The Way up to Heaven door Roald Dahl

Vak: engels
Datum:25/10/04

Persons:

- Mrs. Foster: All her life, she had an almost pathogical fear of missing a train, a plane, a boat, or even a theatre curtain. She was not a particuliere woman, but the mere thought of bein late on occasions like these would trohw her into such a state of nerves that she would begin to twitch.
- Mr. Foster: he may possibly have had a right to be iriitated by this foolichness of his wife, but he could have had no excuse for increasing her misery by keeping her waiting unnecessarily.

Outline:

On a day Mrs. Foster go to the plane, she was going to Paris, to visit her daughter, her only child, (who was married to a frenchman) and her three grandchildren. She never will missed the airplane. Her husband do consciously pathological slowly and he didn’t come out of his study room and get ready. Mrs. Foster was in a state of nerves and has a vellicating muscle in her hand. When her husband was ready they go. She said: I’ll write you!!! On the street was a big fog and the come fairly late on yhe plane. She go to the counter and her airplane was temporarily postponed, and she eat a sandwich in the loungeroom. At a hour a lady said the airplane was postponed to tomorrow and she go to her house. Her man asked how was Paris?, and she said the plane was postponed. He wa not intressed.
The next day she was ready to go and when her husband fairly late in the car was, he said: I forget it, I forget it, what Mrs. Says and her husband said, a little box. And he go to the house and said: I won’t be a moment. A minute later she saw the box on the bank of the car and she said, Here it is!! She go to het husband but she has now key and she looked to the crack of the door. And she walk to the car and she said: go, go!!! And she go to Paris!!

When the siz weeks were up, everybody was sad that she had to return to America, to her husband. When the taci drew up before the house on Sixty second street, and mrs. Foster opened the door, saw she a great pile of mail lying on the floor where it had fallen after being slipped trouhg the letter box. T was cold and she smeld a curious odour. Then suddenly, she turned and went across into her husband study. On the desk she found his address book and after hunting trough it for a wile she pecked the phone an d dailed a number. She asked: Could you send someone round as soon a possible, and she she waiting for the man who would be coming soon to repair the lift, and her husband!! Haha

Opinion:

I found the story verry dificult to read, but the film wasn’t difficult to understand and I found the story laughable and sometime verry irritated.