An umbrella man
This term we`ve read the short story “The umbrella man” by Roald Dahl. Roald Dahl is a British writer, who is well-known for creating wonderful children`s fiction. He was born in Wales on 16th September 1916 to Norwegian nɔːˈwiːdʒən parents. His father died when he was 3 years old and he was brought up by his mother. He had a fairly unhappy time at (the) boarding school which he later described as "days of horrors" filled with "rules, rules and still more rules that had to be obeyed," which inspired much of his gruesome fiction.
Roald Dahl didn`t studied at university. During the world war two he was a fighter pilot, after war he returned home as an invalid. His marriage with the actress Patricia Neal was unhappy. They got divorced. But it produced five children
Dahl's first published work was "A Piece Of Cake" . In 1943, he published his first children's book "The Gremlins" and in 1945 his first book of short stories appeared in the US. Roald Dahl is best known as the author of the children's book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory .
Roald Dahl died in November 1990. The Times called him "one of the most widely read and influential writers of our generation".
The narrator, a little 12 years old girl tells us about an accident that happened with her and her mother somewhere in London in a one raining day.. One moment an old man comes up to them. He comes across as a polite, well-spoken old gentleman. He is sheltering under an umbrella. The man wonders if he could ask them for a small favour: he wants to exchange his silk umbrella for a pound for his taxi-fare in order to get home.
The woman looks at his suspiciously, because she has a golden rule which says “The nicer the man seems to be, the more suspicious you must become”. While the man is speaking, the woman looks down on him with a frosty-nosed stare. Her daughter is quite embarrassed by her mother`s sharpness and doesn`t want her mother to be so beasty to an old man.
As they are getting soaked to the
Roald Dahl didn`t studied at university. During the world war two he was a fighter pilot, after war he returned home as an invalid. His marriage with the actress Patricia Neal was unhappy. They got divorced. But it produced five children
Dahl's first published work was "A Piece Of Cake" . In 1943, he published his first children's book "The Gremlins" and in 1945 his first book of short stories appeared in the US. Roald Dahl is best known as the author of the children's book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory .
Roald Dahl died in November 1990. The Times called him "one of the most widely read and influential writers of our generation".
The narrator, a little 12 years old girl tells us about an accident that happened with her and her mother somewhere in London in a one raining day.. One moment an old man comes up to them. He comes across as a polite, well-spoken old gentleman. He is sheltering under an umbrella. The man wonders if he could ask them for a small favour: he wants to exchange his silk umbrella for a pound for his taxi-fare in order to get home.
The woman looks at his suspiciously, because she has a golden rule which says “The nicer the man seems to be, the more suspicious you must become”. While the man is speaking, the woman looks down on him with a frosty-nosed stare. Her daughter is quite embarrassed by her mother`s sharpness and doesn`t want her mother to be so beasty to an old man.
As they are getting soaked to the