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And now it's time again...time for force innocent people to read my english assignments and correct my misstakes *blink*
I would highly appreciate it....this time it's a book report that I need to give to my teacher thursday morning ^^

Danny, the champion of the world

Author – Roald Dahl
Year of publication – 1975
Genre – adventure for children

Danny’s mother died when Danny was only four month old. He is the only child and is brought up by his loving father William. They live in a gipsy caravan behind the filling station that they own. The station is situated on the English countryside surrounded by woody hills and fields. Danny loves his father more than anything in the world, and he loves Danny. They are quite poor but they love their life. They wont switch it with anyone for anything. Danny is a handy and smart kid who learned everything he can by his father. He could tear a small engine apart and put it back together at the age of seven. Though he doesn’t remember his mother, he misses her. According to William Danny’s mother was the nicest woman in the world. Danny doesn’t have many friends that he spends time with after school, because he always want to be with his father.

One night when Danny wakes up his father is gone. It turns out that he have been poaching pheasants in the forest belonging the grumpy, fat and rich Victor Hazell, who no one likes. Almost everybody in the small town are, or has been, involved in the act of stealing his pheasants. It was the first time since Danny’s birth nine years ago that his father went poaching. William is a fantastic story-teller and when he tells Danny about the beauty of poaching Danny wants to join him. He comes up with a great idea to fulfill his fathers dream; to catch all the 240 pheasants before the great shooting part of mr Hazell’s . They should take a bunch of raisins, because pheasants are crazy about raisins, soak them and fill them with sleeping powder. In that way the pheasants will fly up to roost in the trees, the keepers will go home so they wont be any threat to the poachers, and when the sleeping powder start to work the pheasants will figuratively speaking rain down from the trees. And then they just need to pick them up. It’s a brilliant plan, but will it really work?

The ending of the story was surprising and I became a bit disapointed because it didn’t turned out the way I wanted it to, but when I thought about it afterwards it was amusing. I thought the book was quite good but maybe to easy. I think the book suits younger people better because it’s about a young boy, nine years old, that we older teenagers really can’t connect too. It’s a short book that is very easy too read. The language is not too hard and the story is not too complicated.
I’m also the kind of person who prefer stories told by an omnicient narrator, and not in the I-form like this book. I wan’t to get different characters’s view about a certain event. But I didn’t dislike the book either. It was sweet and had a nice message; that you can, and should, be happy with what you have. You don’t need much money or possessions as long as you have friends and a family who you love and who loves you. But I don’t think that many people are as lucky as Danny, to have a father who you rather spend time with than any of your friends.