Goodnight Mr Tom- Analysis

We have been reading the novel Goodnight Mr Tom by Michelle Magorian as part of our I.D.L topic, World War 2. The book is about a young boy called Willie who is evacuated from London and sent to a small town called Little Weirwold. He is taken in by Tom Oakley who, at first, seems to be a grumpy old man but he gradually becomes more caring and very fond of Willie. Willie did not have a good life in London because his mother told him lies and continually beat him. However, his life in Little Weirwold is much better as Tom does not beat him and buys him lots of treats and essentials.

We did some character analysis on our chosen character and wrote quotes from the book to back up our ideas. We then wrote a character description using our characterisation notes. Finally we drew our character and annotated it using our notes.

Cameron’s illustration of Willie
Ewan’s illustration of Tom

 

Next we took notes from the text about the setting (Little Weirwold) and used these notes to draw a map of Little Weirwold so far.

Chloe’s setting analysis and map
Joseph’s setting map

 

 

 

 

 

 

We then looked at life as an evacuee by watching videos and compared it to our own lives using a Venn diagram.

Elise’s Venn diagram

 

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