A short story

Although the story was simple and nice to read, there was a few new vocabulary. I didn't know almost all the vocabulary and the expressions at the end of text like frosty-nosed or to have got a nerve.

I liked this story because of the Roald Dahl's writing style which is singular. He has a very interesting world and although the most of his books were destined to children, it is always a pleasure to read them because he's got a great imagination. Although...

The story hasn't a specific theme but we can say that this short story deals with the every day life. More accurately, it talks about the little rips off of the every day life.

The narrator and her mother had gone to London to bring the narrator to the dentist. After that, they decided to go to a café. When they went out, an old man with a silk umbrella came up to them. He asked her mother if he could sell his umbrella for a...

There are only three characters in this story. We have a few information about them but we don't know their names. The main character is a twelve-years-old girl, who is also the narrator of the story. Oddly, she is the less described character in the...

The story seems to set on nowadays but we haven't many clues. It can't take place before the XX e century because the narrator writes about taxies. Also, the narrator told us the scene had taken place the day before she talked. The scene took place in...

The story is narrated in the first person: the narrator is a twelve-years-old girl. The author uses an internal focus. All the dialogues are reported in direct speech.

Roald Dahl was born on September, 13 th was only 3. During the second World War, he was a fighter pilot in Nairobi. Then he was sent in the USA where he met C. S. Forester who made him write and Ian Fleming, the author of the « James Bond ». He began...

The document is a short story by Roald Dahl. It was publicated for the first time in 1980 in a collection of short stories named « More Tales of the Unexpected ». Then, it was publicated a second time in another collection of thirty short stories named...