characters+malene



There are many characters in the novel, his friends, his family, his mother, stepfather, sisters and brother. I’m just going to write about some of them.


 * Harald Dahl** – He is Roald Dahl’s father, but he was not so much in the novel. He was married to Sofie Magdalene, who was Roald Dahl’s mother. Harald Dahl first becomes a father when he was 42 years old and when he was 53 Roald was born. His favourite child was the second eldest girl, but she died early by appendicitis. It was so painful that he died him selves a month later[[image:roald_dd.gif width="237" height="267" align="right"]]. He was a very tough man, because he was a shipbroker even if he lost one of his arms. Oscar Dahl is Harald’s brother and their father refused Oscar and Harald to go to France, but that didn’t stop them to travel to France and they become big businessmen abroad.
 * Roald Dahl** – He sound like a very nice man who had to deal with teachers and older students who beat him, old ladies who was angry with him and many other things. When he went on different schools he was almost homesick all the time, he shows this on the letters he wrote to his mother every week. His mother Sofie Magdalene seems like she was the most central person in Roald Dahl's life, she cared very much of all of her children  and in the novel it seems like Roald loved his mother very much. Although he where homesick most of the time, but I think he lived a happy life, as one of the greatest authors in Britain.
 * Mr. Coombes –** He is the head master and he gave Roald Dahl and his friend a punishment when they had taken a mouse in a sweet jar at a sweet shop.



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