Going Solo

by Roald Dahl.
Chapters 3 and 4.

English Dept.
Simba
Chapter 3

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 Characters:
Chapter 3: Simba.

✘ Mdisho
✘ Mister Shanker-bai
Ganderbai.
✘ Robert Sandford
(District Officer)
✘ Mary Sandford
✘ Sandford Kids (3)

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 Settings: Chapter 3: Simba.

Robert’s
house

Bagomoyo
Tabora

Dar es
Salam
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 Plot
“ ✘ Mdisho and Roald travel
upcountry visiting customers.

✘ He meets Mister Shanker-bai

Ganderbai in Bagomoyo.

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✘ They arrive in the town of Tabora.
✘ They meet Robert Sandford and his
family.
✘ They are staying at Robert’s house.

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✘ Roald tells Robert the story about
Salimu and the Black Mamba.
✘ They listen to Beethoven's Symphony
and spend some time together.
✘ The cook’s wife is taken by a lion.

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✘ Robert and Roald run to save the
cook's wife using a rifle.
✘ The cook runs after the lion to save his
wife.
✘ Robert shot the Lion but he misses.
✘ The lion lets the cook’s wife go.
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✘ Robert and Roald go back to the house
and discuss the lion situation.
✘ Roald writes an eye-witness description
for a newspaper.
✘ Experts from Africa try to find an
explanation.

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The Green
Mamba
Chapter 4
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 Characters:
Chapter 4: The Green Mamba

✘ Mr. Freddy Fuller

✘ Mrs. Fuller
✘ Fuller kids.
✘ Snake-man Donald
Macfarlane.
✘ Jack the dog.

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Settings:
Fuller’s
house

Dar es
Salam

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 Plot
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✘ Roald is invited to Freddy Fuller’s house .
✘ He arrives at the house and sees a huge Green
Mamba.
✘ Roald starts screaming to warn the Fuller family
about the snake going into the house.

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✘ The Fullers start going out of the house
from the second floor.
✘ Mr. Fuller goes to find the snake-man.
✘ Mrs. Fuller remembers that the dog is
inside the house.
✗ Mr Fuller comes back with the
snake-man to get the snake out of
the house.

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✘ The snake-man gets out the car with a
wooden pole with a black rubber forked
end.
✘ He gets into the house and Roald
watches from outside the window.
✘ He closes the door and starts looking for
the snake.

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✘ He finds the dead dog but not the snake.
✘ He finds the snake and tries to catch it
but he can’t at first. He catches it the
second try.
✘ He puts the snake in a bag and leaves.

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The End

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