summary of the book

1. MAN FROM THE
SOUTH

2. AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY Roal Dahl
• a British novelist
• short story writer
• fighter pilot
• screenwriter
• he was born in Wales, 1916
• When Roald was four years old, his father died,
• At school, he was always homesick
• After school he didn´t go to the University

3. • He was sent to East Africa
• When the second World War
broke out, he went to Nairobi to
join the Royal Air Force
• In 1942, he went to Washington
as Assistant Air Attaché.
• In 1943, he published
his first children's book

4. • Patricia Neal
• divorced in 1983 and married Felicity Crosland
• Roald Dahl died in November 1990.

5. His
work

6. Summary
• It take place in a hotel in Jamaica

10. Characters
CARLOS
 South American
 around 68 to 70 years old
 Poor man
 Very mysterious
 Has cut 47 fingers and lost 11 cars
 He is irrational, because what is the advantage by cutting off the
finger in the bet

11. The boy
• American cadet from America
who wants to be sailor
• about 19 or 20 years old
• Brave
• little arrogant

12. NARRATOR
• A good man
•The judge of the bet
•He is only to be referee in this story.

13. THE ENGLISH
GIRL
- has a large-boned and
fair-haired
- Quiet girl
- The gilfriend from the boy

14. THE WOMAN
• Small
• black haired
• Old
•Maybe the wife of the old man
• She has not all the fingers, only one finger and the
thumb
• She stopped the bet