Papillon
Henri Charriére
Jonathan Beech
Just settled into a new town with a house and a woman Henri decides to run away, again. If you were Henri would you have been able to bring yourself to run away from those who treated you so kindly from the very beginning? Just running away with no real explanation after living with them for months? In the book Papillon this may have been one of Henri’s more difficult decisions to make. Henri had done this once, he had two wives and a good life in an Indian tribe, yet he chose to run away, now he does the same.
I wouldn’t have been able to bring myself to run away again as I don’t know if I would have life as good as I had or be thrown back into prison.
Henri had been living in Georgetown for a little less than a year. During his time he had pretty much settled down other than the fact that he had to keep changing his business. Although he loved his “wife” and his friends in the town, Henri ran away because it was rather hard to earn a living as well as the fact that the chances of business were growing thin. Henri knew about the war going on and that he wouldn’t be allowed to leave so he and 3 friends pretend to be a worker on a fishing boat to run away. In a way Henri was willing to sacrifice his own freedom to earn a better living for a better life.
If I had been in the position Henri was in I don’t think I would have even tried to escape. 1st of all I’m not brave enough to try to mess around with the law especially if leaving the British Guiana is a serious crime and to top it off they were in war. Even so if I was earning an extremely low wage leaving the country wouldn’t be an option for me. I think that because Henri is so courageous and willing to fight for what he wants is the reason the book is so interesting.
Henri Charriére
Jonathan Beech
Just settled into a new town with a house and a woman Henri decides to run away, again. If you were Henri would you have been able to bring yourself to run away from those who treated you so kindly from the very beginning? Just running away with no real explanation after living with them for months? In the book Papillon this may have been one of Henri’s more difficult decisions to make. Henri had done this once, he had two wives and a good life in an Indian tribe, yet he chose to run away, now he does the same.
I wouldn’t have been able to bring myself to run away again as I don’t know if I would have life as good as I had or be thrown back into prison.
Henri had been living in Georgetown for a little less than a year. During his time he had pretty much settled down other than the fact that he had to keep changing his business. Although he loved his “wife” and his friends in the town, Henri ran away because it was rather hard to earn a living as well as the fact that the chances of business were growing thin. Henri knew about the war going on and that he wouldn’t be allowed to leave so he and 3 friends pretend to be a worker on a fishing boat to run away. In a way Henri was willing to sacrifice his own freedom to earn a better living for a better life.
If I had been in the position Henri was in I don’t think I would have even tried to escape. 1st of all I’m not brave enough to try to mess around with the law especially if leaving the British Guiana is a serious crime and to top it off they were in war. Even so if I was earning an extremely low wage leaving the country wouldn’t be an option for me. I think that because Henri is so courageous and willing to fight for what he wants is the reason the book is so interesting.
