Boy Giant by Michael Morpurgo

Author:Michael Morpurgo
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Published: 2019-08-20T17:00:00+00:00

But that wasn’t the end of the story. Now comes the important part, the part Gran Baruta always liked telling best, the part all the children always liked best too. The ‘eggy part’, as Gran Baruta called it. ‘As you all know, dear Lilliputians,’ she would say, ‘without Gulliver we should not be as we are today, living together in peace and friendship, living for one another, free to speak our minds, a free people, a happy people, mostly.’

That day, over three hundred years ago now, when he had sunk all the warships of Lilliput and Blufescu, Gulliver realised that was not good enough, that there was more that had to be done. He knew that one side or the other – or both – could always build more warships, more weapons of war. He understood that to make peace, it wasn’t enough just to sink the warships of both sides. He knew that to be sure peace would last, all weapons of war had to be destroyed.

So he made both emperors agree to surrender every bow and arrow, every spear, every sword, every musket, cannon and cannon ball. Gran Baruta’s grandfather was there, as a little boy – she often reminded us of this as she was telling her story. He saw it all, heard it all, remembered it all – everything Gulliver did, every word he said, how Gulliver built a raft and loaded it again and again with every weapon of war from both islands, then towed it far out to sea, where he tipped the raft upside down, and all their weapons of war ended up at the bottom of the ocean. ‘That’s where they belong. No weapons, no war,’ Gulliver told them.

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