The books structure is orientation, complication, rise in action, climax and resolution. The corresponding parts are “Jim McLeod wrote to his mother and his mother and his sister Edith. He said nothing about the day to come, nor the mud and the rats. He didn’t mention the piles of stretchers waiting for the dead and wounded…”. “Jim was frightened. In thirty minuets’ time he had to climb out of a deep trench in the ground and advance towards the enemy. They would try to kill him. Hr might have to kill some of them.” - “Ten minutes to go. Still silence. Some of the men were praying. Suddenly, from far behind, one gun fired. Then –BOOM! BLAM! – the world seemed to explode. Thousands of huge guns roared and crashed. Frank called out and pointed at the sky. Jim saw the …show more content…
‘You’ll be okay.’ The German opened his eyes again. ‘Danke, Tommy.’ Jim knew that ‘danke’ meant ‘thank you’ – and ‘Tommy’ was what the Germans called soldiers on his side.” … “More dirt rolled down the side of the shell hole. Jim looked up, and held his breath. A black shape stood on the edge, staring down. A friend, come to help him? An enemy, come to kill him? No, not a soldier. A dog. Nipper!” - “They reached the big hospital tents. ‘Enemy troops over there,’ a soldier told them. ‘Wait,’ said Jim. He walked across to where Karl lay on the stretcher and put the poppy down beside him. ‘Good luck,’ he said. Karl lifted a blood-stained hand held Jim’s. ‘Danke, Jim’. The main characters within this book are Jim McLeod who is a young soldier, Nipper the messenger dog and Karl the German soldier. Some of the other characters are Frank, Matiu, Germans, Jims Mum and sister and Karl’s wife and kids. The setting is the Western front in France which is a world war one battle. The underlying message in The Red Poppy is that even thou you are going through things are hard now they get better. The people you thought as enemy’s may be the nicest people ever, because they are just like you,