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Private PEaceful

Big Ideas

What relevance has this novel to our lives today?

life in 1914-1918

• No technology
• Society based on class
• Schooling was strict
• Society was religious

Games and hobbies

• Collecting bird eggs
• Playing conkers

Language Techniques

• Foreshadowing
• Alliteration-scrawny skeletal stirrings
• Simile-

Interesting words

• Blaspheming
• mourning
• Evict
• Pergatory
• dour

Interesting words

• Embellishments
• Limbo
• Evict
• Demented
• Futile

Big Joe

Charlie

• he fixes things for Thomas
• Willing to take a risk

Thomas

Mr Munnings & School

Molly

The Colonel

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War

society based on class

• Poor and rich separated
• Rich treat poor unfairly