THE GHOSTS OF IZEU by Carlos

THE GHOSTS OF IZIEU

This book was written by James Watson. He is a succesfull writer. He has written plays for radio but most of his books are for younger people. His most famous book is talking in whispers which is a hard criticism of dictatorships, especially the Pinochet dictatorship in Chile.

The Ghosts of Izieu is about a girl, her name is Elise. Elise is in a village in French with her father Steve and her stepmother Carol on holiday.

Carol enjoys painting and Steve loves studying about history, especially the history of World War II.

One day Elise woke up in her bedroom. She was in her bed and she saw children were getting in military lorries. It this possible? Are they ghosts?

After she met a strange boy, Stephen “he works at the farm, in Loniloz”. When Stephen went away she came in a cold church then she began a strange trip. She didn’t know if she was living in 1944 or if she was living at present.

Suddenly, a woman, Sabina, appeared in the church. Sabina made a mistake, she thought Elise was Eloise. Sabina held out Elisa’s arm and they went quickly to the farm in Loniloz.

In the farm there were a lot children, one of them looked like Stephen. Also they thought Elise was Eloise.

Were the same children Elise saw in her bedroom? The children were hidden because they were afraid of Gestapo. She knew Gestapo did to people because her father had told her. She also thought her life was in danger. At night, she ran away from this farm and she was injured. In the morning Gestapo arrived at the farm and they took the children into military trollies.

Is this a book about ghosts? Why ghosts appear? I think ghosts appear because they don’t want we forget them, and I think the autor of this book wants to tell us “Not to forget it”. We can’t, we mustn’t forget what happened in WWII, especially what happened to the Jews. So I think everyone should read this book.