Private Peaceful - Summary of chapters 4+5

Hello! Here I am again! I hope you enjoyed reading the first part of this blog. This is now the second post that I am going to post, and I hope you enjoy it.

In the moment the story is getting far more interesting. Charlie Peaceful steals the foxhound, Bertha from the Colonel, and then the whole village doesn't want to communicate and 'don't want to know them'. There are a lot of different changes which are good but also sad and bad! The story is still very exciting and catches the readers attention!

In chapter 4, quite a few changes already start to develop. Starting at the beginning of the story. Tommo remembers that when they were with Molly the luck was on their side; but the luck had left them since Molly got sick with the scarlet fever. The first time Charlie and Tommo went poaching from the colonel's field - without Molly - Tommo accidentally fell asleep on his lookout duty. This meant there was a greater chance of getting caught by the Colonel's lookout Lambert. This was the first time their luck had left them, because Charlie and Tommo got caught by Lambert - with his two dogs - that wasn't all. The colonel's lookout escorted both of them to the house of the colonel. Both Charlie and Tommo had to apologize for trespassing. Their punishment was to clean the kennels every single Saturday until Christmas.

Nearly at the end of the chapter the luck comes back to Charlie and Tommo, because Molly gets better again and they can see each other again. Molly also comes to school again. After Tommo's 12th birthday, Molly and Charlie find work at the Big House - House of the colonel - and leave school. Tommo doesn't see Charlie and Molly that much anymore, he can only see them at night. He starts feeling left out because, the stories he tells about school don't really seem to interest Molly and Charlie anymore. They tell him stories about the Big House, but Tommo doesn't seem to understand them; which is another reason why he feels left out. Every time Tommo goes to see Charlie and Molly they always hold hands; which makes him jealous. At the end of chapter 4, Charlie comes home and tells everyone that he had stolen Bertha, because the colonel wanted to shout her.

After chapter 4 everything gets quite complicated and also exciting!

In chapter 5, Charlie has already stolen Bertha and hidden her in the forest where the colonel can't find her; but the colonel is not dumb and had noticed that Bertha was missing. He knew - right away - where to look for her, which was at the house of the Peaceful's. He knew that Charlie had her. Charlie wants to protect Bertha and doesn't tell the colonel where the dog is. Charlie's mother persuades the colonel, to sell Bertha to them; or rather just buys Bertha off from the colonel. After the colonel left the house, they all go to the forest to get Bertha and bring her home. From that moment on, Bertha and Big Joe did everything together; Bertha was even allowed to sleep in Big Joe's bed.

Something else happens in the chapter, Molly stops visiting Charlie and Tommo; and they don't know why. They both have an idea what happened. They knew it had to do something to do with the colonel and Molly's parents. And this was the case. It wasn't only the colonel but the wolfwoman as well. They had both told the parents of Molly, that the family Peaceful where thieves and are no longer people to communicate and to talk to. Charlie didn't care what the colonel said, and would always go and visit Molly; but nobody would ever open the door when he rang the bell or knocked. Charlie decided that Tommo might have a better chance to see Molly, and help Charlie and Molly to communicate with one another. This worked out quite well, Tommo and Molly would meet nearly every day, they always had a place in the forest where nobody could see them. They would always talk about the colonel and the wolfwoman, and how much they both hated them. They also started exchanging letters, which was a huge mistake, because Molly's mother ends up finding the letters. This wasn't everything, she started a rumor that the letter were love letters. Charlie feels betrayed and sad, because Tommo wasn't the only boy who liked Molly; it was Charlie who loved her as well. This made him sad, because he finds out that they meet behind his back. Charlie only wanted that Tommo is the messenger of him and Molly; and he never wanted Tommo to do something else. At the end of the chapter something more horrible and sad happened, one day Charlie and Molly find Bertha; dead, shot by the colonel. Molly brakes down and sits next to Bertha with tears in her eyes, asking the colonel for the reason. The reason why Bertha had to be killed!

I hope this post caught your attention again, and I hope you enjoyed it! There is going to be more of summary of the chapters coming in the next few days. See until next time.

Marie-Louise