User:Brandonstrothers/Student Draft of The Boys from St.Petri

Neal Leslie Cameryn Murchison Haley Brandon Strothers

Characters
Lars Balstrup the main character of the book, lives as a younger brother in a family of four. Alongside his older brother Gunnar and his friends, they fight to defend their home in Denmark against Nazi rule. He is the one who discovers a German Luger (Reuter; 27) and would later learn to use it while running from the Gestapo men (Nazi police) (Reuter;208). Gunner Balstrup:The brother of Lars he is the leader of the group and he is also the oldest.He is a strong at heart and keeps his word.Gunner also as a girlfriend that he plain on to marry after the war that one reason he wants to stop the war.So he just want to get his life every thing to be peaceful but he doing it his way. Otto Hvidemann A young boy who’s father was killed in a war and helps his mother raise his two younger sisters, having to help support his family he has job working at a brickyard. He hates the Germans who are trying to take over Denmark and will try anything to sabotage or kill some of the soldiers. Soren: Is one of The St. Petri boys club founders, until getting kicked out for arguing with Gunner about all the things the club was doing and how it was against the belief of the club Luffy is one of Gunnar’s friends whose father works as the railroad manager. When he gets excited his speech is slurred. And when the St.Petri group decides to carry out the plan to blow up the railroad tracks, Luffy thinks the plan is too dangerous. He is somewhat cautious of the risk taking plans of the group. Irean: Irean is Gunners girlfriend at the beginning of the novel but later on turns down Gunner when he asks her to marry him. Lars has a crush on Irean and tells her he loves her and she loves him back. Axel Terkelsen An older brother and a new recruit to the club of St.Petri who cares for his family. When the boys were executing there last sabotage “Axel had more on his mind: his sisters dollhouse” (Reuter; 203) which shows that he has a sensitive side along with his devious side that helps him to participate in the clubs mischievous adventures. Rosen is one of Lars’s friends who is in the St.Petri group. He is from Sweden. Because he is Jewish, he lives with Lars and his family. And has an unnamed girlfriend who lives in Sweden. Sevend Hansen the man that everyone thought left town but then he was there in the church without his badge and his black cap.Theen he walked in front of gunner  and told him he a talented  young man face to face.He also told him he haves a great future ahead of him.Then he told lars to holds whats dear to him even if means death then he left. Kirsten Halling:Is the doctor's daughter. She does not play a big role in the the book but we do now that she likes Lars.But Lars does not know this he just see a girls following him around town and looking at him. Dr.Halling Is an older man who is father to Kirsten Halling and a “ Nazi sympathizer” (Reuter; 138) who is aware that Lars, Otto, Gunner, Luffy, and Soren all have something to do with the explosions and fires at the airfield. He is also a doctor who enjoys listening to th daily German marching band that most people dislike because they are exerting there presence.

Plot

 * Summer 1942

Lars is trying to get into a club called the St. Petri group, which solders  is against the Nazis and Adolf Hitler taking over Denmark. He has to go through an initiation test, support the weight of the church’s chandelier without dropping it, in order to join. And meanwhile, Lars finds a German Luger (gun) which was stolen by a boy named Otto Hvidemann ,who later joins the St.Petri group. After Lars succeeds entry into the group the boys plan there first true sabotage to the German headquarters.

The fall is when the boys plan to go and steal some bombs from the German headquarters so they can later use it to blow up the railroad tracks that will carry the Germans machinery for the war but when they got there things went wrong. A phone started to ring and when they tried to stop it they tripped over one another and set off an alarm.The Germans then started to come investigate what all the noise was about so the boys had to run. Everything then happened very quickly, everyone started to run then they sent the dogs to go and search for the intruders, in the mist of all the confusion Otto stole a rifle and sub-machine gun and helped Gunner and Luffy stuff Gunners backpack with bombs that were hidden in the German headquarters and brought it back for the club to use later on. When the Germans attack dog was let loose it came running at Lars he got scared and he felt he had to fire the luger and shot the dog in the head. when the shot fired it caused the Germans to think they were getting shot at opposed to the dog.They started to fire at them.So the boys had no other choice but to shoot back at them and when they did more Germans came running and by the end of tight many German's were shot. When they were about to leave a young German boy who was unarmed and was on they ground saying don't kill me .The boys were going to but Lars told them that they could not or it would make them like the Germans. As they were leaving Otto got shot in the arm.
 * Fall 1942

