-
The Silver Sword
In Chapter One, the plot involves Joseph Balicki's escape from prison in the mountains of South Poland. During the first winter of his incarceration, Joseph is too ill to attempt an escape. In the...
-
The Silver Sword
In the book, Margrit Balicki is Joseph Balicki's wife. Joseph is the principal of a school in Warsaw. Margrit is the mother of Ruth, Edek, and Bronia. In the narrative, Margrit Balicki is a loving...
-
The Silver Sword
Jan received the new wooden box from Ivan, a Russian soldier who worked at a command post in Warsaw. Ruth took Jan in after she found him in a desperate state. Jan introduced himself and Ruth...
-
The Silver Sword
In the story, Ludwig originally belonged to the Bavarian farmer, Kurt Wolff, and his wife, Frau Wolff. Jan takes a liking to Ludwig during the childrens' stay at the farm. By all indications, the...
-
The Silver Sword
Jan’s involvement in theft first emerges when he meets with Joseph Balicki. Joseph recognizes that Jan is a pickpocket. He, however, benefits from Jan’s theft when the boy gives him food stolen...
-
The Silver Sword
There are a lot of important quotes in The Silver Sword. Some of them are about the setting, some are about the characters, and some are about the themes. Let's begin with these four: In Chapter 4,...
-
The Silver Sword
Here are the important events from these two chapters in point form for you. In Chapter 17: Edek is still suffering from ill health so Ruth decides to stop travelling and rest for a week. The...
-
The Silver Sword
The old man and his wife harbored Joseph in their house despite knowing that Joseph had escaped from prison. The old man and his wife risked being arrested by harboring and aiding an escapee. Jan...
-
The Silver Sword
Edek was mistakenly charged for being part of a gang that robbed trains in the American zone. This happened after he followed Jan, who always brought them food in suspicious tins. Jan was involved...
-
The Silver Sword
As they made their way through Bavaria, the children made a stopover on a farm and decided to spend the night in a barn on the farm. The farmer discovered them in the morning as they slept. He...
-
The Silver Sword
According to the Enotes guide chapters 14-16 summary, the chimpanzee was sighted at the crowded cinema attempting to gain access to the building. This was the same cinema where the Balicki...
-
The Silver Sword
In the book The Silver Sword by Ian Surrailier, a farmer gives refuge to the main characters after discovering them hiding on his farm. The farmer, Kurt Wolff, has a sad gleam in his eye due to the...
-
The Silver Sword
We meet Mrs. Krause in the early chapters of the novel. She is the mother of a student who once attended Joseph's school; before his capture, Joseph had served as the principal at the school. After...
-
The Silver Sword
In The Silver Sword by Ian Serraillier, the children are separated from their mother, Margrit, when she is forcibly taken by Nazis to work in Germany. One of the children shot at the soldiers that...
-
The Silver Sword
The silver sword links the children (Ruth, Edek, and Bronia) to their father and symbolizes hope. The first mention of the silver sword is in chapter four. Their father, Joseph, returns to Warsaw...
-
The Silver Sword
Bronia is only three years old when her father, Joseph Balicki, is arrested and taken to a Nazi prison camp and her mother, Margrit, is taken away by German soldiers. Bronia and her two siblings,...
-
The Silver Sword
Edek was arrested by the Germans for smuggling food out of Warsaw in order to feed his siblings. Two years later and the siblings were yet to be reunited. It took information from a Russian...
-
The Silver Sword
The Nazi prison was located in Zakyna, south of Poland. This was brought out in the first chapter, where Joseph Balicki, a school teacher, turned Hitler’s picture to face the wall in his...
-
The Silver Sword
The story is set against a backdrop of destruction in Europe during and after World War II. Much of the early action takes place in Warsaw and other areas of Poland. The opening chapters describe...
-
The Silver Sword
Hello! In The Silver Sword, the Balicki family are trying to reunite with each other in the aftermath of WWII. Ruth, Bronia and Edek are the courageous Balicki children who try to find their...
-
The Silver Sword
Hello! When the Bavarian farmer discovers the children in his barn one July morning, he is not surprised. Kurt Wolff tells Ruth, Bronia, Edek, and Jan that they are not the first Polish refugees he...
-
The Silver Sword
Stealing is certainly a recurring motif and dominant theme in Ian Serraillier's The Silver Sword. In addition, Jan's stealing is often juxtaposed against the Balicki children's behavior and...
-
The Silver Sword
I think that you are going to have to make a critical choice in terms of how this is going to be written. From my own view, it seems to me easier to make a case as to why Serraillier's work is a...
