and he treated them like trash.

Felix was also selfish when he refused to share his stories with the kids even after being convinced by Barney.

2. Unselfish

Felix was unselfish when he left one of his most beloved items for Dodie at the orphanage. When Felix was about to escape from the orphanage, he left his carrot for Dodie, which was very awrkward for Dodie because the a whole carrot was very important at the orphanage.

Getting a whole carrot was like a miracle at the orphanage and so Dodie was very happy about that.

Contributions of Felix’s books to his development

Felix is fond of reading and writing books and they have contributed alot to his creativity.

Felix has a strong imagination and creativity that helps him solve problems and push harder with life.

He also has the ability to write or even narrate a story that he has never heard before, or has occurred in his life greatly without mistakes.

He also has the capability to make out something from nowhere that can set him free most of the time.

How has Felix’s stories been able to set him free at some point.

There was a time when Felix wanted to escape from Barney’s cellar where they were hiding and Felix made up a story that, even though it didn’t give him a chance to escape, it contributed to his going out. This is because Barney saw that Felix has a talent of making up stories and he told Felix to accompany him to the Nazis who were sick so that he could narrate stories that can make them ignore their pain.

Felix also saved his life together with Zelda after making up a story to a Nazi officer who wanted to shoot him.

When Felix was at the orphanage, Jankiel was in danger of the torture squad and Felix set him free by making up a story that made the torture squad stop hurting him.

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Felix was a boy who had a lot of strengths.

Felix was able to create something interesting and helpful from his imagination. Sometimes he was able to set himself free by making up a story that would sometimes confuse others.

He was very creative that he even wrote made up stories or stories from some of his or his parent’s experiences.

He was a strong boy that never gives up easily. He pushed on hard to life no matter what and he would even take risks to save  his  friends.

Felix had a strong imagination and even if most of what he imagined wasn’t right, it helped him get more hope and still move on after falls.

Felix was a boy of big dreams and hope. All that time Felix looked for his parents because he had hope that he would find them and did not give up.

Reaction of Felix to people and the horrors he’s confronted by.

Felix’s reactions to situations is also based on his imagination and what he thinks of people.

Felix reaction to people happens in such a way that Felix tends to read the minds of other people in a way that he tries to think what they are thinking and put it to reality.Like for example the Nazi who told Felix he needed a story for his kids, Felix knew that there was a chance for him at that point.

When something happens, Felix first imagines what will happen next and does as per his imagination, and when something is about to happen, Felix puts the situation to reality and imagines whats going to happen next and then he gets a solution though some of the solutions fail to work.

Felix’s imagination and creativity controls  him the most in almost all his deeds.

Positives attributes that make Felix believe and continue with his journey.

Felix believes that one day he’s going to find his parents.

He also has the big hopes before starting anything that he’s going to make it no matter what. Mostly when he fails, he doesn’t find it a big deal, he just moves on to another plan.

Felix’s imaginations make him become stronger because he imagines good things that will happen after and he’s also optimistic.

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Indicate the early turning points of Felix and what causes him to start questioning his understandings.

Most of Felix’s understandings and imaginations were positive but the reality was negative.

When Felix was left in the orphanage he believed that the reason was because of the Jewish bookselling issue. All his solutions on the issue were based on that and that’s why his plans were to save his parent’s books before he also knee that the Nazis were ,mostly directed on the Jews.

The letters that Felix used to receive from his parents would give him hope that a day will come when he meets his parents and they live happily together again.

When Felix received the carrot he thought that it was from his parents as a sign or symbol that they are coming back for him.The reality was that the carrot had no connection to his parents. Felix’s imagination and flashbacks that his parents know that carrots are his favorite vegetables made him believe that the carrot was from his parents.

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How does Felix’s story telling abilities help him and his friends.

Felix’s story telling abilities are for, his reading experience and that he’s curious on knowing more about stories.

Felix is good at story telling especially kid’s stories. He’s also a good writer who can write from his, his friend’s or his parent’s experience.

Felix’s story writing abilities has helped him to have problem solving skills and a high level of imagination. It also gave him a chance to be helped by the Nazi officer who asked him to write a story for his kids.

Felix’s story telling abilities have also helped his friend be curious on story telling. For example Zelda also learnt how to tell stories and she became somehow good at it.

This story telling abilities help Felix a on the day to day circumstances. Whenever he encounters something new he imagines it and then at last he writes a story about it, or if he doesn’t, he can even narrate to the others orally.

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Dedication.
Maybe by saying, “for all the children whose stories have never been told, Morris Gleitzman means that some of the secretive and non secretive  experience that children go through are established in the story.
Why is it important to share these stories today?

I think for children it’s important to share these stories today because they will nature contribute to their growth mentally and emotionally.

It is also important to share them because they make a good and powerful start for us in the  Literature world.

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Author’s letter, (novel’s end)

Morris Gleitzman tells us that the story is from his imagination and real life situations. He has also gained writing knowledge from some of the books he read in the past.

When you read the letter, you might be inspired to write your own story and read more books.

Why did he include the letter.

I think the reason he included this was to show us what inspired him to write the story. Most of the letter is talking about how Adolf Hilter tried to end the the race of the Jews.

I think he also wrote that the book is not just a story from anywhere written but a connection of real life events in the past.

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Discuss atleast 8 themes in the text.

