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Long Way Home, written by Michael Morpurgo, follows George, an orphan who finds a sense of belonging with the Dyer family during a summer stay. The story explores themes of friendship, family, and personal growth as George navigates challenges and ultimately secures a permanent home. The review praises the book for its emotional depth and relatable characters, highlighting Morpurgo's skill in storytelling.

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Long way home semester assignment

Long Way Home, written by Michael Morpurgo, follows George, an orphan who finds a sense of belonging with the Dyer family during a summer stay. The story explores themes of friendship, family, and personal growth as George navigates challenges and ultimately secures a permanent home. The review praises the book for its emotional depth and relatable characters, highlighting Morpurgo's skill in storytelling.

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Long way home

By: Malavika Harish, Secondary 1


Long Way Home: The review

Character List

George: The protagonist, a boy with no proper home. He is aloof and is quite
quiet at first.

Mr and Mrs Thomas: The owners of the orphanage

Mr and Mrs Dyer: The family who fosters George during the summer. The
owners of the farm.

Storme: The eldest child of Mr and Mrs Dyer.

Tom: The youngest child of Mr and Mrs Dyer.

Jemina: The cow who likes chewing on anything she can get her hooves on
(AKA the star of the show).

The Introduction

The story starts with a boy named George who is an orphan. The heads of the
orphanage are Mr and Mrs Thomas. George has known them for as long as he
can remember. Every summer, George is sent to a different house, where he is
always quiet and aloof.

The Continuation

One summer, George is sent to another house, the Dyer family. There was Mr
and Mrs Dyer who owned the farm and their two children Storme, the oldest
and Tom, the youngest. The morning before George arrived, during breakfast
Tom was fussing about George coming to their home as the foster children in
the previous summers where a total reck.

When George arrived, Mr Dyer took the case from Mrs Thomas’s hands.
Storme was the first to greet George and she even took him around the farm to
meet Tom. Down a slope was tom with the cows whom were grazing on the
grass. The two boys could not bring themselves to talk to each other and stood
there awkwardly as Jemina started chewing on George’s trousers. Tom pushed
Jemina back into the fence, she didn’t know she was unwanted. After a long day
of hard work and tons of new prickly splinters on Georges fingers and tips they
all sat down for tea. Afterwards, Mr Dyer asked George in case he wanted some
money and George felt dis hearted, he finally found a place which felt different.

The next morning, George, Tom and Storme were out in the fields again, when
it started to drizzle which then led to a full-blown storm. The children were lost
in the mist trying their hardest to get the sheep’s back into their barns but then,
Storme broke her ankle while George and tom had to take turns carrying her.
After the storm cleared, Storme was taken care of for her ankle and George was
taken back to the orphanage because the farm wasn’t safe for him.

After a lot of persuasion from George, Mrs Thomas finally realized that the
farm was Georges forever home and after few months of signing contracts he
was officially “George Dyer” and when he met them again, they all hugged and
lived a somewhat happily ever after.

The review

Long Way Home by Micheal Morpurgo is a wonderful story as its portraits an


amazing plot and happy endings which is underrated in my opinion. I really
enjoyed spending my time reading this story during class. The genre for this
story was for sure realistic fiction as the story as it is isn’t real but similar cases
have happened in real life. The story itself, tackles many complex subjects a
rollercoaster of emotions such as friendship, family relations, love and fitting in.
The characters had strengths and weaknesses like real people do. I felt like I got
to know the children well. The story hooked me and I always wanted to read on
to find what was going to happen next.

About the author:

Michael Morpurgo is a British writer born in St. Alban’s in 1943 is best


known for his children's novels. Whom has written over 130+ books and 5 of
which have been adapted into films and plays.

-Malavika Harish, Secondary 1

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