Milo's Wolves- last post

I have now read the whole book. I recently found out that there is three clones of Gwendal, and Laura and Milo travels back home from France without Gwendal. Eventually Gwendal comes back to England to his family. He starts school and he is happy.

Laura gets a friend, Marie-Claire and they get really close.


One day, Milo went to Nathan Culfire's house. There he ends up in a fight with him. It didn't turn out good, Milo ends up in coma but the book ends with him waking up.


I'm now going to talk about the language in the book.


In the book there is not so many hard words. But one thing is bothering me. It's bad paragraphing in the book, I can't really understand when there is a new day or a new time of the day because the text seems to be sticking together. The author only jumps in a bit on the row. She does that even when it is a new day, and that makes me confused. This doesn't have such a big impact on the story because you still understand what's happening, but I find it tremendously disturbing. Otherwise the language is quit good in the book, not to hard and not to easy.


In the end of the story everything goes very fast. On the 15 last pages Laura gets a friend, they get really close and Milo ends up in a coma and he wakes up. It's too much happening. It felt like the author just wanted to get a classic happy ending of the story and that made the end a big disappointment. It would have been better if Laura started to know Marie-Claire earlier in the book and if Milo didn't wake up from his coma. That would make the reader reflect more about the story I think.


Now I will talk about the mood that the author wants to create.


I think the author wants to create a special mood. She wants to create excitment and mystery. She creates excitment for example; when she lets the reader know that Jean tells something to Gwendal but the reader doesn't find out what he tells until later. The author creates mystery by just calling the book Milo's Wolves. That makes you think that there is some person who has a lot of wolves. But the truth is that there isn't wolves, instead it's persons who's being called wolves. I think the author wanted to create these special moods too give the reader a impression that Gwendal is mysterious.


I like the mystery and excitment in the book because It makes me want to read more.


// Anonymous

Milo's Wolves- third post

I have now read to page 184 in the book "Milo's Wolves" by Jenny Nimmo. It's still quit exiting.

From page 122 to 184 many exiting things have happened. It has been Christmas and McCool family missed Gwendal more then ever. But Christmas wasn't just a sad time for them. Milo had just got many jobs and that meant more money which meant more presents for the children.

After a while they found out that Gwendal is in France. One day they got a call from Jean Tisseyre that they have to come to his place. Milo and Laura began their journey to France! When they were there, Jean tells them that Gwendal is missing. Milo gets very upset.

Next day in Fort Saint-Luc Jean Tisseyre tells them a tragic story about his family. He said that Gwendal is a clone from Jeans son that drowned in a lake with his mother.

Now I'm going to tell about the persons who recently appeared in the story.

Jean Tisseyre:

Jean Tisseyre is Gwendal's father. He is quit old and he is tall and very straight for his age. His snow white hair is thick and he has a mustache in a style that is foreign. He wears dark clothes that has a rich velvety appearance. Jean has brown eyes and he has a strange gaze that concerns Laura. Jean always waits with telling the truth. He likes when people have to guess it. Jean is very rich. He owns a part of almost every company.

Jean used to have a son and a wife, Veronique. Sadly they died together in a lake. After that Jean is very sombre. I think he was much happier when his family was still alive.

First I got the feeling that Jean would do something bad to Gwendal when he came to France. But it's contrary, Jean is really nice. He is really trying to be a good father to Gwendal. Every time when Gwendal wants to play outside Jean is coming with him to watch him. I guess he is doing that because he doesn't want the same thing to happen Gwendal that happened to his other son. That shows that Jean Tisseyre is very protective. But still, I think it's something mysterious about this man...

I think it's good that Jean is in this story because he creates that mystery a story needs.

Nathan Culfire:

Nathan Culfire comes from the Society of Angel and he is trying to take Gwendal because he is an "Angel". Nathan has long black hair even though he is very old. He wears a grey fedora and a grey cloak. His eyes are hidden and Laura find him interfering, repulsive, threatening and odd. I find him odd but still nice. He actually helped an injured bird in the park once, and he helped Polly to get on her feet.

