private peaceful summary

wishes to remain awakenight ahead meaningful to Tommobegins recollection of childhood with beginning of first day at schoolends with description of death of Tommo father which he fells responsible

doesn't want to eatmolly, a school friend, becomes like a part of the familyMrs Peaceful have to take a job caring the colonel's wife at the big house for them to stay in the tied cottagegrandma wolf moves in to look after the three boys while their mother is at work Tommo feels responsible for all the sadness because he feels he is responsible for his fathers death

sees a mouse and childhood memories continuetells about the battle he and charlie had with grandma wolf over mice in the house and grandma wolf's cruelty towards the childrenMrs peaceful loses her job when colonel's wife died. charlie, tommo and molly went poaching on the colonel's landgrandma wolf got her job back Mrs peaceful got a new job and they get to stay in the cottagecharlie and tommy forms a closer bond with molly . molly got scarlet fever

start with hoping there is heavengets caught when poaching punished by cleaning hunt kennelwhen they are cleaning the hunt kennel they becomes found of one foxhound called berthamolly returns and tommo tells us that his love deepens for hermolly and charlie leaves school and tommy fells left out a yellow airplane lands besides them and talks to themcharlie stole bertha as she is about to be shot by the colonel

at the start tommo refers to a lark now we know that tommo is a soldier in world war onein tommo's next recollection the colonel arrives at the cottage to find out what charlie has done to berthacharlie is dismissed from his job and Mrs peaceful pays six pence for berthaTommo leaves school and goes to work at farmer cox's farmbertha is shot by the colonel at Mr peaceful's old shack

Tommo see a new moon rising and wonders if people back home will also be seeing itbig joe went missing and the church bell would be rang if he is foundbig joe is found on the church tower where big joe seem to associate the tower with heaven

molly have charlie's babe and they are marriedtommo sees a military parade drumming up volunteersand a old lady calls him a coward for not joining the armycharlie have to enlist and if he didn't they will lose their cottage.

so charlie joins the army and tommo went with him

tommo wishes time would stand stilltommo recounts the process of joining up, the uniform that doesn't fit, the boots that is too big. he sees many lads he know at homecharlie and tommo suffers sea sickness on the journey to france and met by the scenes of the injured o the quayside when they arriveat staples they meet urgent horrible hanly and charlie suffers field punishment number one. tommo think of charlie as jesus on the cross and sings hymns to him

tommo regrets falling asleep and losing precious timehe recalls the time when the company left etaples and sing to keep the sprit uprecounts patrol in no mans land and their mission in to the enemy trench to capture a prisoner. captain wilkie is shot and injuredcharlie and tommo went to hospital to see captain wilkie but discovered that he is back in britain to recuperate . he also left charlie a gift for saving his life

tommo in the present reveals that he turned down help form other soldiers and padretommo feels abandoned by charlie as he is injured and is going to a hospital to recover

mourning arrives with fear of death but is not clear whosereads letter to pete because he have no letterscharlie returns and in the trench everyone fells safe agin because he is among them aginconstant shelling returns and tommo loses control and screams in terror

sixty five minutes remain and tommo question what he should do with the timehe is wounded in the head and is pinned down by enemy fire.horrible handy wants them to go but charlie wants to stay putcharlie talks to tommo about not making it back and making tommo promise to take care of mollycharlie is taken away but tommo doesn't see him for six weeks

tommo is given twenty minutes to see his brother before the death sentencecharlie insisted that tommo tells the truth when he gets homeat one minutes past six charlie is shot dead by the firing squad and tommo collects charlie's belongings and go to the burial