Roald Dahl and PIG by Béatrice G.

Cécile , Vincent, Andrea , Marine et Amandine

2018-11-23 09:21:37 UTC

Chilhood : Roald Dahl was born September 13, 1916, in Llandaff, South Wales, United Kingdom, to Norwegian parents. He spent his childhood summers visiting his grandparents in Oslo, Norway. His father died when Dahl was four. Dahl first attended Llandaff Cathedral School, where he began a series of unfortunate adventures in school
He was a young troublemaker So Dahl's mother moved him to St. Peter's Boarding School and later to Repton, an excellent private school.
Dahl would later describe his school years as "days of horrors"

Hévéa

2018-11-23 09:21:38 UTC

Aunt Glosspan is 70 but looks half her age. She's happy all the time.
She lives in the mountains and has a vegetable garden.

She's a vegetarian and makes Lexington a vegetarian too.

She dies agitated because afflicted in the night by a violent seizure.

Giraud & Ramirez : Intro

2018-11-23 09:21:49 UTC

Roald Dahl is one of the favorite authors in the UK of the 20th Century and he's very famous for his special dark humour that he likes to put into short stories.
The basic components of dark humour are based on the connection between tragic and comic elements. It makes these short stories very dynamic for readers.

gaspard

2018-11-23 09:23:23 UTC

Mr Zuckermann is a buisness man how's fat and fancy (because of the golden teeths). He stole all of the money of lexington's legacy.

Théo et Florine

2018-11-23 09:23:42 UTC

Chapter 1 : Once upon a time, in New York city, beautiful boys was born and his parents were delighted. But once, they called a nurse to come and take care of their son so they can go to the restaurant. When they come back to the restaurant, the father realizes he loses the keys of the house. So the parents decide to come through the window. Unfortunately, a police cars went that way and the policemen shoot them accidentally because they believe that the parents are robbers. Now, the little Lexington is an orphan.

Lily/Yonâh

2018-11-23 09:25:06 UTC

PIG by Roald Dahl chapter 4:

Lexington has turned six years old. He still lives with his aunt, who is thinking about giving him lessons to read, to write, of geography, of arithmetics and to cook. She taught him that ordinary people eat meat and he is shocked about this discovery.

Marine Gratia

2018-11-23 09:25:18 UTC

world war II : he joined the royal air force and became a fighter pilot during world war II . He started writing in 1940 and had five children with the actress Patricia Neal ( he married her in 1953 but divorced in 1983) . Roald Dal died in 1990 .

Lilou

2018-11-23 09:25:39 UTC

Lexington's parents die, killed by a policeman during an unexpected situation. They was loving parents.

Théophile, Coline

2018-11-23 09:26:41 UTC

First, you have to know that black humour is Roald Dahl's favorite writing style, all his little stories have dark humour. In PIG, we laugh at the parents' stupid death or when Aunt Glosspan kidnapped Lexington in front of the family.

margot et sarah

2018-11-23 09:29:59 UTC

Charlie and the chocolate factory is a book written by Roald Dahl in 1964

Camille et Alicia

2018-11-23 09:34:39 UTC

Roald is an author of novels and short stories, he is popular thanks to his literature for children and teenagers.

Giraud & Ramirez : Examples

2018-11-23 09:36:22 UTC

Here are some examples of dark humour from the "Pig" novel :
- "She even took three large helpings of my most recent creation, deviled mushroomburgers, and told me how succulent it was," (Chapt 6, l 19 at 21)
We can imagine that the dark humour here is based on the name of his most recent creation.

-

sarah et margot

2018-11-23 09:38:38 UTC

It was adapted to the cinema in 2005 by Tim Burton

Kyria

2018-11-23 09:39:00 UTC

Lexington was born in New York.

When he was six years old, he had long golden hair and blue eyes.
And Lexington did not start school when he was 6 because Aunt Glosspan gave him lessons.

At age seventeen he had recorded more than nine thousand different recipes.

Gaspard

2018-11-23 09:39:38 UTC

Mc Pottle is the babysitter of Little Lexington. She does'nt really care about the baby. She is from scotland. She was slepping when the parents came back

Lilou

2018-11-23 09:42:30 UTC

All the family say they want to keep Lexington, but they all give a "good" reason not to. Lexington's family is insincere.

His famous novels .

2018-11-23 09:44:11 UTC

Roald Dahl wrote a lot of novels whose best known ; Charlie and the Chocolate Factory , written in 1964 .

alicia et camille

2018-11-23 09:45:27 UTC

He began writing books in 1942. He wrote his first story A Piece Of Cake.

amandine

2018-11-23 09:46:56 UTC

As he wanted to travel he went into numerous companies; at 17 yaers old , he worked for an oil company in Tanzania and at 20 years old ,he worked for Shell company in Africa

sarah et margot

2018-11-23 09:48:22 UTC

The small mens who worked in the factory are called the Oompaloompas .

Iliana Mekherbeche: Illustrator

2018-11-23 09:48:48 UTC

Quentin Blake is the illustrator of Roald Dahl. He was born in 1932.

In 1978 he worked for the first time with Roald Dahl for the Enormous Crocodile.
He illustrated many famous books like Mathilda, Charlie and the chocolate factory...

alicia et camille

2018-11-23 09:52:21 UTC

And a few adult news like Kiss Kiss.

Lily/Yonâh

2018-11-23 09:54:26 UTC

PIG by Roald Dahl chapter 5:

Lexington has the kitchen for himself so he sarts to experimenting with dishes of his own invention.Aunt Glosspan tastes his food and she find it incredible. She suggests him to write a cooking book. That's how Lexington starts to write "Eat Good and Healthy".

Roald Dahl's job stephanie gratia

2018-11-23 09:57:28 UTC

In addition to being a writer , Roald Dahl was scriptwriter . He wrote especially the scenario of the movie Chitty Chitty Bang Bang in 1968 .

camille et alicia

2018-11-23 09:57:41 UTC

He wrote Matilda in 1988, one of his best hits

theophile, coline

2018-11-30 09:27:41 UTC

What is dark humour ?
It's a humorous way of looking at something that is serious or sad.
some people dosen't understand this type of humour, and that can chock if you don't interpret as humour.

Lily/Yonâh

2018-11-30 09:33:31 UTC

PIG by Roald Dahl chapter 6:

By the time the boy turned seventeen, he had recorded over nine thousand different recipes. Unfortunately, after she tastes his latest recipe: devilled mushroomburger, his aunt dies in an awful pain. The poor boy decides to bury his aunt behind the cowshed. The next day he finds a letter from Glosspan telling him to go to the city and find her lawyer. He also finds two fifty dollar bills in the envelope.

Théo et Florine

2018-11-30 09:37:13 UTC

Chapter 2 : The policemen receive citations, and "the news of this killing" is "eagerly conveyed to all relatives of the deceased couple by newspaper reporters". The relatives gather, but none of them wants to be responsible for taking care of the young infant, as the parents were heavily in debt. Eventually an aunt of the deceased father arrives and takes the boy back to her home in Virginia.

Théo et Florine

2018-11-30 09:53:16 UTC

Chapter 3 : The decription of Aunt Glosspan, her eating habits.

Correction of questions on chapter 7

beatrice_gougeon — 2018-12-05 15:20:33 UTC

beatrice_gougeon1 — 2018-12-07 09:29:14 UTC

Correction of Class Quiz

beatrice_gougeon — 2018-12-07 09:59:38 UTC