How To Make A Bet In Man From The South

Have you ever made a bet? Did you ever have a bet that involved cutting off your pinky? In the short story “Man From The South” by Roald Dahl, there is an old man that makes a bet with a boy in his younger twenty’s. If the kids lighter can light 10 times in a row, he gets a Cadillac, if it does not light 10 times in a row he loses his pinky. The theme for this book is to be careful with what you bet, because it can cost you something very precious. In the beginning, when the old man first offered the bet, the kid was very scared, but you could also tell he was very tempted when he could not keep still and was very shaky. This shows that the kid was very scared about the bet and was being careful with the bet he was given but his greed