Part three
Chapter 13 - Snow-white villa
Characters:
• Spiro
• Mother
• Gerry
• Theodore
• Geronimo
• Cicely
• Mantis
• Mantids
• Myrtles
• Toads
• Bat
• Mosquitoes
Gerry finds many interesting animals, a bat,
myrtles, toads, geckos, mantids and mantis. One fascinating gecko which he
named Geronimo was very territorial and would even eat the tail of other geckos
to defend his territory.
He also found a large pregnant mantis which he
named Cicely. One day Cicely escaped, she flew to the sealing (Geronimo’s
territory) Geronimo attached her and after a epic battle which went from the
sealing to Gerry’s bed, at the end Geronimo was greatly wounded and without
tail but victorious.
Gerry was wondering around and lifted a rock and
found two very large toads, he immediately took them home to show them to the
others. He showed them to mother and Spiro, none of them was nearly as excited
as Gerry Spiro even vomited because of the disgusting toads.
The toads ate a lot of things Moths, mosquitos,
battles and also the one gecko friend that Geronimo had made.
Chapter 14 - The talking flowers
Characters:
- · Gerry
- · Kralefsky
- · Kralefsky's Mother
In this chapter, Gerry describes his new tutor,
an eccentric man named Kralefsky, and his classes with him. Kralefsky is an
English ornithologist who lives with his equally peculiar mother in an old
mansion. Unlike Gerry's previous tutor, his lessons are very monotonous, mainly
consisting of memorizing and repeating information. Kralefsky owns a large collection
of birds which he takes care of by himself. His mother, whose name is never
mentioned, is an elderly lady who's slightly obsessed with her hair. Because of
her age, she spends all of her time inside her room, surrounded by plants which
she is convinced can talk to her.
Setting
· Kralefsky's house (the top two stories of a
square, mildewed old mansion that stood on the outskirts of town)
· The town
Animals involved:
Kralefsky's bird collection, which includes but
is not limited to goldfinches, greenfinches, linnets and bullfinches
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17 - The Chessboard Fields
Characters:
- · Gerald
- · Friends of Gerald’s family
- · Kosti Panopolous: he is a convict. He was brown and had blue eyes, He wore a blue shirt and grey pants.
- · Larry
- · Margo and Mother
- Leslie
Animals mentioned:
- · Old Plump: he is a ancient terrapin, with a black skin. He was older than any other terrapin Gerald could find in the Chessboard Fields.
- · Roger, Widdle and Puke.
- · Two water snakes: one was a male the other a female. Both were fat and brow. They had silvery eyes.
- · Alecko: an adult black gull, with a quite aggressive mood.
When and Where:
· This chapter takes place, after the family
arrived to the Snow-White Villa.
· This chapter began with one of Gerald's
expeditions in the Chessboard Fields, and concluded when Gerald had a
chat with his family in his house.
Summary:
Below the Snow-White, there were the Chessboard
Fields which were near the sea. The fields belonged to the families which were
friends of Gerald’s family. One afternoon, Gerald took his net, box and dogs
and visited the fields. While he was walking, he took the delicious and
juiceful grapes and figs of fields or he eat them with his neighbours. At the
other side of the field Gerald saw a see, filled with birds and sand.
In the channels between the fields Gerald caught
many terrapins, but Gerald could never catch the oldest terrapin and with
beautiful black skin, “the Old Plump”. The terrapin, which Gerald so
desperately wanted, always managed to escape in the channels, before he could
catch him. While Gerald tried to catch the Old Plump, equipped with his net and
box, the 3 dogs chased an animal through the fields. When they barked, Gerald
came and saw the animals, which the dogs chased. The dogs chased a male and a
female water snake. Gerald managed to catch one of them, but the other escaped
in the mud. He, with the help of his foot, managed to find, the other
watersnake. The water snake tried to bite him, but Gerald grabbed her by the
neck, and collocated both snakes in his net.
While Gerald was preparing to continue with his
adventure, a stranger named “Kosti” arrived. They enjoyed the nice afternoon,
and had a quite interesting conversation. They didn´t talk about their personal
information (as people from Corfu usually do), and talked about some stories.
Kosti is a actual convict in “Vido” (a near tiny islet), because he murdered
his wife. He still has 2 years to go, but thanks to his good behaviour, he can
explore Corfu with a boat during the weekend. He had a gull Alecko, which
seemed to like Gerald (he didn't like people usually). Kosti gave Alecko to
Gerald, because Alecko didn't like the inmates or wards. Kosti proposed Gerald
to go fishing with him tomorrow, so they would have enough fish for Alecko.
Gerald put Alecko under his arms (Alecko didn't
liked it) and took his way home. When he arrives home, Aleko starts to scream
and all the family run into the room. Alecko wanted to attack Dodo and Larry,
but he failed. Dodo´s joint problem returned. Gerald was bothered of the lack
of the ornithologist knowledge of the family, because they said Alecko was a
peacock. At the end, Alecko stayed in the veranda. Gerald asked for Mother's
permission to go fishing with Kosti. Mother agreed, but Leslie must survey
them, because Mother didn't trust in this convict. Mother tells Gerald to
invite Kosti to their villa. Mother likes him and she said he hasn't got a
“murderous” aspect. Larry says only a murder could give Gerald a gull.
Opinion:
Gerald surprised me with thid chapter because he showed us that convicts can change and they don´t necessarily need to be excluded from society, because of their mistakes. Well, we all commit mistakes, dont we?
Opinion:
Gerald surprised me with thid chapter because he showed us that convicts can change and they don´t necessarily need to be excluded from society, because of their mistakes. Well, we all commit mistakes, dont we?
Chapter 18 - An Entertainment with Animals
Characters:
- Mother
- Gerry
- Larry
- Leslie
- Margot
- And all the people, because they made a party.
Summary:
The chapter starts with people helping putting tables, chair and other things, because the family made a Christmas party where everybody was invited, even the not like people.
All the party had no organization. It was made just for fun and no one has any control. The snakes of Gerry scape and ate three of the gold fish, also they scarier some of the gests. After all they stay on the sun and get dry. For this mother sad that he could let them in the bath, with water, so they can heal, Jerry left the snakes there and after a while Margo enters and get scare and then complains to mother, but she just said that they could put them on the sink.
All of this happens on the village.
The party wasn’t even on Christmas, it was just a pretext to make a party.
The Return
Characters:
•Gerald
•Mr Kralefsky
•Mother
•Theodore
•Spiro
•Larry
Animals:
•Birds
•Tortoises
•Dogs (Roger)
•Magenpies
Where:
•This takes part in corfu and in the island
where they were in the chapter 18
Summary:
Mr Kralefsky told mother that Gerry was ready to
go to other country like Switzerland or England. After a long talk with mother
they decided to return to Corfu, when they arrived the custom man stoped them
and he asked why mother didn't have clothe but he was saying that on a weird
accent that mother couldn't understand so they called Spiro to have a
discussion with the custom man.
After a long talk in Corfu, Gerald went in a
train to London.
Opinion:
It was a very quite short chapter but a very
good ending for a book.