Blog #2

In the book Shadow by Michael Morpurgo, a little boy named Aman and his mom run away from Afghanistan hoping to get to England to seek asylum and stay at their uncle’s place. Six years after they get to England and seek asylum they are arrested and detained at a prison called Yarl’s Wood.  When they’re at the detention center, Aman and his mother were going to get shipped back to Afghanistan until Matt, Aman’s friend, and his Grandpa write an article in the paper telling people to come protest to stop Aman and his mother from getting shipped back. After hours of protesting with hundreds of people they finally get what they want: Aman and his mother can stay in England. Matt and his Grandpa are very persistent.

Matt shows that he is a very persistent person throughout the story. Matt is persistent because he wants his Grandpa to go see how his friend Aman is doing and he isn’t happy until his Grandpa does. This shows how persistent Matt is because he won’t give up trying to know how Aman is doing inside the detention center. Even though his Grandpa is scared, Matt will not let him go home until he goes inside.   Matt doesn’t give up when no one shows up to the protest, but soon friends and several families show up and the crowed gets bigger and bigger.

Grandpa shows that he is very persistent throughout the story.  He won’t  give up on Aman because he loves Matt. So when Matt wants to help Aman, so does Grandpa. Since Grandpa had been a news paper writer, he writes up an article and gives it to his old editor to put on the front page of the next day’s paper. Grandpa does this because Matt suggests it to try and get more people to know what is happening. After being up all night Grandpa and Matt go to the protest to help Aman.

The book is named after a dog named Shadow who helps Aman and his mom get out of Afghanistan. Shadow’s story is a lot like Matt and Grandpa’s story because Shadow would not let Aman and his mother down by letting them get hurt. He did this by leading them to safety.  Matt and Grandpa are a lot like Shadow because they also lead Aman and his mother to safety by fighting for them to be able to stay in England. So in all, Matt, his Grandpa and Shadow are very persistent.