-
The Silver Sword
The Silver Sword reveals such tragedies during World War II that it is VERY important that role reversal be present in this book! The best example of role reversal in The Silver Sword is how Ruth,...
-
The Silver Sword
In The Silver Sword Joseph's daughter is portrayed as having great emotional and moral resilience. Her caring yet firm actions show that she is dependable and can win the trust of others, thus...
-
The Silver Sword
It's really tough to find weaknesses in Ruth's character. If one were to be scrutinizingly unsympathetic, a weakness could be that Ruth does not operate out of a position of strength. She finds...
-
The Silver Sword
The general setting of Ian Serraillier's novel The Silver Sword is Warsaw, Poland, during WW II and after. Ruth, Edek, and Bronia Balicki are forced to survive on their own after their father was...
-
The Silver Sword
The children leave Warsaw along with many other refugees in search of Edek, Ruth's brother. While in Kolina receiving free soup and bread, one of the children trips spilling their meal. A mob...
-
The Silver Sword
eNotes offers a great study guide for this text which can be found in the link below. The text itself was published in 1956 making a work of modern literature. A more thorough historical background...
-
The Silver Sword
The final chapter of this famous children's classic, Chapter 29, entitled "The New Beginning," gives a very clear indication of the kind of future that the children enjoy now that they are safe in...
-
The Silver Sword
The Silver Sword is a paper knife that symbolizes the past and the family’s strength to move onward. This is the story of a Polish family during World War II. Before the war the family did well....
-
The Silver Sword
jan's treasure box symbolises hope and courage that the balicki family would someday be reunited and live an happy life
-
The Silver Sword
Ruth, Jan, and Bronia have decided to head for Switzerland, the land of Ruth and Bronia's grandparents, and they wanted to find Edek. They knew that Edek was in Posen, so they headed in that...
-
The Silver Sword
The Balicki children try to make the most of their situation by making do with what they have, but Edek has become involved with stealing supplies and provisions from the Nazi camps. The risk is...
-
The Silver Sword
In chapter 17, the family takes a break from traveling in a meadow because Edek is not feeling well. The main idea of a chapter is what the chapter is mostly about. This book is the story of a...
-
The Silver Sword
It is clear that Jan, although the novel does not divulge his past, is a child who has become so untrusting and bitter because of the hardships and sufferings he has been forced to endure. When...
-
The Silver Sword
A dominant theme in the novel The Silver Sword by Ian Serraillier is trust. The character Jan struggles to trust people in the aftermath of the war; in Joseph Balicki, he has found a mentor and...
-
The Silver Sword
sorry if i was late and sorry i did not figure out how does the characters develop thank you
-
The Silver Sword
The book didn't say so!
-
The Silver Sword
Edek and Bronia Balicki are siblings. They are pretty much orphaned in the slum of Warsaw when their father is sent to a concentration camp while their mother goes into forced labor. Although...
-
The Silver Sword
The themes in the Silver Sword are courage, faith, family, good vs evil, working as a team and never giving up hope
-
The Silver Sword
When Joseph Balicki gives Jan the sword, he tells Jan "I will give you the sword on one condition.... If ever you see Ruth or Edek or Bronia you must tell them about our meeting. Tell them I'm...
-
The Silver Sword
Joseph Balinki was confined in a prisoner of war camp in Zakyna by the Nazis for turning a picture of Hitler to the wall during a scripture lesson. Zakyna was in the mountains of South Poland. In...
-
The Silver Sword
The best way to explain how the silver sword is used as a symbol in The Silver Sword by Ian Serraillier is to direct your attention to what Jan tells Ruth on the night that Ruth realizes Edek...
-
The Silver Sword
THE SILVER SWORD realistically presents problems of war as seen through the eyes of a polish family torn apart by world war two. The novels main characters include three children Ruth, Edek and...
-
The Silver Sword
jan saved edek by pulling him out of his boat when he had fainted
-
The Silver Sword
ruth is edek and bronia's older sister. she is the daughter of jaseph and margret balicki. she is a honest, loving and responsible. she is honest because she never steals and always tells the...
-
The Silver Sword
Jan was a daring boy. he was small and therefore very quick in what he did. he stole food from the nazis and also from peoples pocket.
-
The Silver Sword
lol, no one answer...
-
The Silver Sword
A clout is a smack or slap. Apparently, Jan did something unacceptable and received a smack on the rear. "Achieved its desired results" means accomplished a goal. If Jan is a child or young person,...
