Nobody would ever think that a children’s author would be that crazy and interesting, but nobody's ever really research Roald Dahl. Roald Dahl was born on September 13, 1916. He is currently famous for writing classic children's books like Charlie and the Chocolate factory, The BFG, James and the Giant Peach, Matilda, etc… The crazy thing is that he has done more than just children's books. Roald Dahl has done many important things in his life other than writing children's books, such as medical advancements, being a british spy, and a WWII pilot.
One important thing Dahl had done is his uncredited work in the medical field. Roald Dahl had lots injuries and deaths to illness in his family and when he was young he wanted to be in the medical …show more content…
Patricia Neal, Dahl’s wife, had a stroke which caused her to be paralyzed and she had trouble trying to speak and Dahl’s son was hit by a taxi then got flung onto a bus which shattered his skull. “While working on a film in Hollywood, Miss Neal suffered a stroke that left her paralyzed and speechless. Urged on by her demanding husband, the writer Roald Dahl, she undertook a relentless program of therapy and, quite miraculously, was able to return to work two years later in the film 'The Subject Was Roses.'”(O’Connor 1). With Dahl’s research on different rehabilitation techniques, he was able to save his wife from not being able to do the things that she loves. “After his son’s accident, when most parents would have been catatonic with worry, Dahl helped invent a new valve that kept spinal fluid from pressing on his son’s brain—a tool that turned out to be so effective and cheap (Dahl refused to profit from it) that it was eventually used in thousands of other patients”(NYmag). Dahl was able to help invent a new valve to help his son’s life after a terrible accident. How this is a more important thing other than writing children’s books is because without the medical advancement some children would even be able to read his books and some adults wouldn’t be able to read them to their kids because they would have slurred speech due to a …show more content…
Dahl crashed his plane in the libyan desert which cause many other things after that. “In World War II, he became one of the RAF’s most promising pilots—only to crash his plane, on his first official day of flying, in the Libyan Desert. As he lay there fighting for consciousness—his skull fractured, his spine wrenched out of place, his eyes swollen shut by burns, his poor reattached nose driven back into his face—his airplane’s machine guns, stoked by the heat, started shooting at him”(NYmag 1). This shows that Dahl was fairly good at piloting, but because of circumstances, he crashed in the desert which took him temporarily out of the war. “After he’d recuperated, Dahl was sent to fight in the notorious Battle of Athens, in which twelve or so RAF fighters took on roughly 150 German planes”(NYmag 1). This shows that Dahl got better and because of this he was able to still fly, letting him be back into the war. How this shows that he has done more important things other than children's books is because while yes he did crash in Libya, but he did help serve which in WWII they needed all of the help they could
One important thing Dahl had done is his uncredited work in the medical field. Roald Dahl had lots injuries and deaths to illness in his family and when he was young he wanted to be in the medical …show more content…
Patricia Neal, Dahl’s wife, had a stroke which caused her to be paralyzed and she had trouble trying to speak and Dahl’s son was hit by a taxi then got flung onto a bus which shattered his skull. “While working on a film in Hollywood, Miss Neal suffered a stroke that left her paralyzed and speechless. Urged on by her demanding husband, the writer Roald Dahl, she undertook a relentless program of therapy and, quite miraculously, was able to return to work two years later in the film 'The Subject Was Roses.'”(O’Connor 1). With Dahl’s research on different rehabilitation techniques, he was able to save his wife from not being able to do the things that she loves. “After his son’s accident, when most parents would have been catatonic with worry, Dahl helped invent a new valve that kept spinal fluid from pressing on his son’s brain—a tool that turned out to be so effective and cheap (Dahl refused to profit from it) that it was eventually used in thousands of other patients”(NYmag). Dahl was able to help invent a new valve to help his son’s life after a terrible accident. How this is a more important thing other than writing children’s books is because without the medical advancement some children would even be able to read his books and some adults wouldn’t be able to read them to their kids because they would have slurred speech due to a …show more content…
Dahl crashed his plane in the libyan desert which cause many other things after that. “In World War II, he became one of the RAF’s most promising pilots—only to crash his plane, on his first official day of flying, in the Libyan Desert. As he lay there fighting for consciousness—his skull fractured, his spine wrenched out of place, his eyes swollen shut by burns, his poor reattached nose driven back into his face—his airplane’s machine guns, stoked by the heat, started shooting at him”(NYmag 1). This shows that Dahl was fairly good at piloting, but because of circumstances, he crashed in the desert which took him temporarily out of the war. “After he’d recuperated, Dahl was sent to fight in the notorious Battle of Athens, in which twelve or so RAF fighters took on roughly 150 German planes”(NYmag 1). This shows that Dahl got better and because of this he was able to still fly, letting him be back into the war. How this shows that he has done more important things other than children's books is because while yes he did crash in Libya, but he did help serve which in WWII they needed all of the help they could