Journeys
Journeys
Journeys
Chapter 5 Chapter 12
• Highlight all the words that • Highlight all the words that
reflect Bruno’s journey. reflect Shmuel’s journey.
Keywords
Inference
Compare L.O-Read and interpret details in Chapter 12
Contrast • Compare and contrast the two train journeys.
Context
• Analyse the author’s use of language and word choice
Purpose
Evaluate • Evaluate Boyne's choices
The official car with the flags on the front had “Then one day the soldiers all came with
taken them to the train station, where there huge trucks,’ continued Shmuel, who
were two tracks separated by a wide platform, didn’t seem all that interested in Gretel.
and on either side a train stood waiting for the ‘And everyone was told to leave the
passengers to board. Because there were so houses. Lots of people didn’t want to and
many soldiers marching about on the other they hid wherever they could find a place
side, not to mention the fact that there was a but in the end I think they caught everyone.
long hut belonging to the signalman separating And the trucks took us to a train and the
the tracks, Bruno could only make out the train ...’ He hesitated for a moment and bit
crowds of people for a few moments before he his lip. ... ‘The train was horrible,’ said
and his family boarded a very comfortable train Shmuel. ‘There were too many of us in the
with very few people on it and plenty of empty carriages for one thing. And there was no
seats and fresh air when the windows were air to breathe. And it smelled awful.’ ...
pulled down. If the trains had been going in
‘We weren’t able to get out of our
different directions, he thought, it wouldn’t
carriage ... there weren’t any doors ... there
have seemed so odd, but they weren’t; they
weren’t any doors,’ insisted Shmuel.
were both pointed eastwards. For a moment he
Keywords considered running across the platform to tell ‘When the train finally stopped,’ continued
Inference the people about the empty seats in his Shmuel, ‘we were in a very cold place and
Compare carriage, but he decided not to as something we all had to walk here.’
Contrast told him that if it didn’t make Mother angry, it
‘And Mama was taken away from us.’
Context would probably make Gretel furious, and that
(Shmuel)
Purpose would be worse still. (Bruno)
Evaluate