Pig-Roald Dahl

Synopsis

This book tells the story of Lexington, a little boy who was orphaned a few days after his birth. A few days after returning home from the hospital, his parents went out one night and left him in the care of a nanny. When they returned in the evening, they realised that they had forgotten their key and tried to get in through the window. But at that moment, a police car appeared and the police, thinking they were burglars, shot them and killed them both. At the age of 12, Lexington had been orphaned and none of his relatives could take care of him, until suddenly an aunt called Glosspan, who was 70 years old and lived alone in the mountains, took him with her. Lexington grew up with his aunt, who taught him to cook and write. They didn't go down to the city at all, so they cooked what they got from the garden, the cows and the chickens they had. As her aunt got older she started cooking Lexington and at the same time she started writing a cookbook. Until one day his aunt died, when he was 17 years old. His aunt left him a written note of what he had to do when she died and so he put on some shoes, a white shirt and went to the city first to see the doctor, so that he could get the death certificate and then to the lawyer who gave him the money that his aunt had left him as an inheritance. With that money he went into a restaurant to eat something and ate the only thing that was pork at the time. He thought it was so tasty that he wanted to know how it was cooked and so he went to where...

Personal Opinion

In my opinion, it's a rather cruel story. I thought it would tell the life of a little child who was orphaned, and being the beginning of the story sad I expected the ending to be happy. In my opinion, it is an entertaining reading until almost the end of the book in which it already has a point of excessive cruelty and therefore I wouldn't recommend it.

Student's name
Sara Elzaurdi