Nathan doesn't like when it is messy. I noticed that when he got very upset at Milo because it was messy in his house. Maybe he thought that a messy house isn't a home for an "angel" (Gwendal).

I don't really know what Nathan is doing in this story. The only thing he does is; come to the McCool family's house and say: "Give me Gwendal" or " Where is he?" and then he leaves because Milo says " Gwendal is ours!". He never does anything except that. It would be more exiting if he kidnapped Gwendal or something. I find Nathan useless in this story. But maybe he will do something in the pages I have left.

Raoul:

I think I could call Raoul Jeans assistant because he does everything for him. Cooking, cleaning and all sort of stuffs. Raoul has always been with Jean. When Jean lost his family he meet Raoul that also recently lost his family. Then he was just a kid so Jean decided to take care of him.

Raoul doesn't say much and he has a hard time accepting Gwendal because he has always felt like he is Jeans son and not Gwendal.

I like that Raoul is in this story because then you really get the image that Jean is rich because rich people usually have an assistant. // Anonymous

Milo's Wolves- first post

I have read to page 62 in the book Milo's Wolves by Jenny Nimmo. The book is about a family who is quite poor. The parents Mary and Milo tells their kids Laura, Polly and Andy one day that they have a long-lost brother. His name is Gwendal. What I know so far about this boy is that he comes from a clinic and he was very sick. What illness he had I haven't found out yet. He is also a "genius" and an "angel". Many wierd thing happens around him, one thing is that a strange man with a grey fedora follows Gwendal. The man says that he wants him.

Gwendal is quite mysterious. Yet, I haven't really found out who he is, just that he is a boy. It feels like he doesn't even know who he is himself. He is trying to fit in to this new family.

Gwendal is smart and caring. He is acctually building a robot all by himself. I noticed that he is caring when Pollys jacket got destroyed with alot of holes in it. Then he suggested that Polly should make more holes in it to make it look good to cheer her up. This also shows that Gwendal has a eye for fashion!

The main charachter in this novel is Gwendal but you're following Lauras thoughts and she tells about what happens. At first, when Laura heard about that she had another brother that was moving in with them, she was very skeptical. She didn't really know how to get used to be having a brother that just pops up like that. But as she gets to know Gwendal better she starts to see him as a brother. Milo and Mary tells Laura, Polly and Andy that it's their real son. Laura can see that Milo is lying because his eyes turns green. In that way Laura is special. As fast as Milo says something, Laura can see if he is lying or not just by looking at his eyes.

Laura starts to cry very easily, as fast as she open her mouth she starts to cry. Okay, she doesn't cry that much but in hard situations she cries. For example, when she, Polly and Gwendal was in the park one day they saw the man with the grey fedora. Laura and Gwendal started to go away but Polly was helping an injured bird. Then suddenly Laura starts to cry just because the man was getting closer and Polly didn't move from her position. She didn't even know the man, he was actually very nice. He helped Polly with the bird. That Laura cries often shows that she is weak. It makes the story annoying but at the same time nice. Usually in these kind of stories, the persons are always brave so I think it's good that Laura really show her feelings.

Andy is the oldest brother and the joker in the family. Always when they have serious conversations Andy puts in a humorous comment. Andy is crazy about hit two rats, Snow and Flake, but they are often running away so Andy has to chase them all around the house. Andy is also very gentle and nice. I noticed that when he offered Polly to have Snow and Flake in her room when she was sad. Andy loves his rats so it was very nice of him to let his sister borrow them.

Andy doesn't talk much with Gwendal. It seems like he has a hard time accepting him but at the same time he respects him.

Polly is a sweet girl. She loves animals and put a lot of efford to help them. For example, when the familys rabbit ran away Polly was devastated so she ran after him. Another example is when she helped the injured bird in the park. Polly is also not so good at listening. It happens the most when Polly is playing with the animals, then she is in her own little world.

Milo has many secrets that he hides by lying. When he is telling something he distorts the truth. I think he's doing it too protect his family.

Mary cares about her family, but I think she has problems seperate right from wrong. I notice that she doesn't wants to keep all this secrets from Laura, Polly and Andy, but she feels that she has to. It feels like Milo stops her from telling the truth...

// Anonymous