1. Hope - 𝚃𝚑𝚎  𝚖𝚊𝚒𝚗 𝚌𝚑𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚌𝚝𝚎𝚛, 𝙵𝚎𝚕𝚒𝚡, 𝚛𝚊𝚛𝚎𝚕𝚢 𝚕𝚘𝚘𝚜𝚎𝚜 𝚑𝚘𝚙𝚎 𝚝𝚑𝚊𝚝 𝚝𝚒𝚗𝚐𝚜 𝚠𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚒𝚖𝚙𝚛𝚘𝚟𝚎 𝚘𝚛 𝚝𝚞𝚛𝚗 𝚘𝚞𝚝 𝚠𝚎𝚕𝚕. 𝙷𝚎'𝚜 𝚊𝚕𝚠𝚊𝚢𝚜 𝚖𝚘𝚛𝚎 𝚝𝚑𝚊𝚗 𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚍𝚢 𝚝𝚘 𝚖𝚊𝚔𝚎 𝚊 𝚗𝚎𝚠 𝚖𝚘𝚟𝚎 𝚠𝚑𝚎𝚗𝚎𝚟𝚎𝚛 𝚗𝚎𝚌𝚎𝚜𝚜𝚊𝚛𝚢

2. Sacrifice - 𝙵𝚎𝚕𝚒𝚡 𝚒𝚜 𝚊𝚕𝚠𝚊𝚢𝚜 𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚍𝚢 𝚝𝚘 𝚑𝚎𝚕𝚙 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚊𝚕𝚠𝚊𝚢𝚜 𝚙𝚞𝚝𝚜 𝚘𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚛𝚜      𝚋𝚎𝚏𝚘𝚛𝚎 𝚑𝚒𝚖 𝚒𝚗 𝚊𝚕𝚕 𝚜𝚒𝚝𝚞𝚊𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗𝚜, 𝚠𝚑𝚊𝚝𝚎𝚟𝚎𝚛 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚌𝚘𝚗𝚜𝚎𝚚𝚞𝚎𝚗𝚌𝚎𝚜

3. Strong, Powerful, Imagination - 𝙵𝚎𝚕𝚒𝚡 𝚒𝚖𝚊𝚐𝚒𝚗𝚎𝚜 𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚗𝚐𝚜 𝚝𝚑𝚊𝚝 𝚐𝚒𝚟𝚎 𝚑𝚒𝚖 𝚑𝚘𝚙𝚎 𝚕𝚒𝚔𝚎 𝚗𝚘 𝚘𝚗𝚎 𝚎𝚕𝚜𝚎. 𝙷𝚒𝚜 𝚒𝚖𝚊𝚐𝚒𝚗𝚊𝚛𝚒𝚘𝚗 𝚐𝚒𝚟𝚎𝚜 𝚑𝚒𝚖 𝚑𝚘𝚙𝚎 𝚝𝚘𝚐𝚎𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚛 𝚠𝚒𝚝𝚑 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚙𝚎𝚘𝚙𝚕𝚎 𝚊𝚛𝚘𝗎𝚗𝚍 𝚑𝚒𝚖.

4. Friendship - 𝙵𝚎𝚕𝚒𝚡 𝚒𝚜 𝚘𝚏𝚝𝚎𝚗 𝚏𝚛𝚒𝚎𝚗𝚍𝚜 𝚠𝚒𝚝𝚑 𝚎𝚟𝚛𝚢𝚘𝚗𝚎 𝚎𝚡𝚌𝚎𝚙𝚝 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚋𝚞𝚕𝚕𝚒𝚎𝚜. 𝙷𝚎'𝚜 𝚏𝚛𝚒𝚎𝚗𝚍𝚜𝚑𝚒𝚙 𝚠𝚒𝚝𝚑 𝚉𝚎𝚕𝚍𝚊 𝚜𝚞𝚜𝚝𝚊𝚒𝚗𝚜 𝚑𝚒𝚖.

5. Resilience - 𝙵𝚎𝚕𝚒𝚡 𝚜𝚘𝚖𝚎𝚝𝚒𝚖𝚎𝚜 𝚏𝚒𝚗𝚍𝚜 𝚑𝚒𝚖𝚜𝚎𝚕𝚏 𝚒𝚗 𝚠𝚘𝚛𝚜𝚝 𝚒𝚖𝚊𝚐𝚒𝚗𝚊𝚋𝚕𝚎 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚞𝚗𝚒𝚖𝚊𝚐𝚒𝚗𝚊𝚋𝚕𝚎 𝚜𝚒𝚝𝚞𝚊𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗𝚜 𝚋𝚞𝚝 𝚑𝚎 𝚜𝚝𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚜𝚝𝚛𝚒𝚔𝚎𝚜 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚌𝚘𝚗𝚝𝚒𝚗𝚞𝚎𝚜 𝚝𝚘 𝚜𝚞𝚛𝚟𝚒𝚟𝚎.

6. KINDNESS=Felix portrayed kindness kindness every time he helped people in need,he once helped Jankiel from the hands of the bullies

7. COURAGE =Felix always showed courage every time he did something he had never done before.He risked his life for his parents sake when he left the orphanage to inform them about theNazi soldiers.

8. LIVING WITH OTHERS =while Felix was in the orphanage,he learnt how to live peacefully and interact with others .

Explore and analyze the powerful roles that Hope, Resilience and Optimistic play in Felix’s story.

Felix is very hopeful and it helps him a lot. In everything that he does, Felix expects good things and believes that he will prosper and that helps him become stronger for more challenges.

Resilience - Felix sticks hard and never gives up. He believes that no matter what he will make it. Resilience has helped him become string  imaginery and emotionally.

Felix believes that he is good and something good will come out of him. Being Optimistic has helped him learn to do more and push harder with life because he believes he is good. At the time he jumped from the train he believed that they will survive and they eventually did except of Chaya.