RUNNING WILD
By
Michael Morpurgo
Will and his mother have never left
their melancholy faces ever since that terrible afternoon in which they got the
terrible news of Will’s father’s death due to war. His mother was native of
Indonesia, even though she had never lived there. Will’s grandmother decided to
give them a present of a trip to Indonesia, to calm them down. There, when Will
was taking a ride on an elephant, a terrible tsunami occurred, in which almost
everybody at the beach had died.
The elephant, whose name was Oona,
had managed to run away with Will on her back to the safety of the jungle,
where the tsunami could not get them. Will was now officially an orphan. This
story tells the tale of Will, and his adventures in the jungle, with Oona by
his side, to protect him from passing tigers and dangers in the jungle.
This book is interesting, and it is
based at the time of the World War 2. The story is very probable in actual
life. in other words, it is a Historical Fiction. It provides good tips on
survival, and if you too are one day stuck in the middle of the forest, you too
might be able to make use of the information provided.
This book also contains lots of
information on the behavior of various kinds of animals, like the Elephant, tiger,
orangutan, and chimpanzees. A lot of the above tend to not want to tackle an
elephant, or other humongous animals.
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