1answer.
Ask question
Login Signup
Ask question
All categories
  • English
  • Mathematics
  • Social Studies
  • Business
  • History
  • Health
  • Geography
  • Biology
  • Physics
  • Chemistry
  • Computers and Technology
  • Arts
  • World Languages
  • Spanish
  • French
  • German
  • Advanced Placement (AP)
  • SAT
  • Medicine
  • Law
  • Engineering
lora16 [44]
2 years ago
15

Summary of The purple children​

English
1 answer:
Xelga [282]2 years ago
3 0

Answer:

Ellis Peters is the "pen name" of Edith Pargeter. As Peters, she wrote mostly detective fiction and used other names for other genres. The Brother Medieval Mysteries is probably her best-known in this category and was made into a TV series, The Brother Cadfael Chronicles. Influenced by her own involvement in the Second World War as a WREN (Women's Royal Navy Service), Pargeter also wrote historical novels and, after a visit to Czechoslovakia, Pargeter translated Czech poetry and prose.

Edith Pargeter's short stories include The Purple Children which is about the British occupation of Cyprus. A young eighteen-year-old British sentry is on duty one evening and is he startled from a sleepy state by a local girl of about fifteen. He overhears her calling her cat and urges her to return home due to the curfew imposed on the town. She insists that she must find her cat because it runs away; her cat cannot be told to observe the curfew.  

The girl pleads with the sentry, certain she can find her cat if he will just let her through the gate. He is aware that she is close to tears and considers his "orders," thinking that he must treat the "natives politely," especially as the locals blatantly show their hatred. He decides that this "waif" could not possibly pose a threat and, although he doesn't intend to, he opens the gate and lets her through, staying close to her. Turning his back on the gate he is supposed to be protecting, he follows her. When he sees the cat, he is relieved but it takes a further ten minutes before they can corner it and catch it. She thanks him and almost immediately the girl's real purpose is revealed as a boy jumps down from the flagpole and he and the girl run away, leaving the sentry boy in the courtyard and a commotion around him because he fired his paintball gun to stop the "fugitives." The children have replaced the British flag with their own.

Explanation:

Mark brainliest plz!

You might be interested in
Read the following sentence:
Lemur [1.5K]
C. Necessary is the answer
3 0
3 years ago
Read 2 more answers
Which detail from the passage best describes how Laura is affected when she
NISA [10]
I think it would be the one from paragraph 4, it shows laura has overheard what they were talking about and her mood changes and feels hurt
8 0
2 years ago
Read 2 more answers
Read the sentence. Synagogues usually have a large prayer hall, small rooms for study, and sometimes a social hall and offices.
MakcuM [25]
Synagogues are buildings where a Jewish assembly or congregation meets for religious worship and instruction.
6 0
3 years ago
Read 2 more answers
What's the definition of inane
Molodets [167]
It means to be silly or stupid.
Ex. "Don't constantly badger people with inane questions."
5 0
3 years ago
Half-Hanged Mary Questions.
Sindrei [870]

Answer:

women who milk cow?????

8 0
2 years ago
Other questions:
  • What is the correct meaning of the word novelty?
    13·2 answers
  • Chaucer wrote in Old English. True False
    9·1 answer
  • How did MLK job play a role in how he wrote his speech I have a dream
    9·1 answer
  • Brainliest for right awnser Which of the following sentences would not qualify as gender-neutral language?A.All people who would
    14·2 answers
  • Which word is defined as “improve the appearance of?”
    13·1 answer
  • Select the question mark. Then choose the sentence that
    12·1 answer
  • DESCRIPTION OF A ROOM!!!!
    9·1 answer
  • HELP TIMED GIVE BRIANLIEST TO FIRST PERSON
    7·2 answers
  • Why does Echo blame Judge for killing the cat?
    13·1 answer
  • What is a research paper? i. A research paper is an essay in which you explain what you have learned after exploring your topic
    5·1 answer
Add answer
Login
Not registered? Fast signup
Signup
Login Signup
Ask question!