Model answer: David might be able to persuade his father to allow him to go and fight the Philistines as he thinks he is old enough to fight like his brothers. David might speak to his father again without his brothers hearing as he knows his father has a soft spot for him and he sometimes 'indulged his wishes'.
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David's job was to look after the family's sheep and he had just brought the flock in from the hills for the night. 'I definitely want to go and face the Philistines too,' said David to his brothers and father. The Philistines were a tribe of fierce fighters who were at war with David's tribe, the Israelites.
'Don't be stupid,' said his oldest brother, Eliab. 'It will be men's work, David
'I'm not a boy,' said David, 'I'm nearly grown up and I'm tired of you lot treating me like a child. You'll let me go, Father, won't you?'
Jesse had always had a soft spot for his youngest son and sometimes indulged his wishes. But on this occasion Jesse agreed with his first-born.
'No, I'm sorry, David,' he said. 'Eliab is right. You're just not old enough to be a warrior.'
Tony Bradman and Tony Ross: from The Orchard Book of Heroes and Villains (Orchard Books, 2008)
What might David do when his brothers set off to face the Philistines?
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