Compare And Contrast Miss Trefusis And U. N Savory

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Roald Dahl was on a trip from England to Africa and while he was on his trip he encountered many odd people. Miss Trefusis and U.N Savory are some of the people he met while he was on his trip. U.N. Savory was a wig-loving person but was afraid to show that he wore them. Miss Trefusis was a toe-hating, finger-hating, germ-hating old woman that often sat at the same dining-room table as Roald. They were both strange people, but everyone on the ship was strange as well.
Roald met Miss Trefusis because she usually sat at the same dining-room table as him. Miss Trefusis was an old woman that owned a small coffee farm in the highlands of Kenya. Although the one thing that made Miss Trefusis odd was that she hating germs, fingers, and toes. Roald …show more content…

Savory. He was Roald's cabin companion while on his trip. One night while U.N. Savory was dressing, Roald was on his bunk with half opened eyes he saw U.N. Savory do something suspicious. On paragraph 86, Roald wrote, "...I saw him reaching into his sponge-bag and take out a small carton" and he "...took the lid off the carton and dipped his fingers into it. The fingers came out with a pinch of white powder or crystals, and this stuff he proceeded to sprinkle very carefully over the shoulders of his dinner-jacket". Roald found this strange because in paragraph 87 he wrote, "What on earth was the man up to?" Roald was "fully alert" and found what U.N. Savory did strange. Roald later found out that U.N. Savory was bald, so he wore wigs. U.N. Savory responded in paragraph 120, "I do it purely for business reasons". U.N. Savory wore wigs because he worked in Amritsar and was a Sikh. Since he was Sikh he needed to have hair because Sikhs don’t respect bald men. Roald thought U.N. Savory was strange because on paragraph 140 he wrote, "I stared at him. The man was stark raving barmy". On paragraph 142 Roald wrote, "I flew out of the cabin and shut the door". Since Roald "flew" out of the cabin it means that he didn't want to be in the room with crazy U.N. Savory anymore.
Roald Dahl met many strange people while on his trip to Africa, but Miss Trefusis and U.N. Savory were two of the people he met that appeared stranger than others. Roald also thought these people were unusual, so he wanted to tell readers the stories of Miss Trefusis and U.N. Savory's oddness. He told readers about Miss Trefusis being a germophobic person and U.N. Savory being a wig-lover. He had written about many other people's oddness, but these two people were the

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