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The personality of Individuals is a major aspect in what makes every person unique, however there are some traits that can be shared between people. In the chapter "The Voyage Out" from the novel Going Solo by Ronald Dahl, the main protagonist encounter with many characters and one of the characteristics they shared was madness. The book is dramatic, funny and also a bit of action and actually, weird too. The thing we going to be focusing on this draft is how can people that Dahl met in his travel are different or the same and also his reaction to them. Bonzo G. Must knowing as Major Griffiths was a man that Dahl meet during his travel, also one of the examples, first, at the begging of meeting was weird. Bonzo pass across Dahl's spice hole but not just cross, he cross naked, but then later on the story it let us know why. He, Bonzo runs naked because that’s an exercise. Dahl was so jealous of him, he said "I was actually jealous of his total don’t-give-a-damn attitude, and I wished like mad that I myself had the guts to go out there and do the same thing. I wanted to be like him "(The Voyage Out, paragraph 8) …show more content…

He describes as all bones and grey skin, another thing of the text that could be by evidences was " She was impatient, intelligent, generous and interesting. I felt she would come to my rescue at any time, whereas Major Griffiths was vapid, vulgar, arrogant and unkind, the sort of man who’d leave you to the crocodiles" (The Voyage Out, paragraph

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