An Irregular Bet

“Man from the South” is a short story by Roald Dahl, which is based on a bet of one young man and one old man. First there was this young man that was going to smoke a cigar, when the older man come and start talking of the lighter that the young man has. The bet was that if this young man can run his lighter 10 times without failing we won a Cadilac, but if he doesn't he would lose; his finger…Later on they went to the old man house to complete the bet, they were counting 8 and a women came in the door, she started shouting “Carlos, Carlos!”And take off the knife from the young man hand. The women started asking forgiveness and explain the things of this old man; later she get near the table and everyone can see that she only had a finger and the thumb on his hand.

Roald Dahl uses many unique words that help the reader imagine exactly what is happening in the story, on their minds. For example; 

“…Then he stared shifting about in his seat, and rubbing his chest, and stroking the back of his neck, and finally he placed both hands on his knees and began tapping his against his knee-caps soon he was tapping with one of his feet as well…”(4)

This example makes by the use of specific actions that the man is doing so we can imagine the old man really unsettled and moving a lot, this is a example of feeling because he is touching all of his body and we know that because he uses words like "rubbing" or tapping”. We can infer that the man is anxious and I think that is because the bet they are going to make. The author uses many adjectives to describe the characters, settings and everything that is happening on the story. Like for example the description of the old man Roald Dahl said;

 "Just then I noticed a small, oldish man walking briskly around the edge of the pool. He was immaculately dressed in a white suit and he walked very quickly with little bouncing strides, pushing himself high up onto his toes with each step. He had on a large creamy panama hat, and he came bouncing along the side of the pool, looking at the people and the chairs.”(1)

This can show us the type of person and the personality in general of this man. With his suit and his panama we can imagine him as a reach and fine person and we can imagine that the way he wins all his money, is by the bets he make.

In conclusion I think that Roald Dahl story "Man from the South" is very interesting and have a unique theme and idea of the story. This teaches us that we don’t need to talk or make anything with strangers specially bets. Also make us realize that young people are very risk takers like the American boy that for winning something good he risk another thing that can be more important.

Release not what we though

The plan that The Giver thought of

With all Jonas training for being the new receiver he is starting to question for what is the school, he stopped taking the pills and he is starting to do bad things that are against the community rules. They were playing a war game and Jonas discuss with Asher about this. This was because Jonas knew the memorie of war and it isn't really just a joke or game but if they would knew what it is and wouldn't think the same. Jonas was always interested in the word release, what does it mean? Until finally he ask to the Giver, they start talking about this until they saw a video of the morning release. It was his father in the release of the twins, he saw it and he get shocked. Release isn't just that they go to elsewhere but, they are killed. They don't really know what are they doing but is just their job. It was such a shock to Jonas that he stay with the Giver to sleep so he can explain and they can talk some more. One of this thing they talked was who was the other receiver of memories, the one that failed. The Giver told him she was Rosemary and that her failure has some part his fault. She get one painful memory and she just didn't accept it and asked for release. There comes the problems, when she was released memories were also and they returned to the community that was a huge problem for all the community. From that incident the rules for being a receiver come and that’s why he can’t apply for release. The release of Rosemary was such a painful thing for the Giver because she was his daughter. Later on they had a plan so they can free all the community and they can have memories.  

Rosemary with the Giver relationship

The importance of the receiver of memories inn the community is very big. They need it for everything and especially for taking decision that they don’t know. Like in page 144 were they were talking about Rosemary and how her release affected everyone, "You just stay away from the river, my friend ," he said. "The community lost Rosary after five weeks and it was a disaster for them. I don’t now what the community would do if they lost you." This quote mean much and tell us all the importance that the receiver has in the community. If they would loos him or release him it would be worst for all the people in it. Because all memories will come back and there would be chaos. This make me think more of Rosemary. How she was and why she didn’t have the braveness to keep being the receiver of memories. Rosemary was The Giver daughters and his loss was a really huge impact on the Givers life, I think that he treat Jonas lie to Rosemary as if he was his son too. 

Colors returning

We are getting to the final of the book and we have many important things are happening on the book.We already know what the word release mean and that is death in other words. My prion f what is going to happen next is that they are going to do the plan that they has but it isn't going to be so simple.They are going to have many problems and people of the community will try to stop him. Also I thought that he isn't just going to go alone but ask to his friends if they want to join him. At the final they would achieve what they want and that would be the end of the story.