![]() Peter must learn that true courage means behaving in a way that is morally right, even if adults are telling you something different. ![]() Kim splints Erik’s twisted ankle, and Peter sneaks food out of his mother’s larder and gives him some of his father’s old clothes. The children decide to hide Erik, who doesn’t look like a monster to them, just a frightened young man in pain. He’s been taught that Germans are evil monsters he knows he should report him, but he doesn’t want the man killed in cold blood. Peter and his friend, the tomboy Kim, sneak out that night to look for souvenirs from the wreckage, but instead find an injured German airman. One of the Nazi airmen has escaped the crash, and Sergeant Wilkes sends soldiers to find him, making it clear that the man will be killed. ![]() Peter, aged twelve, playing in the woods, sees a German Heinkel in flames and glimpses a parachute. German warplanes frequently drop superfluous incendiary bombs after bombing Newcastle shipyards. ![]()
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