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Jack Floyd XJN
Title- Going Solo
Author- Roald Dahl
Date Completed- Drafted- 5th March 2015 Typed- 16th February 2015
Type of text- Novel
The novel ‘Going Solo’ is Roald Dahl’s 2nd half of his autobiography. It follows his life when he travelled to Africa to work for the ‘Shell Oil’ company and when he was a fighter pilot in ‘WWII’. This text is relevant to our world today because of the theme of positivity. I think that in our world today a lot of people struggle to stay positive. This is shown in the novel when Dahl is in the war hospital after his plane crashed in the desert, “fretting and sweating about it was not going to help”. Roald stayed positive throughout his entire time in the hospital, whereas many

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