Boekverslag : H.e. Bates - The Triple Echo
De taal ervan is Engels en het aantal woorden bedraagt 891 woorden.
De taal ervan is Engels en het aantal woorden bedraagt 891 woorden.
1. H.E. Bates
The Triple Echo
Penguin Books
1972
First published: 1970
Number of pages: 90
2. I chose this book because when I had to read a book that was made after 1954 and this was the first one I found that looked interesting to me.
3. Alice is a woman who lives on a farm. She lives there on her own, because her husband is the prisoner with the Japs. She doesn’t know if she will ever see him again. One night a young soldier comes to her house. His name is Barton. Alice invites him in for dinner and they become friends. From then on Barton visits every night. When he gets a week off he stays with Alice, at the end of the week he doesn’t return to the army. But nobody may aver find out that Barton is living there. So he disguises himself as a woman. he lets his hair grow and wears women’s clothes. He says that he is Alice’s sister. Then one day a sergeant comes to their house and invites them to come to a ance. Alice doesn’t want to and keeps saying that her ‘sister’ doesn’t want either. Then one day when she comes back from the village, the sergeant is inside and Barton has agreed on going to dance with him. The next morning the sergeant comes to pick up Barton. The sergeant had found out that Alice’s sister was Barton. When they are taking him away, Alice shoots the sergeant. While she does this she hears a triple echo.
4. There isn’t really a climax in the story, but if I do have to name one; it would be the end. This is the most exciting part in the entire book. The writer has tried, to raise a climax, by
keeping the characters anxious. They are afraid that someone will find out that Barton is a man and that he has left the army.
5. The Triple Echo, when Alice shoots the sergeant in the end; the sound of the gunshot ricocheted back against the hillside, and it made a sound like a triple echo.
6. Alice : She is a lonely woman, until she meets Barton. She loves him very much, and she cooks for him. She even dresses up for him. She doesn’t like living alone on the hill.
Barton: He is a soldier in the army. When he meets Alice he falls in love with her and he wants to stay with her. He decides that he will not return to the army. But for making this decision he has to live like a woman. Because nobody may find out that he lives here.
The sergeant: He is very persistent. He keeps asking Alice and her ‘sister’ if they want to come to the dance. After the dance he finds out that the sister is Barton And he comes to take him a way.
7. The theme of the book is being alone. Both people don’t want to be alone.
8. Herbert Ernest Bates, 1905 – 1974. During the second world war he was squadron leader at the R.A.F. He was a good story teller. He went to school at the Kettering Grammar School. His first book is called: The two sisters, which he wrote when he was 20. many other books followed. The Triple Echo is one of his last works. Bates also wrote some books on gardening, essays about country life ans some plays. His books have been translated into 16 languages. He married in 1931, had four kids, won the C.B.E in 1973 and die in 1974.
9. The moment were Alice shoots the sergeant is something I can image very good. If someone takes away a person you love you can do strange things. I wouldn’t shoot someone, but I can imagine that I’d be really angry.
The sergeant is someone I could compare to a person I know. This person keeps asking if you want to come with him to a dance when it’s obvious that you would rather not see him again for the rest of your life.
The moment when Alice realises that she is in love with Barton reminds me of a situation were I have been in.
10. I didn’t like the book at all. I spent 88 pages wondering if something was going to happen. And then at last the final 2 pages were a bit exciting. The rest was so boring that I didn’t want to keep reading it. I read another book by H.E. Bates, and I read a few poems of him. Those were definitely better than this book. I can see why this one was his last book.
11.C The story is told by a third person. He writes down what Barton and Alice say and he can also look inside the head of Alice. Sometimes he writes down what she thinks.
E. I think this story is a bit realistic, because of course this could have happened years ago, but I don’t think that someone would shoot another person that soon. I don’t think something like this could happen in real life.
G. It’s an adventurous story.
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