Beware of the dog is a well written short story by ROAHL DAHL. It follows the adventure of Peter Williamson after a being shot down by a German canon. Throughout the story, Peter begins to suspect where he is. He is told that he stays at a hospital in Brighton. But soon afterwards, he realizes he has been captured. ROAHL DAHL explains how the protagonist reacts to the situation and how he adapts towards the surrounding people who are lying to him to make him feel at home and safe. In this essay, I will examine the characterization of the protagonist as tension is built into the story.
First of all, the protagonist is a smart man. He can detect when something is going wrong. The first moment that made him wake up to the situation he’s in is when he started hearing the German Junker-88 bomber planes flying so low in, what appears to be, an English city know as Brighton. “He lay listening to the noise, and he felt quite certain about what it was. But where were the sirens and the guns?”(90) From this moment on, the protagonist started to suspect where he was. He began …show more content…
He takes care of himself and knows when to act when his life is in danger. The author quotes “As he looked, the dial became blurred, and he could not even see the needle. He knew then that he must bail out; that there was not a second to lose, otherwise he would become unconscious.”(88) From this moment, we can understand that the protagonist’s life was no longer in safety and that he had to act quickly before he can no longer do so. Through the story, the more the protagonist realized he was not in England, the more he became resourceful. During his time spent in “the hospital”, he wanted to make sure where he was. So he crawled on the floor reaching to the window even though he was in a lot of pain “It was beginning to hurt and he could feel it throbbing. He wanted to collapse, lie down on the carpet and do nothing, but he knew that he must go
First of all, the protagonist is a smart man. He can detect when something is going wrong. The first moment that made him wake up to the situation he’s in is when he started hearing the German Junker-88 bomber planes flying so low in, what appears to be, an English city know as Brighton. “He lay listening to the noise, and he felt quite certain about what it was. But where were the sirens and the guns?”(90) From this moment on, the protagonist started to suspect where he was. He began …show more content…
He takes care of himself and knows when to act when his life is in danger. The author quotes “As he looked, the dial became blurred, and he could not even see the needle. He knew then that he must bail out; that there was not a second to lose, otherwise he would become unconscious.”(88) From this moment, we can understand that the protagonist’s life was no longer in safety and that he had to act quickly before he can no longer do so. Through the story, the more the protagonist realized he was not in England, the more he became resourceful. During his time spent in “the hospital”, he wanted to make sure where he was. So he crawled on the floor reaching to the window even though he was in a lot of pain “It was beginning to hurt and he could feel it throbbing. He wanted to collapse, lie down on the carpet and do nothing, but he knew that he must go