Roald Dahl’s Likes and Dislikes
As a young boy, Roald Dahl loved to eat candy. When he was nine years old, he and his four friends would walk from school together, straight to the sweet-shop. Every day they would come in and buy as much candy as they had money to spend, even though the owner, Mrs Pratchett, had a vile attitude and grimy hands that grabbed the candy out of the jars. They didn’t even mind that one of the kids heard from his dad that the licorice Bootlaces were made from squashed mouse parts.
Roald also found it very fun to think up evil schemes. The woman who ran the sweet-shop, Mrs Pratchett, was universally hated by the boys, and they swore to eventually get back at her. One day, Roald and his friends found a dead mouse in …show more content…
It is evident that Roald hates this punishment because he talks about if for almost a fourth of the book and says that he couldn’t get over it and that he was appalled that teachers were allowed to wound young children. He was caned by a teacher at every school he went to save preschool, with some of the experiences seeming very unfair. Even at the time he wrote this book, he was still experiencing pain from the bruises of the …show more content…
These boys trusted each other and were all close friends over a communal hatred of the Matron and other teachers. They all trusted each other and treated them with respect. For example, when one of the boys pulled a prank on the Matron and got the whole school punished, his friends stood behind him and encouraged him not to tell. Another time, Roald was unfairly punished when he asked a student next to him for an extra pen while they were taking a test. One boy went through the trouble to write a letter about this unfair happening to his dad because Roald didn’t have a dad to write letters to, and Roald remembered this kind act for the rest of his
As a young boy, Roald Dahl loved to eat candy. When he was nine years old, he and his four friends would walk from school together, straight to the sweet-shop. Every day they would come in and buy as much candy as they had money to spend, even though the owner, Mrs Pratchett, had a vile attitude and grimy hands that grabbed the candy out of the jars. They didn’t even mind that one of the kids heard from his dad that the licorice Bootlaces were made from squashed mouse parts.
Roald also found it very fun to think up evil schemes. The woman who ran the sweet-shop, Mrs Pratchett, was universally hated by the boys, and they swore to eventually get back at her. One day, Roald and his friends found a dead mouse in …show more content…
It is evident that Roald hates this punishment because he talks about if for almost a fourth of the book and says that he couldn’t get over it and that he was appalled that teachers were allowed to wound young children. He was caned by a teacher at every school he went to save preschool, with some of the experiences seeming very unfair. Even at the time he wrote this book, he was still experiencing pain from the bruises of the …show more content…
These boys trusted each other and were all close friends over a communal hatred of the Matron and other teachers. They all trusted each other and treated them with respect. For example, when one of the boys pulled a prank on the Matron and got the whole school punished, his friends stood behind him and encouraged him not to tell. Another time, Roald was unfairly punished when he asked a student next to him for an extra pen while they were taking a test. One boy went through the trouble to write a letter about this unfair happening to his dad because Roald didn’t have a dad to write letters to, and Roald remembered this kind act for the rest of his