Lets Play Chop Chop

In Roald Dahl's  short story, "Man From the South", has a protagonist an American boy and a sir with some rare accent, he might be Spanish or English. The setting take place in a Jamaican beach were the american and this sir with rare accent that love to bet were sited, suddenly the american boy takes his lighter with his cigar, he start to smoke. The spanish man bet him, they bet because the cadet say that american lighter never fails. This bet consist in if the American boy light his lighter ten times in a row he would get a Cadillac car, but if he couldnt light his american lighter, then the sir with rare accent will chopped his pinkey.  Both accept the bet, they went to see the Cadillac if it was true and the Spanish man get the chopping knife. Finally, they start the bet, the american boy with some nervous stopped in trial 8 because it enter a woman, apparently the wife of this crazy man. She explained to the cadet that he was obsessed with betting and that he has a collection of all type of fingers. The lady taking action of his husband acts, give the American boy the Cadillac that result that was from the lady. When this honorable lady put the keys on the table the american cadet find out he was missing two of her fingers.

Roald Dahls profession is best for characterization than for imagery from my point of view, but not matter what, he would draw you an image in your mind. In this paragraph he uses very well imagery, here it is a great example:

It was a fine garden with lawns and beds of azaleas and tall coconut palms, and the wind was blowing strongly through the tops of the palm trees making the leaves hiss and crackle as though they were on fire. I could see the clusters of big brown nuts handing down underneath the leaves.

In these few sentences he uses the more common senses that almost every writer dominates at all. Dahl uses the sight and the sound to describe how tall the coconut tree is and how leaves crackle as they were on fire. Now I can definitely make a picture in my head of how this Jamaican Beach looks like. 

As I mentioned earlier, Roald does a great job describing different characters of the story. To demonstrate the audience why my way of thinking, here is a clear example: 

Just then I noticed a small, oldish man walking briskly around the edge of the pool. He was immaculately dressed in a white suit and he walked very quickly with little bouncing strides, pushing himself high up onto his toes with each step. He had on a large creamy Panama hat, and he came bouncing along the side of the pool, looking at the people and the chairs.

This paragraph was the greatest example of why Roald Dahl for me is better for characterization. In a not to long paragraph he describes even as how he walks. The audience by this quote can infer that this crazy sir is elegant because of his suit and his panama hat but also that he has money. To sum up, the author demonstrate the readers of how this oldish man is solvent thanks to his way of walking and looking to near people. 

 I think this short story leaves the audience a great message that all people should follow since it it our daily life and occurs all aorund the world. The message consist in not always trust other people because they can have other principles, way of thinking and this after all it can harm you. At first is your life and then it comes material things. To conclude, characterization and imagery is what makes the sotry interesting and also creates a desire of keeping reading.