Tales of Childhood

Boy - Tales Of Childhood

By Roald Dahl

Chapter 1

Roald tells about his dad, how he was nearly seven feet tall, how he became one of the richest men in town by starting up a shipyard business with a friend, and how his wife, Marie, died from her second birth. After his wife died, Harald Dahl (Roald's father) found that the two children needed a stepmother. He met a Norwegian lady called Sofia Magdalene Hesselburg and they soon fell in love and got married. During the next six years she bore him four new children: 3 girls, and Roald. Now there were six children in the family. Then, in 1918, they moved into a country mansion beside the village of Radyr.

Chapter 2

In 1920 Roald's real eldest sister died from appendicitis. She was seven years old when she died. Soon after, Roald's father caught pneumonia, and died five days later. Though Roald's mother was Norwegian, she stayed and kept Roald in an English school. As soon as Roald turned six, he was put into kindergarten. Two sisters ran the kindergarten. He talks about how you would have had free reign of the highway with your bike, since a car was a rare occurrence.

Chapter 3

When Roald turned seven he went to a preparatory school called Llandaff Cathedral. He begins to make friends and starts to like two products in a local candy store: Sherbet Suckers, and Licorice Boots. Roald had many interesting questions about life, but luckily, all of his friends were there to mislead Roald. One of these mysteries of life was: How do they get the gobstopper to change color? His friends of course didn't know, so they fed him a lie that they thought was true as always.

Chapter 4

Basically, this chapter is all about a prank that Roald and his friends pulled on the mean old lady who owned the candy store, Mrs. Pratchet. Here's how it all went down: First, one of his friends distracted Mrs. Pratchet by buying something, while Roald slipped a dead mouse they had found into the jar of gobstoppers.

Chapter 5

The next morning, all involved in the prank met in the morning to walk early to school, and

perhaps pass the candy shop. As they passed the candy shop, they tried to casually peer into it, but find that Mrs. Pratchet wasn't there, and that the gobstoppers jar was on the floor, broken. One of Roald's