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Roald Dahl
He was born in Llandaff, Wales on September 13th 1916. His parents were Norwegian and Roald was their only son. Roald was unhappy at school and this had a big influence on his writing (Matilda).
At 23, war broke out. He signed up with the Royal Air Force and was accepted as a pilot officer (Going solo). During the war he was sent home as an invalid.
His first book for children was ‘The Gremlins’ in 1943. His real career as a children’s book author began in the 1960’s, after he had become a father himself. In the meantime he wrote short stories for adults (Lamb to the slaughter). For these stories he won the Edgar Award from the mystery writers of America.
Roald Dahl became a very successful writer. His second book ‘Charlie and the chocolate factory sold over 2 million copies. His other books also became bestsellers.
Other famous works:
• The witches
• James and the giant peach
• The BFG
• Boy

The story
Danny is a 9-year old Boy whose mother died when he was 4 months old. Danny and his father live in an old caravan behind a filling station with 2 pumps. It is Danny’s father’s filling station.
At the age of 7 Danny has to go to school. Danny doesn’t want to go because he wants to stay with his father and repair engines. For his 9th birthday Danny gets a car made from several large soapboxes.
At a certain night, Danny wakes up in the middle of the night. He looks for his father but can’t find him. He starts searching for his father near the filling station but he isn’t there. Two hours later his father comes back. His father was in Hazell’s wood where he was poaching pheasants. From then on, Danny’s father tells him when he will be poaching.
A few days later Mr Hazel comes to the filling station. He is very mean to Danny and Danny’s father refuses to serve him. For Mr Hazel this means war. Next day, an inspector from the local Department of Health arrives to inspect the caravan. The inspector can’t find anything and leaves. Later another inspector turns up to take a sample of petrol but there was nothing wrong with the petrol. Now Danny’s father has even more pleasure with poaching in Mr Hazell’s wood.
One night when Danny’s father goes poaching, he doesn’t come back. Danny is really worried and takes the car to look for his father. He drives to Hazell’s wood. He finds his father in a deep hole that was dug by the supervisors of Hazell’s wood. The hole was dug as an ambush for poachers and because it was dark Danny’s father couldn’t see it. Danny helps his father to get out. It isn’t easy because the hole is very deep and the supervisors know that Danny’s father fell in the hole. The supervisors are looking for help to get him out and to take him to Mr Hazel. So Danny has to be very quick. He takes the rope out of the car to help his father escape. It works. Although Danny’s father broke his foot they get out of the wood before the supervisors are back.
Next day the doctor comes to look at his foot. Danny tells the doctor what happened and he understands perfectly. He also used to poach. Because the foot of Danny’s father hurts he gives him some sleeping pills. Danny’s father hates sleeping pills and he doesn’t take them.
Danny’s father is really mad. He wants to play a trick on Mr Hazel. Danny’s father wants to poach all the pheasants just before Mr Hazel is giving a poaching party for all his rich friends. His friends will come from all over the country and they can poach 1 day in Mr Hazell’s wood. Danny has an idea. He wants to take the pheasants away without killing them. Danny’s father still has the sleeping pills because he was too proud to take them. Danny tells his father they have to put the sleeping pills in 200 raisins. Pheasants love to eat raisins so the idea must work. After they have been eating the raisins the pheasants will fall asleep and Danny and his father can take the peasants with them.
Friday Danny and his father will go to Hazell’s wood to poach the 200 pheasants. They fill the raisins with sleeping pills and because Danny has to help his father with the raisins he can stay home and his father closes the filling station.
Friday night they both go out poaching. They leave the raisins with the pheasants and wait until it gets dark. The supervisors see Danny and his father and they ask them what they are doing. They tell him they were enjoying the fresh air and that they were just walking. The supervisor doesn’t believe them but he leaves them alone and tell them to leave Hazell’s wood. Danny and his father tell the supervisor they will leave. Of course they don’t leave but they try to hide somewhere else. They keep very still and go to the pheasants when the supervisor goes home.
They go back to the pheasants and just when they arrive the first pheasants falls out of the trees. Danny and his father can catch 120 pheasants. They take them with them to a taxi they ordered. The taxi driver is a good friend of Danny’s father. So he won’t tell anyone else about what they have been doing. They bring all the pheasants to Mrs Grace Clipstone, the wife of reverend Clipstone. She wants to help Danny and his father to hide the sleeping pheasants.
Back home Danny’s father wants to make a deep- freeze to keep the pheasants fresh. Later he can give them to his friends who helped them to poach the pheasants. Next day Mrs Clipstone wants to bring the pheasants back to Danny. But when she almost reaches the filling station the pheasants wake up and fly away. Because they are still sleepy they fly to the filling station. Just as they fly away Mr Hazel arrives at the filling station. When he sees the pheasants he goes mad. The pheasants fly to Mr Hazel’s car and he wants to take them with him. When he starts the car the pheasants fly away and they are free. Danny wanted this. His father and Danny are very happy.

Characters

• Danny: he is not like other 9 year old boys. He helps his father with repairing and helps him poaching. Danny is spoiled with love. He is an only child and his mother died. His father taught him to make decisions and Danny can do the household. He is always honest and wants the best for everyone. He loves animals.
• His father: his father is a lonely man. He is loved by the people in town but likes to be with his son. He is a very good dad. Because his wife died, he tries everything to make Danny happy. He has all the love of the world for Danny and his friends but he hasn’t got many material things. He is a well respected man.