January 13, 2015

The Hitchhiker 

                       On his way to London he picks up a hitchhiker in his brand new nice BMW. The man he picked up was described as looking like a rat and he explained tot the narrator that he was going to a horse race but not to bet or anything. This narrator mentions he is a writer and then they start discussing his new car and how it can reach 120 mph. The narrator proves his car can go that fast until a big tough policeman on a BMW motorcycle stops them. The writer is courageous and naive as he does things like speed and get a ticket just to prove something not important at all. Although, the writer represents a nice character by giving the hitchhiker a left. The hitchhiker was really clever and also showed some a good level of intelligence. He had the narrator going thinking about what is he does as a career because he had told him one thing before, but the policeman another. Now the writer was confused and asked once more what it really was he did for a living. The plot twist was right when the policeman had pulled them over and everything had to come out. He was neither what he told the narrator or the cop. The hitchhiker was a finger smith he could take anything he wanted with out anyone noticing, just as he took the two books from the cop. Dahl introduces the characters as one thing, but really end up being someone else. The tone of each person speaking helps readers know exactly how they feel. Irony is also used because the hitchhiker had taken the books which meant there was no ticket to register. 2.5/5