The theme of this novel is it teaches us how war treats its victims. The author included some of the characters thoughts but not all of them.Ħ. This was a true story and happened in 1942-1945 during World War 2. (point of view) So the author told the story and not the characters. Roger wanted to escape really bad like all the others.ĥ.The point of view in this story is a 3rd person POV. He respected his men and everyone knew who he was in the camp. This man was a brilliant minded person who had tunnelled out of prison camps before. He died later on in the story when he was captured and executed by Hitler’s orders. He had dark eyes and he was a well respected member of the military. This man organized most of the escape, and he was a fair sized man with dark brown hair and white skin. And last but not least the men had to make tough decisions of where to go and how they were going to escape.Ĥ.Roger Bushell was a British Officer in the RAF of Great Briton, he was a early 40’s man who was captured a year before the escape. Also man vs nature was used when the hard-arsers (Men who had to walk to friendly territory) had to go through the wilderness and fight the cold and injuries they endured. He was a British officer of the RAF in Great Briton.ģ.Conflicts that were used in this novel was man vs man cause there was a war going on and the men had to fight there way to freedom when they were captured. The main leader of this idea was Roger Bushell. The tunnels were moderated and ran by the “X-Organization.” There were different groups made up to make the tunnels. The camp Sagan is located in Sagan, Germany.

11 made it home and the other five were secretly murdered.Ģ.The setting of this story takes place in Germany during World War 2, 1942. 76 men escaped and 50 were murdered alter on in the novel. 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. And they succeed on digging it, it approximately took them a year to escape from one of these tunnels. When this happens, the prisoners try to complete Tom.

The German solders or ferrets find out about Harry, and Harry is the one they were originally planning to escape from. 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. In this prison camp, there are over 700 prisoners from World War 2. 1.This story is about a prison camp in Sagan, Germany.

The great escape by paul brickhill