Miss Trefusis And Mdisho Character Analysis

Imagine being a 22-year-old, and leaving your family and friends for a job in Kenya, how would you feel? Going Solo is a memoir written by Roald Dahl. During his travels to a new job in Africa and memories of war, Roald writes about the interesting people he met. Miss Trefusis and Mdisho both met Roald in Kenya, but they are completely different. Mdisho is a concerned type of person, while Miss Trefusis is rather weird.

During his travels, Roald meets a woman named Miss Trefusis, which he met on his trip to Africa. At first, she seems rather weird. " She was eating an orange at the time and I noticed suddenly that she was not eating it in the normal way" (The Voyage Out, 42). She starts off kind of different, she doesn't act the same way many normal people. In the first place she had speared it from the fruit bowl with her fork instead of taking it in her fingers. And now, with knife and fork, she was making a series of neat incisions in the skin
Mdisho and Roald were roommates and they built a strong friendship. According to Roald, Mdisho is a Concerned type of person. "But do you know how to iron a shirt?" (Mdisho of the Mwanumwezi, 67). Mdisho cares a lot about Roald, and he wants to make sure that he will be able to take care of himself. Another trait that Roald uses to describe Mdisho is the word smart. "I didn not go through the road because the askaris might have stopped me" (Mdisho of the Mwanumwezi, 35). Mdisho is a smart young man that was born in a tribe of warriors, learning how to fight and become a warrior, rather quickly.

During Roald's travels he meets two very different people, Miss Trefusis and Mdisho. Miss Trefusis was weird, talking about how she really hated fingers and toes. While Mdisho was smart, learning how to read and write in english, really quick. Roald was able to turn the bad times and situations into good times, because of the people he met on his