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Going Solo Roald Dahl Analysis
In the Autobiography Going Solo by Roald Dahl. Dahl meets a variety of people in his adventures in which in his own perspective gives details about each one. Two of the people in which he describes is Major Griffiths and Mdisho. From the Given details that Roald supplied for us we know what his impression was on each person. For Major Griffiths he came off as an adult with a child spirit and for Mdisho, he was born a warrior.
Each person he has meet has their own personality traits, but Major Griffiths and Mdisho are polar opposites, the one thing they have in common is that they are to some extent uncivilized. Major Griffiths is an adult but has the confidence and "don’t-give-a-damn attitude" of a child. For instance, in the chapter "The
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