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Pages 115-117

• The following version of this book was used to create this Lesson Plan: Dahl, Roald. The Umbrella Man. Puffin Books, 1996. Paperback.

• On pages 115-117, the narrator introduces herself as a 12-year-old girl.

• She has a funny story about the evening before when she and her 34-year-old mother were in London for a dentist appointment.

• The narrator had one cavity that the dentist filled, and they went to a café after the appointment.

• The narrator had a banana split and her mother had coffee.

• When they came outside it was raining hard and they were not wearing raincoats.

• They tried to get a taxi, but they could not get one.

• A small old man came up to them and asked for a favor.

• The narrator’s mother was suspicious, but the narrator thought he seemed like a real gentleman.

• The man said that he had left his...

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