Boy (Masterplots II: Juvenile and Young Adult Biography Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Roald Dahl
- First Published: 1984
- Time of Work: 1820–1936
- Setting: Norway, France, Wales, England, and East Africa
- Principal Characters: Roald Dahl, Harald Dahl, Sofie Magdalene Hesselberg Dahl, Thwaites, Mrs. Pratchett, Mr. Coombes, Captain Hardcastle
- Genres: Nonfiction, Autobiography
- Subjects: Maturation or coming of age, Memory, Authors or writers, Autobiography, Schools or school life, England or English people, Storytelling, Amputation, amputees, or prosthetics
- Locales: Africa, France, England, Wales, Norway
Form and Content
In a prefatory note to Boy: Tales of Childhood, Roald Dahl asserts that “an autobiography is a book a person writes about his own life and it is usually full of all sorts of boring details. This is not an autobiography.” He thus immediately presents his intention to the reader: not to bore. Rather, eschewing standard autobiographical procedure, Dahl offers a series of childhood tales recounting events that “made such a tremendous impression on me that I have never been able to get them out of my mind.” Boy is less an autobiography than a...
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