Faber sacrifices his own life and Germany’s last chance to win the war for his love, for Lucy.

I think the dramatic between love and the live of a spy is very interesting.

Another fact is that this story could be real, maybe it happened nearly like its written in the Thriller of  Ken Follett. My personal opinion is, that Ken Follett is one of the greatest writer and I like every book of him, especially “Eye of the Needle”. I hope you get inspired of my report to read Ken Follett and my personal tip is the book “The Pillars of the Earth”.

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Farber had the mission to discover the Allies’ landing plans, an incompetent German agent brought him the message, he killed him immediately.

Thereupon, Faber tries to finish his mission and took the pictures of the fake building.

There was only an army of plastic, during this action he has to kill a few peoples like some home guards.

The killing gets Goodwin close on Faber’s tracks, and the British realise that the entire success of the impending D-Day depends upon capturing Faber before he gets his photos to Germany.

Thereupon follows a long chase across Northern England and Scotland, while Farber tries to get the photos to a German U-boat in Aberdeen.

Already driven nearly to the end of endurance, Faber finally sets out on a small trawler, but gets caught and shipwrecked in a fierce storm, barely managing to get on the shore of Storm Island.

On this lonely Island he met Lucy and David. Lucy becomes physically engaged with Faber, though he seems to really come to love someone for the very first time in his life.

If you want to know how the story ends, you have to read the book.

Lucy: is the wife of  David. She/they have a three year old son and live on a lonely island.

For Lucy didn’t exist a sexual live, after the accident of her husband. This situation turns when Faber appeared on the island.

David: a handsome young Royal Air Force pilot who married Lucy. But he was taken out of the war because of an accident where he lost both legs. After this accident David grows embittered and never touches his wife again

Godliman and Bloggs: The Prof. Percival Godliman and ex-policeman Fredd Bloggs are employed to trace that spy for the MI5.

Ken Follett was born in Cardiff, Wales, on the 5th of June, 1949

His family moved from Cardiff to London when he was ten years old. Later Ken went to University College London, where he studied philosophy. At the first semester he married his first wife Mary and Ken’s first child (Emanuele) was born in July 1968.

In September 1970, just out of university, Ken got a place on the graduate journalism course run by Thompson Regional Newspapers.

In 1973, Ken and Mary had a daughter, Marie Claire. That’s the second and last Child of Ken Follett. Ken became increasingly frustrated with his job at the Evening News and began to write.

In 1978 Ken had his breakthrough with the book Eye of the Needle. It was a big success and was sold over 10 Million times, it also won the Edgar-Award. This book makes Ken to a bestseller author. Until now Ken wrote 17 books like: The Pillars of the Earth, A Dangerous Fortune, The Third Twin, Jackdaws, World Without End…

Today his one of the most selling and famous author in the world and I hope he will make another chartbreaker.

Aldous Leonard Huxley was born on the 26th of July in 1894 and died on the 22nd of November in 1963. Aldous Huxley was a famous English writer and a member of the famous Huxley Family. Born in Godalming, surrey in the UK he was the son of his father Leonard Huxley and his mother Julia Arnold. Huxley attended school in Hillside, then he was educated at Eton College. In 1908 his mother died and in 1911 he started to suffer from an illness which made him blind for more than 2-3 years. That was exactly the reason why Huxley could not participate in World War 1. Finally, he studied English literature at the Balliol College and even gave classes. Huxley’s first novel was completed at the age of seventeen. However, this novel was unpublished. It was this time when he started to think about science that is generally dehumanizing mankind. His most famous novel Brave New World appeared in the 1932 and is today a challenging classic. In 1937 the author moved to South California with his wife Maria and his son Matthew. He now started a life in the US and mainly lived there till his death. Furthermore, he published Ends and Means in 1937 and again focuses on civilization. After World War 2 Huxley applied for US citizenship but was not intending to take up arms for the US. That is why he did not get the US citizenship. However, he remained in the country. Then his wife Maria died in 1955 and one year later he married Laura Archera, who was also an author. In 1960 Huxley was diagnosed cancer and died in 1963. In the meantime he wrote lots of different stories. He also wrote about philosophical topics and published dramas, short stories and poems. But it was the novels which made him famous and an honorable writer.

Here is a complete list of Huxley’s most important works:

Novels

* Crome Yellow (1921)
* Antic Hay (1923)
* Those Barren Leaves (1925)
* Point Counter Point (1928)
* Brave New World (1932)
* Eyeless in Gaza (1936)
* After Many a Summer Dies the Swan (1939)
* Time Must Have a Stop (1944)
* Ape and Essence (1948)
* The Doors of Perception (1954)
* The Genius and the Goddess (1955)
* Island (1962)

Short stories

* Limbo (1920)
* Mortal Coils (1922)
* Little Mexican (U.S. – Young Archimedes) (1924)
* Two or Three Graces (1926)
* Brief Candles (1930)
* Jacob’s Hands: A Fable (Late 1930s, rediscovered 1997) co-written with Christopher Isherwood
* Collected Short Stories (1957)

Poetry

* Oxford Poetry (editor) (1916)
* The Burning Wheel (1916)
* Jonah (1917)
* The Defeat of Youth (1918)
* Leda (1920)
* Arabia Infelix (1929)
* The Cicadas (1931)
* First Philosopher’s Song

