The best christmas present in the world.
The best christmas present in the world summary.
The best christmas present in the world michael morpurgo.
The roll top the author found a roll top desk in a junk shop.
The letter was precious to her but even more precious was her delusion that the narrator was her husband jim who she believed had returned as promised on a christmas day.
One day the day before christmas day della counted her money only one dollar and eighty seven cents.
The man said it was early nineteenth century and oak.
The narrator started its repairing on christmas eve and found a letter in its drawer.
In this story the author finds a note in an old desk and tries to reach out to its owner mrs.
This was the best christmas present in the world for her.
He found that these had been badly damaged by fire and.
He was the leader of his english troop.
The story the best christmas present in the world depicts a war story with the festive season of christmas in the backdrop.
Finally he found a second hand bargain on one in a junk shop.
He began to work on it on christmas eve.
The narrator had always wanted to buy a roll top desk but could not as they were too costly.
It was damaged but cheap.
I spotted it in a junk shop in bridport a roll top desk.
The letter he pulled out the drawers.
It was from jim macpherson to his wife connie as written on top.
Study materials of the best christmas present in the world summary character sketch and word meanings honeydew character sketch jim macpherson.
It is the story based on the world war i.
Tomorrow would be a christmas day and she had only one dollar and eighty seven cents with which to buy jim her husband a present.
This one was in a bad condition the roll top in several pieces one leg clumsily mended scorch.
Summary of the best christmas present in the worldthe narrator of the story went to a junk shop and purchased a roll top desk which was in bad condition.
Echoes of christmas 1914 in the trenches call to the present day when a letter found by chance in an antique desk brings one soldier s experience hauntingly to life.
Suitable titles could be a religious wish s embodiment someday at christmas the christmas message.
He decided to repair it and started work on christmas eve.
He read the letter.
Connie macpherson to deliver the letter written by her husband jim during the war.
He thought that he could restore it.
It was in a bad condition but cheap.
I had wanted one but they were far too expensive.
The narrator buys a roll top desk.
Three timed della counted it but the result is same.
The best christmas present in the world.
