Mail and the Detectives.

Name of book: Emil and the Detectives.

Presented by: Deema Mahajne.

Presented to my teacher: Sawsan Shehadi.

Class: 8″5″

Name of school: Middle School “Marah Al- Ghazlan”

Story ID:

Name of book: Emil and the Detectives.

Kind of story: novel

Writer: Erich Kastner biography

Year of publication: 1964

Settings & Characters

Settings:

Place: Berlin

Time:  summer(1928)

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Characters:

1-Emil Tischbein: Emil is a ‘good boy’ (though he has to try hard) who does as he’s told and worries what his domineering mother might think or say about him.

2- The Detectives: The detectives are a cheerful, thought argumentative bunch of local children who help Emil foil Grundeis and get his money back.

3-Mrs Tischbein: Comedy and poignancy define this character. She is organised, overbearing, continually instructing Emil what to say and do and goes on and on…and on.

4-Max Grundeis: Though dressed respectably enough, Grundeis is a thief who strikes a chord of unease in Emil from the beginning, making the reader wary of him too.

5-Pony: Emil’s show-off cousin with a bike is no shrinking violet, but for all her gusto and zeal she is not allowed to join in on the action because she is a girl and ‘nice girls’ go to bed early.

The plot of the story:

Traveling by bus to visit his aunt, Emil loses an envelope of money to sneak thief Grundeis (Heinz Schubert). The boy enlists the aid of a gang of young detective-story aficionados, led by Gustav, to locate the thief. This leads to a perilous adventure when it turns out that Grundeis is in league with an erudite master criminal known as The Baron (Walter Slezak), who is planning a major heist.

I’m recommend my friends a read the story“ Emil and the Detectives“.

I advise my friends to read the story because it is beautiful and reflects the cooperation that was between Emil and her friends, and it is a story that also expresses how Emil was subjected to theft and she looked for the thief until she found him and returned the money.