1. Write a summary of ‘’Happy birthday’’ 1951 in about 150 words.
‘’Happy birthday’’ it’s a text about an old man and a young boy, who live in a ruin, in a former warzone. The city is still full of soldiers and tanks. The man got the baby boy about six years ago from a refugee woman. The story begins with the man wanting the boy to choose a birthday. The boy chooses the following day. The old man puts together a cart for the boy, but he also wants the boy to experience a world without war. Next day the boy gets the cart and pretends its a tank, because he is fascinated by war, but the old man want the boy to pretend that it is a truck. After that the man takes the boy into the forest for a day to experience the world as it should be. They pass a tank on their way, and the boy is all ecstatic about it, but the man wants the boy to come along into the forest. The man falls asleep, and when he wakes up late in the afternoon then he found out that the boy was missing. The old man is calling the boy and in the end the boy comes out from the tank

2. Characterize the boy and the old man.
The old mand:
The old man is kind, friendly and helpful, because he took the little baby without any expectation to get something back, like money or help from others. He spawned the little boy with his money, no help from others and his pure love like a father. The old man does not like war and the soldiers. He wants to take the boy away from war, because he thinks that the boy is too young. The old man takes care of the young child, because a refugee woman left the boy as a baby in his arms. The old man feels that he has been a bad father for the child, which is expressed in this part of the story: “I haven´t been a very good father, letting you go without birthdays this long”. The old man is tired of living in a place with war around him and he thinks that the boy has already been there too long.

The boy:
The boy is 7 years old and has no parents. Back when he was born, his mother gave him away to the old man and never showed up again. The boy is very curios, because he wants to know and investigate everything. He is not missing a birthday because he does not know what a birthday is. He likes presents and if a birthday will give him a present he want one. The most boys in the age of seven years likes adventures and are not always listening to their parents like the little boy, which is investigating the tank without letting know the old man. The boy has no identity, because his mother left him as a baby in the arms of the old man. About six years go by without a birthday for the little boy. The little boy is very interested in war and sees everything as a adventure.