Everyone in
their childhood enjoyed reading fairy tales and some peculiar character-based
books to relate more with their day-to-day mischiefs, isn’t it? Hardy Boys,
Billy Bunter, Enid Blyton series, etc. Well, then, what about Just William
series? Though intrinsically British humour, but pupil can still relate a lot
with this tousle-headed, snub-nosed, chirpy little devil. Among many children’s
character, William was all time favorite because this lad always emerged out
grumpy after ensuing troublesome case.
He was bit
weird in terms of envying adults. In other books the children did implausible
things that animated the imagination of even the saintly people but William was
something that readers could directly relate to. While many of us have not
carried things as risky as William did, we were quite familiar with his thought
process. We too used to do many of the things William did. Undoubtedly, we all
immensely enjoyed this completely humorous read. Also the thing is not entirely
slap stick. You can find deeper meaning in some of the stories if we look for
it - the way William questions some of the norms of modern society. Things like
movements, sainthood, travelers, arrogant persons, pretentious formalities to
name a few. Thus, in some ways, it is satire of all sorts as well.
As we know ‘Just
William’ is a series written by the British author Richmal Crompton, William
–The Conqueror is just one book from the series. She started this series in 1922.
This book deals with William and some of his friends’ obsession to act like
Robin Hood. They want to exploit riches to serve the poor. Well, the only rich
man they could find was Violet's father and Violet was the boy who suggested
him to steal from riches and dole out that stolen money to poor. However, not
everything that is planned materializes and then trouble starts for the boys.
Enjoy this favorable troublemaker from Just William series.
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