My family and others animals
Author:
Gerald Durrell
Characters:
Spiro,
Roger, Margo, Mr Beder, Gerry, George.
Setting
Events
in the story
Chapter 1:
The month of July was over and the
Durrell family did not like the climate that existed in England. They were
talking about what solution they could put to this, and they concluded that the
best thing would be to move to another place, a place like Greece. They took the car and started the trip, and in one of
these moments, they met Roger, the dog.
Chapter 2:
They were looking where to camp and stop to sleep.
They stopped at the pension Suisse. The hotel on the outside was very good and
they were well taken care of inside, but there was an accident with Margo in
the bathroom because of the typhus. The hostel was located on the road of a
cemetery. He went to find another house
because there was no sanitary service here. They went out with Mr Beder, the hotel guide, but they did not see
any house in condition and they returned to the hotel. The next day they wanted
to take a taxi but they did not understand them very well and a man wanted to
take them away. Spiro took us to a villa that seemed to be very well, also had
a bathroom.
Chapter 3:
The villa was beautiful as if they were back home. Spiro took care of everything
because there he was very well known. In the garden of the house, Gerry, he
became familiar with a family of earwigs that he loved, lots of lovely little
bugs. He also made friends with some peasants of the island.
Chapter 4:
Gerry went out with Roger for a walk and found Agathi
the 70-year-old grandmother and they were singing for a while. While walking,
he met the Man of the Estonians who sold
him a turtle. He took her home and after getting acquainted with her she ran
away because the door was open, they went in search of her and found her in a
well, she was dead. The next day the Man of the Cetonia gave him a pigeon that
soon after had 2 eggs. The pigeon was not very happy with this family.
Chapter 5:
The mother said that Gerry needed
some instruction because he was very nervous. George came to a friend of Larry, to give him some math and French. First, they started at home with some maps and
to point out certain points. A few days later, they were already going through
the village watching and studying animals and they ended up in a lake where
they bathed and where they found many marine species.
Chapter 6:
Gerry
kept going with Theodore to tea and showed him his house, it was impressive.
Spring started and with it, Larry had to
diet, but it was useless, Margo did not feel very good about spring. It was the
time to go to the beach and to go out through the olive groves. He met a young
Turk. Spiro and Gerry knew that he was dating that Turk and Spiro told his
mother. The Turk introduced himself to the mother and invited them to go to the
cinema and to dinner. They arrived at one and they did not like anything, thank
goodness he was only on vacation and I would not see him again. In contrast to
Leslie if he liked spring. Gerry and Leslie went out with the shotgun to hunt
doves.
Chapter 7:
The Durrell family moved to a
beautiful villa, an immense house. They hired the gardener's wife to help them,
but she was always telling her sorrows. The furniture of the house fell to
pieces and went to the town to look and to buy furniture.
They arrived at the town and it
was a party, San Espiridón and this day they could kiss the feet of the saint
and Margo kissed them and got sick with the flu. Theodore went to the village
on Thursdays for tea and explained anecdotes to Gerry about his life.
Chapter 8:
Behind the villa, Gerry found, behind a bush, a turtle
that came out from under the ground. He found many turtles. To one of them, he named her Madame Cyclops because she
had only one eye. Gerry took one of the turtle's eggs without her noticing.
Larry's friends
started arriving. Later another guest named Melanie arrived and called a lot of
attention because she had no hair and the mother did not like her very much. At
dinner, they were arguing.
Chapter 9:
The garden was
surrounded by a wall, a hunting ground. Gerry was watching some scorpions. He
took a pregnant scorpion female and put it in a box and took it away. Larry
finished his lunch and opened the scorpion box and all his cubs came out. The
mother decided that she would have to do classes to better the French, Spiro
took her to the Belgian consul to teach. Classes bored him. Theodore on
Thursday went to the villa and for him,
it was a special day because the Athens seaplane landed.
