![]() ![]() Afterwards, his body seems more relaxed and Tom leaves him to sleep. It brings Willie back to life, but also makes him vomit severely. Tom opens a window and thrusts the boy's head out into the air. On his first day, Willie faints in his imagined fear that Tom is angry with him and is going to beat him with a fire poker. Upon first arriving, Willie expects that Tom will be just as abusive as his brutal mother, as that is all he knows. Tom has lost his wife and baby son over 40 years ago and has consequently become somewhat of a hermit, not participating in the usual town social activities. He is evacuated to a small village called Little Weirwold and is placed to live with a man named Tom Oakley, a gruff but kind widower in his 60s. For his whole life, he has been physically and emotionally abused by his religious mother, leading him to be extremely timid and fearful. Willie Beech is a scrawny eight-year-old boy from London. For this reason, children from the inner city are evacuated to the north of England where it is believed the threat from the Germans will be much more slight. ![]() It is believed that the main target of invasion from the sea will be the south coast, and the biggest threat of mass bombing raids from the sky will be in London. ![]() It is 1939, and England is poised on the edge of war with Nazi Germany. ![]()
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