Travel writing

* Along The Road (1925)
* Jesting Pilate (1926)
* Beyond the Mexique Bay (1934)

Drama

* The Discovery (adapted from Francis Sheridan, 1924)
* The World of Light (1931)
* Mortal Coils – A Play (stage version of The Gioconda Smile, 1948)
* The Genius and the Goddess (stage version, co-written with Betty Wendel, 1958)
* The Ambassador of Captripedia (1967)
* Now More Than Ever (University of Texas, Austin, 1997)

Essay collections

* On the Margin (1923)
* Along the Road (1925)
* Essays New and Old (1926)
* Proper Studies (1927)
* Do What You Will (1929)
* Vulgarity in Literature (1930)
* Music at Night (1931)
* Texts and Pretexts (1932)
* The Olive Tree (1936)
* Words and their Meanings (1940)
* The Art of Seeing (1942)
* The Perennial Philosophy (1945)
* Science, Liberty and Peace (1946)
* Themes and Variations (1950)
* Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow (1952)
* The Doors of Perception (1954)
* Heaven and Hell (1956)
* Adonis and the Alphabet (1956)
* Collected Essays (1958)
* Brave New World Revisited (1958)
* Literature and Science (1963)

Philosophy

* Ends and Means (1937)
* The Perennial Philosophy (1944)

Biography and nonfiction

* The Devils of Loudun (1953)
* Grey Eminence (1941)
* Selected Letters (2007)

Children’s literature

* The Crows of Pearblossom (1967)
* The Travails and Tribulations of Geoffrey Peacock (1967)

Collections

* Texts and Pretexts (1933)
* Collected Short Stories (1957)
* Collected Essays (1958)
* Moksha: Writings on Psychedelics and the Visionary Experience (1977)
* The Human Situation: Lectures at Santa Barbara, 1959 (1977)

The first main character is a twelve years old boy called Marcus. Marcus has many problems at home and at school. He lives with his mother Fiona in London, because his parents divorced. Fiona is depressive and one day she tries to kill herself. So Marcus is very afraid, that his mother dies and he would be alone. At school he has no friends, because he is very shy and most of the kids laugh at him because in their opinion he wears uncool clothes and has the wrong haircut.

The second main character is Will Freeman a 36 years old bachelor who never had to work for his money because his father writes a Christmas song and now he lives from the income from the royalties of the song. Most of his time he spends with smoking, watching TV, listening to albums and looking for women.

Their first meeting is in a park where Marcus kills a duck. Will helps him and tells the park-keeper, that the duck was dead, before Marcus threw a big sandwich on it. Since that time Marcus visits Will every day and a funny friendship begins. Will helps Marcus to fit into the modern world. He takes him shopping, buys him shoes and introduces him to the music of Nirvana. Marcus likes a girl in his class who‘s called Ellie . She is a fan of Kurt Cobain and after his death she is very sad and Marcus tries to help her in her sadness.
Will meets a woman called Rachel, he falls in love with her. She has a son who is about the same age as Marcus
In the end, Marcus evolves into a “normal” child for his age and Will ends up wanting to marry Rachel. Therefore, both Will and Marcus have started to live according to their age.

About a boy – the author

Nick Hornby is an English novelist and essayist. He was born on the 17. April 1957 in Redhill, Surrey, England. He was brought up in Maidenhead and was educated at Maidenhead Grammar School and Jesus College, Cambridge. His parents divorced when he was eleven. Now he lives in Highbury, in North London with his wife and his son. Hornby was first published with the book “Fever Pitch“. “High Fidelity“, his second book was published in 1995. His third novel, “About a Boy“, published in 1998. With the book’s success, Hornby began to publish articles in the Sunday Times, Time Out and the Times Literary Supplement. Besides he works as the pop music critic for The New Yorker.

About a boy – reading impression

In my opinion the book “About a boy” is funny, but it’s more attractive to younger people.
I like the relationship between Marcus and Will, because they helped each other with their problems and in the end both Will and Marcus have started to live according to their age.

Minor Charakters:

George:
The most importent person besides Blaze. He was like a father for Blaze in his adult-life. Told him to change his clothes to breash his teath, told him how to cook and clean and most important told him like to steal and betray.
He capitalized Blaze, but never betrayed him. He died before the story started and all we know about him is out of Blazes memory.

John:
Blaze first friend, what means the first one who know how to capitalize Blaze. He lived with Blaze in the orphanage and died with the age of 14.
He was smart and invalid and loved Blaze for being his cover.
When he died Blaze was coverless delivered to the Jurist.

The “Jurist”:
The Jurist was the conductor of the Hetton House (the orphanage).
He was the first real enemy Blaze ever had. He tries to defeat Blaze psychological, by telling him how worthless and silly he is. He never wanted Blaze to have a real chance and abused him uncountable times.

Officer Sterling:
He leads the investigations against Blaze after the hijacking and he`s also the guy who finally killed him.
He symbolisized perfectly the society which never gave Blaze a chance.
He didn`t want to know anything about Blazes past, didnt want to hear any apologizes for his behavior.
He just saw what Blaze did in the two days of his investigations and killed him finally ineroxable, by standing over the paralysed Blaze shooting in his head.
In a normal book, he would be the shiny hero to identify with, but in this one he is just another grey gradation.