Dannythechampionoftheworld.docx

1、DannythechampionoftheworldCatalogueAbstract2Key words2Text2Conclusion6AbstractDanny was only four months old when his mother died and lived with his widowed father William in a Gypsy caravan, where William operates a filling station and garage.This book used first person to tell the stories between

2、the father and the son.Key words: Father, Son, Champion, WorldText To be frank, I do not like reading very much. By chance, one of my foreign teacher introduced this book to me, he said this book is written for children, so it was attractive and east to understand. I was suspicious so I took a quick

3、 look of it. Surprisingly, I was addicted in to this book. Just as what my teacher told me, it is a book for children, but not only for children. This book first published in 1975, the author was Roald Dahl, a famous story teller. He was a British novelist, short story writer, fighter pilot and scre

4、enwriter. He was born in Wales to Norwegian parents, he served in the Royal Air Force during the Second World War, in which he became a flying ace and intelligence agent, rising to the rank of Wing Commander. Dahl rose to prominence in the 1940s with works for both children and adults, and became on

5、e of the worlds best-selling authors. He has been referred to as one of the greatest storytellers for children of the 20th century. In 2008 The Times placed Dahl 16th on its list of The 50 greatest British writers since 1945. His short stories are known for their unexpected endings, and his children

6、s books for their unsentimental, often very dark humour. A major part of Dahls literary influences stemmed from his childhood. In his younger days, he was an avid reader, especially awed by fantastic tales of heroism and triumph. Amongst his favourite authors were Rudyard Kipling, William Makepeace

7、Thackeray, Frederick Marryat and Charles Dickens, and their works went on to make a lasting mark on his life and writing. Dahl was also a huge fan of ghost stories and claimed that Trolls by Jonas Lie was one of the finest ghost stories ever written. While he was still a youngster, his mother, Sofie

8、 Dahl, would relate traditional Norwegian myths and legends from her native homeland to Dahl and his sisters. Dahl always maintained that his mother and her stories had a strong influence on his writing. In one interview, he mentioned: She was a great teller of tales. Her memory was prodigious and n

9、othing that ever happened to her in her life was forgotten. When Dahl started writing and publishing his famous books for children, he created a grandmother character in The Witches and later stated that she was based directly on his own mother as a tribute. Refers to the content of this book, the p

10、lot main centers on a young English boy, Danny, and his father, William, who live in a Gypsy vardo fixing cars for a living and partake in poaching pheasants. The story is based on Dahls adult short story Champion of the World which appears in Clauds Dog. Danny was only four months old when his moth

11、er died and lived with his widowed father William in a Gypsy caravan, where William operates a filling station and garage, which alone of the surrounding land is not owned by the unpleasant local landlord, Mr. Victor Hazell. When Mr. Hazell threatens Danny without cause, William refuses to serve him

12、; whereafter several inspectors visit the station, presumably at Mr. Hazells direction. When Danny is only nine years old, he discovers that William has habitually taken part in poaching pheasants from Mr. Hazells estate. William reveals methods of poaching, by placing a raisin inside a Sticky Hat,

13、so that the pheasant cannot flee, and by having a horses tailhair, threaded through a raisin, cause the raisin to become lodged in the pheasants throat. This in turn causes the pheasant to become preoccupied with trying to swallow the raisin, so that a poacher can easily catch it. On one occasion, D

14、anny, waking up at around 2:10 a.m., discovers Williams absence, and fearing that some misfortune has befallen him, drives an Austin Seven motor car to Hazells Wood, where Danny eventually found William in a pit-trap, disabled by a broken ankle, and brings him home. William is treated by Doc Spencer

15、, who is a friend of theirs and another poacher on Mr. Hazells estate. While William is recovering from his injury, he and Danny found out that Mr. Hazells annual pheasant-shooting party is approaching, which he hosts to curry favor and prestige among the gentry, and decide to humiliate him by lurin

16、g all the pheasants away from the forest, so there will be no pheasants to shoot. Danny suggests that he and William should put the contents of sleeping tablets prescribed by Doc Spencer inside raisins which the pheasants will then eat; and William dubs this new method the Sleeping Beauty. Having po