They took Otto to Dr. Halling for help but the man said no because he suspected what the boys had been up to and that they were the saboteurs all the other times that. Gunner Then put the gun to his head and told him “I personally, have shot ten Germans tonight. So one more isn’t going to make much difference.” (Reuter 138) The doctor finally complied to the boys requests and patched up Otto's arm, and as they were leaving Guner said if you tell any one your are dead. All the boys got on there bike and rode to the brewery where they sat against the wall talking and listening to the sounds of the sirens from the German airfield at they had triggered hours before, Luffy’s words were already beginning to slur so even though they had only been ere f a short time they decided to congratulate one another and head home

The next day at school all the boys who where there got called to line up at the front of the where German solders were standing and waiting. The young boy solder who they had let live the previous day was also with the men and this made Lars and Gunner very nervous. The men started to walk the younger boy down the row of boys as he searched there faces on by one. Then the boy caught Lars eye and gave him a knowing look as if they were on the same side. Lars fidget nervously and the men neared and soon he was standing in front of Lars but he passe him without a second glance. The young boy did the same to Gunner, Luff, and Soren, passing them pretending that he had never see the boys.


 * Winter 1942

Lars and Gunner went to the church to fit new candles into the pews, when they saw Sevend (Suckerfish). Gunner stood in front of Sevend and Sevend was drilling him with questions like “Are you a man of your country” and “Do you feel Danish”.(Reuter 177) The Nazi german does not intimidate Gunner or his little Brother when he starts threatening them with bad intentions, and discretely telling them he knew what the boys were up to.

Lars and The St. Petri Group were all afraid of the outcome of what they are about to do. All the boys planned to sneek away from the school play and run to the railroad tracks where a large train would arrive with a lot of important military mishenery and the boys were set strategically around the railroad which they had set with a bomb to go off when the train with military machinery inside it was near. they had Axel positioned at the top of the hill with a bright flashlight to signal when the train came into view and the boys anxiously waited for this signal. Finally the boys saw the signal and were about to set off the bomb there cover was compromised and suddenly they were surrounded by German solders who immediately started shooting at them. Luffy was mortified and unable to run so Gunner and Lars grabbed onto him and began to pull him away from the ruckus. Then Lars noticed that Otto was not with them and turned to see him running toward the train tracks to manually set off the bomb. Lars yelled to him to forget about it but Otto did not listen, he was insisting on setting off the bomb and ran faster towards the tracks. Lars then saw Otto reach the tracks just as the train was about to reach the area that was set with bombs. Then there was a large explosion and the train fell off the tracks. The boys then all ran separate ways, Gunner went to the cafe in the woods, Axel went home, Otto ran towards the brick yard, and Lars ran to the school.

When Lars arrived at the school he went to find Irean and tell her how he truly felt about her, when he found her they sat down on a bench and told her that he loved her, right as Lars told Irean he would never leave her Sevend walked into the room and called to Lars, pulling him away from Irean and telling him he was under arrest. Lars was placed into a cell and the next day united with the other group members as they were marched across the camp to a black armed car. Sevend walked over to them and Gunner asked him how he knew it was them. Sevend replied that he had found Gunners pipe at one of the scenes of the crime, and assumed that they had done all the other things as well. then Sevend walked away and the boys were forced into the car with other police men and as the doors were locked and the car began to move, driving them away from there home, Otto sounded a bell to signal that he had not been captured and that he was free and safe.