My family and other animals

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.