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Michael Morpurgo

Kensuke's Kingdom

  • birgittebundgaardhas quoted4 years ago
    he was keeping me alive, but he was also keeping me prisoner

    Michael is true. It is like that he maybe couldn’t survive if he hadn’t have help from Kensuke.

  • birgittebundgaardhas quoted4 years ago
    Now I understood. It was a map of the island. When it was done he fell on his knees beside it, and piled up mounds of sand, one at each end – the two hills. Then, very deliberately, he etched out a straight line, top to bottom, cutting the smaller end of the island off from the larger one.

    Important to remember this I can always go back!

  • pvbosshas quoted4 years ago
    The next morning, after a breakfast of fish and jackfruit and coconut
  • pvbosshas quoted4 years ago
    old man’s part
  • pvbosshas quoted4 years ago
    tried fishing in the shallows
  • pvbosshas quoted4 years ago
    gesticulating wildly with his stick
  • pvbosshas quoted4 years ago
    This whole body was shaking with fury
  • pvbosshas quoted4 years ago
    brown skin lay in folds about him, almost as if he’d shrunk inside it. What little hair he had on his head and his chin was long and wispy and white.
    I could see at once that he was very agitated, his chin trembling, his heavily hooded eyes accusing and angry
  • pvbosshas quoted4 years ago
    He was diminutive, no taller than me, and as old a man as I had ever seen. He wore nothing but a pair of tattered breeches bunched at the waist, and there was a large knife in his belt. He was thin, too. In places – under his arms, round his neck and his midriff – his copper
  • pvbosshas quoted4 years ago
    Our new home
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