The protagonist is Abbas, who is the oldest brother who has to take care of his little brother Joshua while escape the air raid. Abbas has to remember what his father had told him about the air-raid shelter when he was young. The story is targeted to secondary year students and above, as the book is easy to be understood the targeted audience and is hard to understand by primary year students. …show more content…
The author uses variety of language techniques to create an image to the reader’s mind to display the events as the reader was at the scene “The scream of air dissipated, but in its place came a terrible groaning noise, an almost human expression of pain, though it was far louder than any human sound.” (Page 108-109) “The explosion shattered the whole street, smashing every house like a sledgehammer coming down on matchstick models.” (Page 108) “Another missile exploded close by, the ground shivering from the impact. More dust fell from the ceiling.” (Page 108) It is clear from the word choice of the author that proves that he uses variety of language techniques to create the image of sounds, feelings and