17、ached 120 pheasants from Hazells Wood, William and Danny hide the drugged pheasants at the local vicars house, while they took a taxicab home. The next day, the vicars wife delivers the sleeping pheasants in a specially-built oversized baby carriage. As she is walking toward them, the pheasants atte

18、mpt to escape, but they fall back. With the help of Sgt. Samways, the local constable, William and Danny herd the groggy birds onto Mr. Hazells Rolls Royce, where the birds scratch the paintwork and defecate on his car. When the pheasants have woken completely, they depart, and Mr. Hazell drives off

19、 in disgrace, his fancy car and shooting party ruined. The book ends when Danny is hailed as the champion of the world by William, Doc Spencer, and Sgt. Samways, of whom most acquire several pheasants who had died of taking too many sleeping-pills. William and Danny walk off towards town, intending

20、to buy a new oven for cooking their pheasants. As they go, Danny dwells in his narration on Williams imagination and vivacity. After reading this book, I was deeply touched by Danny and his father, William.Danny is an unlucky kid-he did not get love from his mother in his childhood. On the other han

21、d, Danny is a lucky kid-because he has a father which loved him so much. While I was reading the stories happened to them, I remember a lot of memories between my father and I.I think many people have the similar experiences that, in childhood, father can do everything. He uses his solid arms to lif

22、t us up high to the top of his head, protects us from the wind and rain with wide shoulder, and regardless of any question cant baffle him. However, when we grow up increasingly, we find that he is not clear with everything, and ever more, sometimes, we know better than him. One day, we may quarrel

23、with him for the different thoughts on something, and cool-war may happen to make him sad. We feel that he is just one of the crowd and we are strong enough to get out of the way he wants us to go, and want to prove that he is wrong and we are right. Fathers seldom say I love you though the feelings

24、 always there. However, those three little words are the hardest ones to share, and fathers say I love you in ways that words cant match. With tender bedtime stories -Or a friendly game of catch! You can see the words I love you in a fathers boyish eyes when he runs home excitedly, with a poorly wra

25、pped surprise. A father says I love you with his strong helping hands, with a smile when youre in trouble, and with the way he understands. He says I love you haltingly with awkward tenderness (Its hard to help a four-year-old into a party dress!)He speaks his love unselfishly. By giving that all he

26、 can to make some secret dream come true, or follow through a plan. A fathers seldom-spoken love sounds clearly through the years, sometimes in peals of laughter and sometimes through happy tears. Perhaps they have to speak their love in a fashion all their own. Because the love that fathers feel is

27、 too big for words alone! Many years later, maybe, when become parents, and face the difficulty and frustration. We find that, actually, they are right many times. A fathers love is more deeply than we think. People always say that mothers love is the greatest thing in the world. Actually I prefer t

28、o say that parents love is the greatest thing in the world. Our mother and father both love us, the only difference between fathers love and mothers love is their way to express. Here I want to tell a story. When I was in junior high school, one of my relatives passed away. So my mother went to her

29、hometown to attend the funeral. She left home for one week, that means my father need to cook for himself for every meal(because I lived in school at that time, I came back home once a week). I did not know what is my fathers life like with the food he cooked for himself. But when I went back home o

30、n weekend, he tried his best to prepare a good meal for me. He is not a good cook, I admit so, but I knew he did his best to cook for me. When I was eating, he stared at me, seems he was trying to get a sincere evaluation. I told him that I like the food he cooked, he smiled happily and then began t

31、o eat. There was a dish which was over cooked, so part of the dish was burned. I noticed that my father picked all the burned part into his own bowl and left the good part for me. I was moved by what he did. After that, I asked him what did he eat during the past days. He answered he ate instant noo

32、dle nearly every meal. I almost cry at that time, because I thought if I did not come back on weekend, he would continue eating instant noodle. He never said anything related to love to me, but I felt strongly that he loved me in his own way. I used to saw a letter from a father to his son. He wrote like thisDear Ari, As you sleep in my arms,Im amazed at how light you feel.I stare at your tiny body,so fragile that a sudden wind could lift you up into the air.I love thie feel of protecting,you and dreaming of all I have