Echo Summary

Echo is a beautifully crafted story filled with adventure, mystery, and a powerful sense of hope and heart. The story starts off with a little boy named Otto who encounters 3 sisters named Eins, Zwei, and Drei who are held under a spell. The only way for them to break this spell is for Otto to pass on a harmonica to the right person. When Otto sks the 3 siblings how he’d know, who is the right person, the sisters simply reply by saying “ You will know.”. The setting of the book, then changes to 50 years later in Germany, where a 13 year old boy named Friedrich is bullied for his looks and imagination of becoming an orchestra leader when he grows up. One day Friedrich notices a strange silver object,and is overjoyed to get to know that it is …show more content…
The only object that keeps them happy was the old, almost broken down piano. When the two finally get adopted , they realise that Aunt Eunie (their guardian) had not wanted them and had in fact wanted one girl. Mike compromises with tAunt Eunie saying that he would join the band , but just to take good care of Frankie. Aunt Eunie starts to develop a close relationship with both of the boys, no longer disliking them.One day the butler of the house takes Mike and Frankie to buy 2 harmonicas. The one that Mike picks out has a letter M on it and sounds somewhat different but in a pleasant way. Once again the setting changes to a few years later in California, where a girl named Ivy was given a harmonica from her teacher to play at school. When Ivy chooses her harmonica, she chooses one with the letter M on it. With Ivy’s brother, Fernando at war and the discrimination Ivy gets for going to school only meant for Mexicans, her only enjoyment is the orchestra where she learns the flute. 17 years later the 3 characters, Mike, Ivy, and Freidrich now grown up happen to be in the same orchestra and Eins, Zwei, and Drei’s spell is