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Review Of Tony Palmer's 'Break Of Day'

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The story ‘Break of Day’, written by Tony Palmer is about the life of a boy named Murray Barrett and his journey into war and how it changed him. Tony Palmer talks about how war changed Murray's outlook on family, what it means to be brave and war itself starting with when he was a little boy In the second chapter, Tony first demonstrated what the Barrett family is like, and it starts in the washhouse when Murray’s father picks up the newspaper with the news about the Nazis and hesitates to let Murray know what it’s was about. “At the question he tipped the paper upwards so he could see what I had read on the front page” “Then he turned back to me and smiled”. I felt like there is a bit of secrecy among the family, including the older brother
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