"Where did you got this name?" Pamplemousse hated this question, but it kept pursuing him since the day he was born. "My parents had always wished to visit France, and they just loved this word - which means 'grapefruit' in French - so they ended up calling me Pamplemousse."
After spending a couple of years in the small town of Graveline in the north of France, he wondered more and more why his parents were so in love with this country. But now his parents were dead, and he was far from where he was born, so there was no way for him to find the answers to his questions. For him, until now life had resumed itself to the Catholic orphanage in which he had grown up, the rainy weather of Northern France, and the small square in the center of Graveline with its old church were a few Gravelinois gathered every Sunday. In other words: the boring life of a small town in a sleepy region. But unlike his classmates who took this life for granted, Pamplemousse never really understood what he was doing there. It was only few months ago that he started to pay attention to these thoughts, and he soon realized that he did not know much about his past, where he was from, and who he was. And as he was approaching the age of 18 and the long sought independence of adulthood, the dreams of re-discovering his homeland haunted him more and more.
This story really begins when Pamplemousse sets for the first time in his life his feet outside France...
Conflict:
Pamplemousse doesn't feel at home. At feels like a minority of one. So he goes back to Palestine, because he thinks he will fit better in the society. But he then realize that Palestine is at war with Israel, the conditions of living are terrible, people are suffering. And worse of all: he is not accepted by the local population.
Climax:
It builds up as the expectation becomes stronger and stronger. Pamplemousse gets more and more excited to finally see Palestine. But then it's not all all what he expected. He can't speak arabic, people consider him as a foreigner, a rich foreigner who can be exploited... He tries to go back to the village where he was born, and on the way he gets stuck at a military checkpoint and he doesn't understands the language and panic and get shot.
After spending a couple of years in the small town of Graveline in the north of France, he wondered more and more why his parents were so in love with this country. But now his parents were dead, and he was far from where he was born, so there was no way for him to find the answers to his questions. For him, until now life had resumed itself to the Catholic orphanage in which he had grown up, the rainy weather of Northern France, and the small square in the center of Graveline with its old church were a few Gravelinois gathered every Sunday. In other words: the boring life of a small town in a sleepy region. But unlike his classmates who took this life for granted, Pamplemousse never really understood what he was doing there. It was only few months ago that he started to pay attention to these thoughts, and he soon realized that he did not know much about his past, where he was from, and who he was. And as he was approaching the age of 18 and the long sought independence of adulthood, the dreams of re-discovering his homeland haunted him more and more.
This story really begins when Pamplemousse sets for the first time in his life his feet outside France...
Conflict:
Pamplemousse doesn't feel at home. At feels like a minority of one. So he goes back to Palestine, because he thinks he will fit better in the society. But he then realize that Palestine is at war with Israel, the conditions of living are terrible, people are suffering. And worse of all: he is not accepted by the local population.
Climax:
It builds up as the expectation becomes stronger and stronger. Pamplemousse gets more and more excited to finally see Palestine. But then it's not all all what he expected. He can't speak arabic, people consider him as a foreigner, a rich foreigner who can be exploited... He tries to go back to the village where he was born, and on the way he gets stuck at a military checkpoint and he doesn't understands the language and panic and get shot.
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