MAN FROM THE

SOUTH

AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY Roal Dahl

• a British novelist

• short story writer

• fighter pilot

• screenwriter

• he was born in Wales, 1916

• When Roald was four years old, his father died,

• At school, he was always homesick

• After school he didn´t go to the University

• He was sent to East Africa

• When the second World War

broke out, he went to Nairobi to

join the Royal Air Force

• In 1942, he went to Washington

as Assistant Air Attaché.

• In 1943, he published

his first children's book

• Patricia Neal

• divorced in 1983 and married Felicity Crosland

• Roald Dahl died in November 1990.

Hiswork

Summary• It take place in a hotel in Jamaica

Characters

South American

around 68 to 70 years old

Poor man

Very mysterious

Has cut 47 fingers and lost 11 cars

He is irrational, because what is the advantage by cutting off the finger in the bet

CARLOS

The boy•American cadet from America

who wants to be sailor

• about 19 or 20 years old

•Brave

• little arrogant

NARRATOR • A good man

•The judge of the bet

•He is only to be referee in this story.

THE ENGLISH GIRL

- has a large-boned and fair-haired- Quiet girl- The gilfriend from the boy

THE WOMAN • Small

•black haired

•Old

•Maybe the wife of the old man

• She has not all the fingers, only one finger and the thumb

• She stopped the bet