MY FAMILY AND OTHER ANIMALS
Author: Gerald Durrell
Characters:
Spiro, Roger, Margo, Mr Beder,
Gerry, George.
Chapter 1: the
family Durrell don’t like so much the weather in England and they decide to go
to an Greece island.
When they start the travel,
they found a dog called Roger. The
Durrel family finally stay in a hotel very good, but Margo have a problem with
the toilets of the hotel and they wanted to go to another house with a good
toilet but they don´t found anything. The next day they found Spiro, a Greece
guy that speaks English very well and he found a house for the family.
Chapter 2: they like so much
the village. Spiro took care of anything, in the garden Gerry do “friends”,
this was earwigs. Gerry do also a with a peasant of the village.
Chapter 3: Gerry went with
Roger to do a walk and they met with, a grandmother of 70 years old. He buys a
turtle to the “cetoniids man”.
The turtle then run away from
the house because the door was open, they found the death turtle in a hole.
Then he buys a pigeon but the pigeon don´t be so well with the family.
Chapter 4: Gerry’s mothers say
to Gerry that he has to study, and a Larry’s friend called George teach him a
bit of French and maths.
Chapter 5: Gerry and Roger
went to climb, but they were so hungry and they went to Yanni’s house, they
show him an antidote for scorpion’s chopped, then they were walking and they
found a strange nest of spiders.
Chapter 6: Gerry went a lot of
times to Teodoro’s house. It was spring
and Margo don’t like the spring, she starts to meet with a Turk boy, Spiro say
this to Margo’s mum. The Turk boy went with Margo and Margo’s mum to the cinema
and to dinner but they don’t like anything. Leslie and Gerry start to go to
hunt doves.
Chapter 7: the Durrell’s
family move to another house in the village, they contract the gardener’s
woman. All the furniture starts to get break and they went the village to buy
furniture, there were a party, San Spyridon parties.
Chapter 8: Gerry found turtles
and he catch the eggs turtles and he bring the egg turtle to the house. The
Larry’s friends start to came, but it was one girl that haven’t hair.
Chapter 9: Gerry found a
scorpion that was embraced, he put it into a box and wen he was finish to it,
he opens the box and it was a lot of small scorpions. Gerry’s mum decide that
he have to study more French.
Chapter 10: in the spring came
to the village one teacher called Peter. Gerry has a room where he can save his
animals. In summer the family bathed on the bitch that was a lot of dolphins,
and in the night all the sky was covered of fireflies.
