Goodnight Mr Tom Analysis

In the historical fiction Goodnight, Mr. Tom written by Michelle Magorian, Tom changes throughout the novel when Willie comes to him and comfort his sorrow for his wife and son. He becomes more open-minded, more socialized, more caring, and gradually forgets about his sorrows for his family with the accompany from Willie. There are changes in his attitude to Will, his changes to his neighbors, and his changes in himself. Some of these examples are when he go to London to save Will and take him safely back to his cottage, when he first volunteers to help out with the war, and also when he try to shut out the sorrow memories of his wife and son from his mind.

Tom changes from a grumpy old man to Will’s father who shows kindness, gentleness, and warmth to him throughout the story. Wh en Will first comes to the new village as an evacuee, he is taken by

According to the novel, “Since Rachel 's death he hadn 't joined in any of the social activities in Little Weirwold. In his grief he had cut himself off from people, and when he had recovered he had lost the habit of socializing” (Magorian 75). This proves that he has stay in grieve for a long time after his wife and son’s and never has the interests of joining any social events after that. But he changes after Will come and is involving in more social events, maybe it’s because he needs to take care and be a role model to Will. The author suggests, in one of the chapters, he is the first one to volunteer with helping out since war had started, “Tom 's name was hurriedly put down. There was a murmur of surprise and enthusiasm in the hall” (Magorian 77) This evidence proves that many people are amaze and surprise and which I believe also change other people’s opinion of him as well. From the beginning of the novel, Tom endure changes such as he becomes more open to both his neighbors and the social