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DANGEROUS JOURNEY

Laszlo Hamori

Introduction	Summary	Book Review
Characters & Setting	Clint – 38 November 12, 2004 Language Arts	Author Information

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Introduction

If you want daring, exciting, scary, happy, and sad adventures then you must read this book. I highly recommend it. Did you ever wonder what it was like to be controlled by the communists? Well, if you read this book, you will know how the evil communists treat people and why people would run away from them.

Summary:

This story is about the escape from Hungary when it was under the control of the evil communists and their soviet masters by a thirteen-year old boy, Laszlo Kerek. This boy had lived with his grandmother when his parents had been able to get permission to immigrate to Sweden. The grandmother had died and now the communists wanted to put Laszlo in an orphanage that doubles as a reform and re-education school. On the train to Szlnok, Hungary, Laszlo is paired with Pishta, who is being sent to the same school for re-education. Pishta engineers their escape and the rest of the story is about how the pair is able to escape Hungary to Vienna, Austria, Laszlo is able to reunite with his parents. Mr. and Mrs. Veres are a kindly couple that is neighbors of Pishta and his widowed mother. Pishta’s father had been killed during the war. Mr. and Mrs. Veres arranges for them to be stowaways on a train bound to Vienna. Pishta catches pneumonia on the train and Laszlo gets left behind at a train stop near Hungarian border when he gets water for his sick traveling companion. They both make it to Vienna where Pishta is hospitalized and Laszlo falls into the clutches of the criminal who holds Laszlo for ransom. Laszlo’s father is able to get a friend of his, Bo Nillson, to get to Austria to reclaim his son. Bo is able to track down Laszlo, get Herr Kliener arrested and return Laszlo to his parents. The story ends with Laszlo boarding a plan to Sweden.

Main Characters:

v Laszlo Kerek is a twelve-year-old boy who tries to escape from the evil communists.

v Pishta Gati is a boy who happens to be in the same school as Laszlo. he engineers an escape plan.

v Mr. and Mrs. Veres are a childless couple that helps Laszlo escape.

v Herr Kliener, a bounty hunter for the evil communists who return escapees back to the communists.

v Bo Nilsson is the editor of the Swedish newspaper who goes to Austria to save Laszlo.

Setting:

Budapest, Hungary, Vienna, Austria,

and the land in between these two cities

Author:

Laszlo Hamori this story is basically about him.

He went through all the things that happened in this story.

Book Review:

I thought this story was complicated but very exciting. I liked this story because it shows how far someone is willing to go to have his/her freedom. If you haven’t read this book I really that you should.