Miss Trefusis And Mdisho Analysis

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Miss Trefusis and Mdisho
Can you imagine being sent to a foreign country for war when you didn’t have any experience at all! Well a man named Roald Dahl did this exact thing, He is from the great book Going Solo. He met many new people on the way, Two were named Miss Trefusis and Mdisho, they both live in Africa but Roald describes them as totally different personalities, he describes Miss Trefusis as weird and Mdisho as strong. To begin with, Dahl meets a lady named Miss Trefusis. He describes her as a bit odd. In the text it states," still using knife and fork she separated the juicy segments and began to eat them slowly one by one with her fork"(The Voyage Out paragraph 42). This shows that she is strange because he is now noticing

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