The beautiful flowers, the animals, the birds, show me what to carve with my knife. But they learn that being in other surroundings with other people can open them up to new learning and new opportunities. The children are self-centered and judgmental when they first arrive. “What would a shepherd be doing with money, Mister Nagy? I have everything here. The Good Master is a classic story of 2 children who are sent to live with their grandparents in another country. Her father has spoiled Kate since her mother died, and now he hopes his.

He had it all figured out - he would give a donkey for even a sister. Kates Uncle Marton is the Good Master, a kind and respected man in the community. “It got so lonesome for poor Jancsi, he would have given ten horses for a brother. The story is about the children and one of them is lonely: Then Mother could make lard, sausages, smoked hams. Two pigs were getting fatter … they would be butchered. When Jansci’s difficult city cousin Kate comes to visit, the peaceful farm life is thoroughly shaken up. Jansci’s father is a successful farmer known far and wide as The Good Master for his gentle but firm way with animals and children. Eggs were stored in the cellar, milk made into cheese. This book, The Good Master, is a story about a boy whose family has to take care of his cousin, who is an unexpectedly rambunctious and misbehaved little girl. The Good Master tells a simple story of Hungarian farm life in the early twentieth century. “The gigantic task of preparing against the long-hard winter went on.

People wore traditional dress and each had their specific job on the farm which was very hard work. This classic tale of Hungarian farm life shows how a farm was fun long before the advent of mechanisation and at a time when war was not far away.įarmers lived close to their animals and did everthing by hand from milking to checking the crops and collecting the hay for winter. Hungary Travel through the history of Hungary with The BookTrail

The Good Master by Kate Seredy