The Boy On The Top of The Mountain

Hi everyone! Today's blog is about a literature circle book that my group and I are reading. Here is a summary of this book:

Chapter 1: Three Red Spots on a Handkerchief
The book first talked about Pierrot's family and his best friend Anshel. Anshel was born deaf so Pierrot and him created a sign for each other. Anshel gave Pierrot the sigh of a dog while Pierrot gave the sign of a fox for Anshel. Pierrot would also help Anshel with his stories that he writes. Pierrot's mother rarely talks about her husband but Pierrot could imagine him as a tall man who would mimic the sounds of a horse. Pierrot's mother was also a French while Pierrot's father was a German. One day, Pierrot's mother had something a long the lines of a change reaction. She coughed non-stop and one day, while she was coughing into her handkerchief, when she pulled it away, there was three res spots of blood on it.

Chapter 2: The Medel in the Cabinet
This chapter talks about the Durrand sisters, Adele and Simone. They grew up in a large mansion about eighty miles away. Their parents owned a orphanage where they take care of children that's lost their familys or parents. After they died, the Durrand sisters took charge of the orphanage and did the same things as their parents. Pierrot's mother then died of a disease and his father died after he fell under a train. Pierrot was then sent to the orphanage.

Chapter 3: A Letter from a friend and A Letter from a stranger
The orphanage wasn't that great. The beds were thin and hard ad the food was plentiful. Pierrot was also bullied by a boy named Hugo. He really didn't like it. Hugo threatened Pierrot to give him five francs or he would continue to bully him. Pierrot didn't accept so Hugo lashed out his fist and punched Pierrot directly on the nose and he fell to the ground. At the end Josette went and told the Durrand sisters what had happened.

Chapter 4: Three Train Journeys
In this chapter, it talks about Pierrot being sent to his aunt Beatrix's house. He goes a train three times. This first stop is Mannheim. Josette is sort of upset that Pierrot is going and she was also sort of curious about Pierrot's aunt. In his first train, there was this mother and son sitting in one of the carriage. A tall man dressed in black came and sat at the fourth seat. The lady didn't enjoy it and the conductor thought he was creating a big problem so he kicked him out. His second stop was Munich. Before he got on his train, he tripped over a man also in black and Pierrot recovers himself at the end. He is put in a carriage with these older kids and one of them steals two of Pierrot's sandwiches that he was sent with for his journey. The boy ate the first one in three big bites and started on his second one. His last stop was Salzburg. In the train, he starts reading a book called Emil and the Detectives and he found that Emil had some common things with himself. When his journey was done, there comes up a lady saying that she is his aunt.

Chapter 5: The House At The Top of the Mountain
Pierrot woke up the next morning to find himself in a room. He was changed in his nightgown and everything was gone. He suitcase and clothes. Then there comes one of the mistress of the house that expects him to be clean and told him that his suitcases and clothes were possibly ashes by then. He also found out that the house was on top of a mountain.

So those were the chapters that I've read for my literature circle. So far, I would give this book a 4-5 rating so far. It's pretty good. So that's the end of this blog. Stay tuned for more!