Post A Week 5

Vocabulary:
Supercilious;(169)
haughtily disdainful or contemptuous, as a person or a facial expression.
Sombre:(171)
gloomily dark; shadowy; dimly lighted
Appeals:

1. One appeal is when Roalds mother asks him if he wants to go to college. "no, thank youu," I said. "i want to go stright from school to work for a company that will send me to wonderful faraway places like Africa or China." (166) This shows how much Roald wants adventure.

2.Another appeal is after Roald gets beaten for no reason, he gives up his faith in God. "It was all of this, I think, that made me give begin to have doubts about religion and even about God. If this person, I kept telling myself, was one of God's chosen salesmen on earth, then there must be something very wrong about the whole business."(146)

3. The last appeal is humorous. When asked by his employer if he wants to go to Egypt, Roald responds. "It's.. it's.. it's, I stammered, it's too dusty sir." (172) This is funny because that is a very poor excuse to not go somewhere.

Quote:"But that is another story. It has nothing to do with childhood or school or Gobstoppers or dead mice or Beazers or summer holidays of Norway. it is a different tale altogether, and if it all goes well, i may have a shot at telling it one of these days." (176) This pretty much sums up the feeling of the mamoir.

Themes: The theme of this book is childhood.