What is peace? If you look it up in the dictionary, the word is described as: “Absence from war and violence”. If you as the little boy in this story, have been born in the middle of a war and growing up in the post-war surrounded by soldiers. You can imagine, that it might be difficult, to know the word: peace, and have a critical opinion about the war and the soldiers, when you never have experienced a peaceful city without soldiers and a city in ruins all around you.
The story takes probable place in a ruined city in the post-war Europe. We meet an old man and a little boy, who have lived in secret without documents or anything. The day the war ended, a refugee woman left the boy in the old man’s arms. The old man knows nothing official about the boy, as his name, birth date and so on. The old man has been taking care of the little boy for the last six years.
The old man works as a kind of father for the young boy. He is a very kind and giving person, because he has been raising the boy, even though he is not his own child. It is actually not his responsibility to raise and take care of the boy the woman left in his arms, but as the good-natured person he is, he has off course not left the child, but instead giving him the best possible life during these bad conditions. The old man seems to just be looking for some peace and quiet. The peace there was before the war started. That peace has the young boy never experienced. The old man wants therefore to bring the little boy into the forest, to a place there is quiet and peaceful. When they arrive to the place, the old man says:
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