Many From The South By Roald Dahl

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The short story “Many From The South” written by Roald Dahl is about a bet between an old foreign man and a young American boy. The story takes places at a hotel in Jamaica and is told from a first persons perspective. Throughout the story you never find exactly who the person is that is telling the story but you can see that he is a good man. The genre of the story would be a personal narrative because it is a story being told by a man. The story begins as just a normal story but as it continues, it becomes odd and eerie. The story starts with a man enjoying his normal day at a hotel in Jamaica. As he is relaxing, a little man with a thick accent named Carlos, approaches him. As they are sitting and talking, a younger American man approaches them and sits to talk as well. When the young man is sitting and talking he lights a cigarette. The old man saw this and proceeded to make a bet that his lighter will not light ten times in a row. If the lighter lights ten times, the young boy can have Carlos’s Cadillac. If not, the old man will take his finger. After a small debate, the young man decides to agree to the bet and they make their way up to Carlos’s hotel room. In the hotel room Carlos gives them martinis then creates a little contraption that will make it easy for him to chop his finger off as soon as the lighter fails. The narrator found this odd and started to think that the old man had experience and don’t this before. On the eighth try, a woman burst into the room
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