Zusammenfassung
Zusammenfassung von Rollo auf dem Atlantik
Für wen es gedacht ist
You will enjoy this if you like voyages, ships and how things work, or if a warm, gentle tale about two children finding their feet among strangers sounds good to you.
Worum es in diesem Buch geht
Rollo on the Atlantic is a story for young readers by Jacob Abbott, the American author who filled a whole series of books with a boy named Rollo. Here Rollo is twelve, and he must cross the ocean to Europe on a steamship with his cousin Jane, who is younger. Abbott wrote for the children of his own day, and he meant to teach as well as to entertain.
The book follows the two children from a stone bench in a country garden to the crowded piers of New York, and then out onto the open sea. You learn how a steamer is steered, how bells tell the time, how sailors find their way, and how passengers fill their days. Along the way Rollo meets small tests of kindness, honesty and courage, and a spotted kitten named Tiger rides with them in a canary cage. Let us begin with the news that sets everything moving.
In dieser Zusammenfassung
- 1A Letter Sends Two Children Across the SeaFree
- 2A Lost Trunk Leaves Them Alone
- 3The Ship Teaches Rollo Its Ways
- 4Kind Strangers Fill the Empty Places
- 5A Bird, a Bow, and a Storm
- 6A Lottery, Lessons, and Abbott's Voice
Punkt 1 von 6
A Letter Sends Two Children Across the Sea
The story opens with a puzzle. How do two children come to cross the Atlantic with no adult to watch over them? Rollo's father and mother have gone to Europe for the sake of Mr. Holiday's health, and they have taken Rollo's younger brother Nathan, whom everyone calls Thanny. A year later Mr. Holiday is worse, and his doctor says he cannot travel home before September, perhaps not before spring.
Mrs. Holiday misses her other children, especially little Jane, whom she loves as if she were her own daughter. She hardly dares to suggest that they come out alone. Her husband is surprised and pleased, and he says that the cost does not matter. He writes to Rollo's uncle George, a young man, and asks him to book passage, to find a passenger who will look after the children, and to place them in the care of a chambermaid.
The news reaches the children one evening near the end of May. They are eating bread and milk on a stone bench beside a brook at the bottom of the garden. Jane is feeding her mottled kitten, which she calls her tiger and keeps in an old canary cage she found in the attic. Uncle George comes down through the garden with a letter and asks Rollo whether he would dare to go to England with no one to take care of him. Rollo jumps for joy and says he needs no help at all.
Jane is frightened and says she would not dare go unless somebody bigger than Rollo came along. Her uncle tells her she must submit to destiny. She gives way on one condition, that she may take Tiger and the cage. Mr. George agrees, then goes to New York to choose two connected staterooms, to look over the list of passengers for friends of Mr. Holiday, and to learn how tickets and gates work at the great pier.
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Questions about Rollo auf dem Atlantik
What is Rollo on the Atlantic about?
It tells how twelve-year-old Rollo and his cousin Jane cross the Atlantic on a steamer to join their parents in England. On the way they meet kind helpers, learn how a ship works, and face a storm.
Who is Jane, and why does she carry a cage?
Jane is Rollo's younger cousin, adopted by the Holidays. She calls her spotted kitten Tiger and keeps her in an old canary cage, so the cage goes with them everywhere on the voyage.
What do the ship's bells mean in the book?
The bells tell time at sea. Two strokes mark an hour and a single stroke marks the half hour, and eight bells mark the changes of watch and the main meals of the day.
Is Rollo on the Atlantic a true story?
It is a made-up story by Jacob Abbott, part of his Rollo series. It is built on real details of steamer travel in his day, such as pilots, the log, and the bulletin of the day's run.
Is Rollo on the Atlantic easy to read?
Its plain sentences, lively scenes, and clear explanations of how a steamer works suit young readers and curious adults alike. The chapters are short and each one has its own small adventure.