![]() ![]() I also loved the way each of the characters lives intertwined as the book went on: it seems like a very well thought out plot and storyline. ![]() I thought that including the dog’s point of view as well as each of the children was eye-opening and because he was treated so badly, it is heart-warming when he is shown kindness. I think the contrast of his nature and his dreams with the world and the life that he is pushed into increases your empathy with him because although they fly planes and bomb England, Erik and Hans are both still quite young and still dream of owning a zoo in Berlin. I especially enjoyed Erik’s slight eccentricity and from the first page you are drawn into his character with him buying dead flies from his classmates to feed baby birds. Erik and Hans don’t believe that what they are doing is right but they are almost forced into flying the planes. ![]() I liked this because it showed that not all Germans believed in what they were fighting for and not all of them were inherently bad just because they found themselves fighting on the Nazi side. I think this is really interesting because most books I’ve read about World War 2 have been telling the story of English people or Jewish people that had to escape Hitler rather than people actually fighting for the Nazis. The Swallows' Flight by Hilary Mckay is a great book about two German boys and two English girls growing up during WW2. ![]()
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