Vocabulary Enricher - The boy speaking as a man.

Morpurgo has written this novel in the narrative voice of an adult telling the story of a passage of his childhood. Although it is told as if it is happening at the time of reading, there is use of more complex vocabulary. This shows more of a reflection of the first person narrator.

Examples.

• Thinking back there was a regularity, a sameness about my childhood.
• The cave house was sparsely furnished.
• I would charge back into the sea and frolic as noisily, as provocatively as I could.
• The old man, the mad man, my persecutor.
• I was always disappointed of course, often dejected, but not yet completely despondent.