{"id":1978,"date":"2021-04-02T13:26:04","date_gmt":"2021-04-02T13:26:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/olhslrc\/?page_id=1978"},"modified":"2022-08-03T19:16:43","modified_gmt":"2022-08-03T19:16:43","slug":"johnnydead","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/olhslrc\/pw\/language\/johnnydead\/","title":{"rendered":"Johnny and the Dead by Terry Pratchett"},"content":{"rendered":"
Plot<\/em><\/span><\/h5>\n
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Johnny Maxwell takes a shortcut through the local cemetery and realises that he can see and hear the dead people that are buried there. He tells them that the council have sold the cemetery land to a large company who intend to build offices on it. Johnny begins plans to stop the destruction going ahead, while the dead make some discoveries of their own.<\/p>\n

Authors – Terry Pratchett \/ Stephen Briggs\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/h5>\n
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The life and works of Sir Terry Pratchett<\/a><\/p>\n

Stephen Briggs’s website<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Discover more about Terry Pratchett<\/span>
\nand his work in the Library catalogue<\/span>
\n<\/em>in school<\/a>\u00a0 OR\u00a0 at home<\/a><\/h5>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
Themes – universal ideas<\/em><\/span><\/h5>\n
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Communities, friendship, life after death, progress and change, urban environment.<\/p>\n

More to explore – motifs, symbols, context, setting<\/em><\/span><\/h5>\n
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Aldermen, brass bands, capitalism, care homes, cemeteries, communism, councillors, Day of the Dead, development, Einstein, escapology, Latin, ghosts, Hallowe’en, high rise flats, Marconi, Marx Brothers, occult, own goals, Pals’ Battalions, political correctness. POWs, Rastafarians, reggae, suffragettes, Victorians, World War I<\/p>\n

Did you know?<\/em><\/span><\/h5>\n
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One of the Dead is a First World War soldier. The Commonwealth War Graves Commission<\/a> was set up to create and look after the graves of men and women from Commonwealth countries who fought in World War I.\u00a0 This includes graves in Motherwell and graves of people from Motherwell who died overseas.<\/p>\n