January 12, 2015

Man from the south 

                 

   The narrator Dahl gives no name to was lying on a hotel pool in a hot place with palm trees. A white small man wearing a white suit and a panama hat comes in touch with him. Then comes along an American boy and English girl. The boy asks who were the American sailors coming around. The boy goes on in confidence that his light will always work even in crazy wind. The old man asks the boy if he is willing to bet on how good his lighter was. The bet was if the boy was able to light his light ten times in a row with out a skip he would get his Cadillac. If the boy loses the bet he will loose his little finger. The boy was confident believing his lighter will work each time. The little man was a lunatic wanting little finger and losing all of his cars. The two other characters were just standbys. In the middle of the process at his eight light, a women bargained in stopping the man and telling the passed stories of him before. The boy noticed the woman with missing fingers. Dahl uses an allegory to not trust anyone and it is not always what it seem. The old Man had nothing the Cadillac was not even his in the first place. 3/5