1.This story is about a prison camp in Sagan, Germany. In this prison camp, there are over 700 prisoners from World War 2. These prisoners are all anxious to get free from the devastating camp, so they try to create 3 tunnels to get out of the camp. Tom, Harry, and Dick. These are the names of the tunnels. The German solders or ferrets find out about Harry, and Harry is the one they were originally planning to escape from. When this happens, the prisoners try to complete Tom. And they succeed on digging it, it approximately took them a year to escape from one of these tunnels. When they finish Tom, they soon realize that they are too near the fence and that they will most likely be caught, so they decide to do it cause, they would be found out by the time they try to extend the tunnel. 76 men escaped and 50 were murdered alter on in the novel. 11 made it home and the other five were secretly murdered.
2.The setting of this story takes place in …show more content…
(point of view) So the author told the story and not the characters. This was a true story and happened in 1942-1945 during World War 2. The author included some of the characters thoughts but not all of them.
6. The theme of this novel is it teaches us how war treats its victims. It also teaches us how people tried to escape from camps and how to make fake passes plus ID so they will not be caught by German patrols. It relates to us by fighting the wilderness and ourselves. This book just tells us how the Great Escape happened and who was involved and devoted to making it happen.
7.The point the climax occurs in the story is when the remaining prisoners at Sagan find out who died and who made it home safely. The murders who killed the escapees were sentenced to death or long-term sentences. The story sort of has 2 climaxes because when the Allies won the war they had to track down and interrogate the executors to find out who did the man