Monday, August 5, 2013

Post 4: The Characters

  ME IN THE DREAM, Joseph Frank(nicknamed Jo), 13 in 1940, good boy, good student, slightly undisciplined, dreamer,  occasional choir boy, voracious reader, interested mostly in books, girls, cars and airplanes. Lives with his parents and younger sister in Paris(in Boulogne Billancourt where his father has a small clinic. Spends his summer vacation at a farm house in Beynes, about 30 miles West of Paris, where he learns to swim well, and meets students from Paris flying a beat up AVIA glider.  Builds balsa wood AVIA models and flies them off the Eiffel tower on Sunday afternoons. 

  THE YOUNG THUG, Antoine Mattei (nicknamed Tony), 14  in 1940, bad boy, young thug and bully, bad student, skips school, friend of the local prostitutes, small time thief, etc... Lives with his parents and older sister in Paris (Saint Ouen). Had never set foot outside Paris.

  MY MOTHER, Sarah Frank, of Jewish Russian decent, catholic, big dark frizzy hair, green eyes, petite and thin, homemaker, good musician, teaches piano.

  MY FATHER, Erik Frank , Medical Doctor, studied in France where he met my mother in 1925, German, blond hair, blue eyes, tall and skinny, classical music lover, listens to 78RPM records of   Wilhelm Furtwangler directing the Berlin Philarmonic in Wagner. Went back to Germany at the beginning of the war to avoid internment and served as a surgeon.

  MY SISTER, Frieda Frank, school girl, dark hair, blue eyes, skinny and sickly, will die of tuberculosis. 


  THE FATHER OF THE YOUNG THUG, Mateo Mattei, from Corsica, night club owner("Le Pousse au Crime"? "The Blue Star"?) , small time gangster, drug dealer, pimp, but with a code of honor("coeur pur"), tough but good hearted, involved at the same time in the Black Market and in the "Résistance", shot by the Germans in 1943.


  THE MOTHER OF THE YOUNG THUG, Angela Mattei, runs a night club owned by her husband, alcoholic and drug addict(C et H), pimps her own daughter to German Officers.


  THE  SISTER OF THE YOUNG THUG, Serafina Mattei ( nicknamed Fina), "Danseuse et Chanteuse", entraineuse in her father's nightclub, occasional prostitute, involved in the "Résistance" collecting information from German Officers.


THE SHOT DOWN PILOT, French, nom de guerre Victor, an ace, flying missions for the British dropping supplies to the "Résistance", met Kessel in England.


THE GLIDER, a simplified AVIA, copy of the Gorling.

THE HEAD OF THE MAQUIS LOUIS, near Luzy, Morvan,  Lieutenant Armand
THE FARMER AND HIS WIFE, elderly Morvandiau couple
THE SAWMILL OWNER
THE MILLER

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