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The Umbrella Man- Roald Dahl **__Group 6__** Kreshya Scott-Viota Julia Robinson Isabelle Slavin Jade Rockliff Group Questions __ **Question 1- Julia Robinson** __ A 12 year old girl and her mother leave the cafe after having a cup of coffee and a banana split. As they leave the cafe it pours down rain, and they wait for a taxi but all the ones that go past are full. As they stand in the rain a short old man approaches them with a white moustache and bushy white eyebrows. The old man seems a little suss to the mother, as he offers her a silk umbrella, in exchange for on pound. Once he gets his money the old man runs down the street turning in all directions and the mother and daughter follow him and he takes them on an adventure. They realise that the old man is quiet cheeky and smart.

**__Question 2-Jade__** Neat (drink termanology)- undiluted alcohol He sat down and ordered himself neat whiskey from the barman Treble (drinking termanology)- three times as great or many he made a claim to his friend for treble damages. simper- to smile in a silly, self-conscious way. the young boy simpered away in the corner while the teacher yelled at him.

**__Question 4-Kreshya Scott Viota__** **__Question 6-Isabelle Slavin__** The scene is not important at the start of the story but as the story prgresses it is needed more and more. The story starts of with a twelve your old girl going to the dentist with her mum and then to a cafe to have a banana split with no mention of the scenery. It then starts raining and this plays a pivitol role because without the rain there is no story. The girl and her mother encounter a little old man who offers to give his umbrella to them for one pound becaus his legs are tired and he need sthe money to get a taxi home. They accept but then see him run off so they follow him. He goes to a bar and they see him spend the money on a drink. The bar plays a major role in the story because without it the girl and her mother wouldn’t have found out his secret. They watch him take out the pound note that the girl’s mother gave the man and paid for a drink. The bar is described as plate-glass window along the front of the pub and the inside of the glass was a bit steamy.The bar was a bit full of people and cigarette smoke. They then discover that the little man steals umbrellas from a pub then sells it for a pound and then goes to another to spend the pound on a drink. The rain plays a pivtol role because without the rain there would be no umbrellas for the man to steal. This is a quote from the story that shows how inportant the rain is my mother said. "Of course. But I'll bet he prays like mad for rainy days."

Individual Questions 3- 5- 7- **__Julia Robinson__** 3- Our story relates to the outside world because it shows us that not everybody is innocent even though they might look nice and friendly they are liars. These people try to make us feel sorry for them, so they get something in return, weather it be money (in most cases it is), clothes or food. The man in this story fooled the mother and daughter into giving him money, and he offered them an umbrella because it was raining. He persuaded them into giving him money, and they did. The man told them he needed money for a taxi ride home but he was a fraud and as soon as the money was placed in his hands he ran to the pub and got himself a whiskey. This does happen to people in our everyday lives, people like this self centred man basically steal money from people for all the wrong reasons. Some people that do this want food or clothes but there’s other people who want to buy drugs, alcohol and cigarettes. 5- 7- I chose this image because it represents the old man standing in the rain waiting for people to go past with no umbrella and he can give it to them. Although the umbrella isn't silk it still shows him waiting for people to walk past in the rain, and the traffic looks busy which it states in the story. (I got this image from google)
 * __Kreshya Scott-Viota__**

3-I think our story relates to the outside world because I think it shows that no matter how nice someone seems they could actually be doing you harm. There are a lot of people in our world that scam people for things that they need. It might be money, food, an addiction and clothes. Also in the world today people will do anything for something they really crave. It may a drug addict robbing someone just so they can buy more or just an old man wanting his craving for whisky to be relieved. Although stealing an umbrella isn’t the same as robbing someone it is the same idea. Taking something to help them get what they want. 5- "Fancy paying a pound for something you swallow in one go!" I chose this sentence to analyse because I think that this line contains a deeper meaning. I think this sentence is explaining that the old man in this story might have an alcohol problem. This is because he is not really enjoying his drink if he swallows in one go without tasting it. It sound like he has set out to get drunk instead of enjoying it. This sentence also gives the meaning that he is swallowing it quickly so he can hurry and sell another umbrella for the thrill of it. The old man is not focused on the drink but on the fun he is having scamming people. 7- I chose this image because it depicts the man waiting with an umbrella, even though it is raining to try and sell it. The man looks like he is well off and I think this is what the man in the story would look like. The man in the story is very charming and polite and seems to get his way becuase he can talk his way into people doing things for him like selling umbrellas. This man in the image looks like he is up to no good.
 * __Isabelle Slavin__ **

**__Jade Rockliff__** 3- This story can relate back to someone who isn't so truthful in life, some people scam there way through things they have to do, be it their jobs or just talking their way through conversations with people and not being completetly honest. There are some people who know how to talk and persuade other people to give them what they want. There are always people throughout life that can manipulate other just like the man in this short story to make sure that they get what they want. there are some people who scam others into giving them money, food or clothes this can happen alot in the city.

5- " She is a suspicious person, my mother. She is especially suspicious of two things - strange men and boiled eggs. When she cuts the top off a boiled egg, she pokes around inside it with her spoon as though expecting to find a mouse or something." i I chose this sentence becuase i thought it was funny and an unusual thing for a person to be suspicious of hard boiled eggs. I thought it was a funny piece of writing. I don't really think this line has a particularly deeper meaning, I think it was just written to entertain and for a bit of sillyness. Because seriously, who's going to expect something to jump out at you from a hard boiled egg?

7- This an image of Frank Sinatra, as soon as i read the story i pictured the old man as a gentelman who dresses well and is very polite. I imagined him to be very sophisticated, well educated and able to talk his way through things and able to charm people into giving what he needed. I found this image through google.