World Champion Danny

1. GİRİŞ
Dünya Şampiyonu Danny, ünlü ve
başarılı çocuk kitabı Roald Dahl tarafından yazılmış bir çocuk romanıdır . Çocuk edebiyatı,
çocukların dünyasına aşina olan her şeyi içeren çocuklar tarafından tüketilmek üzere yazılmış bir edebi eser türüdür
. O’Sullivan’a göre Çocuk Edebiyatı Tarihi Sözlüğünde (2010)
çocuk edebiyatı, gündelik
dili olan ve toplumda çocuk karakteri oluşturmayı amaçlayan heyecan verici hikaye içeriği olan çocuklar tarafından kolayca anlaşılabilen bir edebi eserdir
(O’Sullivan, 2010: 5) . Çocuk edebiyatının bir araç işlevi gördüğü sonucuna varılabilir.

toplumdaki çocuklar için iyi bir karakter oluşturmak için içeride iyi şeyler içeren eğlence sağlamak .
Edebi bir eser yaparken, insani duyguların unsurları genellikle
yazarın eserine olan hissinin, deneyiminin, düşüncesinin ve hayal gücünün bir ifadesi olarak içe aktarılır . Biri
insan duygularının yansımasını tarif edebi eserler açıkça roman. Roman
okuyucuya karakterlerin nasıl tanımlandığını, ne hissettiklerini, hikayede neler yaptıklarını vb. Anlatır.
Danny, Dünya Şampiyonu Danny romanındaki karakter yazar tarafından
kendisi hakkındaki hikayeyi doğrudan okuyucuya anlatıyormuş gibi sunulmaktadır .
Dünya Şampiyonu Danny adlı bir roman okuyucuya bir yaşam ve
yaşında bir çocuk Danny ve muhteşem babası macera. Zavallı Danny
, bir annenin sevgisini alamayacağını kabul etmelidir . Danny yaklaşık dört aylıkken annesi
aniden öldü. Yanında da erkek ya da kız kardeşi yok, bu yüzden sadece babasıyla yalnız yaşıyor.
Danny ve babası, bir dolum istasyonunun ve
babasının sahip olduğu bir atölyenin arkasındaki eski bir çingene karavanında yaşıyorlar . Danny çocukluğundan beri araba motorlarına
ve oyun odası olarak kullandığı atölyedeki eşyalara aşinaydı

As Danny grows up, he discovers the deepest darkest secret of his father. Danny was
shocked and disbelieved that his marvelous father is a pheasant poacher (illegal hunter) in
Hazell’s wood. However, at the same time, Danny also discovers a brilliant idea dealing with
poaching. Danny’s brilliant idea leads him and his father to the real adventure in poaching
pheasants at Hazell’s wood where there were so much keepers equipped with gun.
Danny the Champion of the World written by Roald Dahl attracted the writer attention
because it contains so many good moral value messages not only for children, but also for
parents to be applied in the society. Through this writing, the writer will give a brief summary of
Danny the Champion of the World written by Roald Dahl and review the strength and weakness
of the book.

2. SUMMARY OF DANNY THE CHAMPION OF THE WORLD
The author, Roald Dahl engages the reader to be acquainted with a nine-year old boy
named Danny. He only lived alone with his father and had no brother or sister. When Danny was
about four months, his mother died suddenly so Danny’s father should look after Danny all by
himself. It was not easy for Danny’s father after his wife left. He should take over the things that
his wife usually does for Danny while at the same time he had to earn money for living.
Danny and his father owned a small two pumps filling-station and a workshop. They did
not live in a luxury house but in an old gypsy caravan behind the filling station surrounded by
fields and woody hills. Since Danny was a child, he was very close and familiar with million
things of car engines because he spent all of his days in the workshop which had been his playroom to help his father. Even though Danny did not have nice things normally children have, he
never had unhappiness or illness moments because all the love that his father had for Danny’s
mother when she was alive are given entirely to him.

Danny could not find his father anywhere until he heard footsteps approaching him from
a distance and it was his father who has return. Danny’s father took his hand and walked him
back to the caravan. In a silence, Danny’s father had decided to let Danny knew his deepest,
darkest secret. He told Danny that he had been done poaching pheasants in Hazell’s wood. Then
and there, Danny was shocked because he disbelieved that his marvelous father was a poacher
(illegal hunter). That night Danny’s father revealed all the dark secrets in the whole life of him,
included the method how to capture pheasant.

The next poaching had been planned by his father with Danny’s consent but Danny did
not come with him. His father promised to return home at ten thirty at night but it was ten
minutes past two when Danny opened his eyes and his father was not yet return to the caravan.
Without any doubts, Danny decided to go after his father in case he was injured by driving Baby
Austin to reach his six miles father soon. When Danny arrived upon Hazell’s wood, he found
that his father was injured; he fell into the hole specially made to trap poacher and his ankle was
broken. Danny should quickly find a way to bring both of them out without being discovered by
Hazell’s wood keepers until finally they got home and Danny’s father needed a serious treatment
for his broken ankle

After the incident Danny’s father had in Hazell’s wood, he was very mad at Mr. Victor
Hazell and wanted to take revenge. Shortly after that, a brilliant idea was discovered by Danny.
He remembered that his father had sleeping pills Doc. Spencer gave and the pheasants like
raisins so much. Danny suggested his father to wreck the pills till it became powder then put it
into the raisins so that the pheasants would fall asleep right after they ate the raisins. A doubt
appeared in Danny’s father whether the new method would work or not but he gave it a try.
Before the famous pheasant shooting party of Mr. Hazell started, they came to the
Hazell’s wood, carrying the sleeping powder raisins to be spread for the pheasants. After waiting
for a moment, obviously Danny’s brilliant idea was a huge success because they managed to
capture one hundred and twenty pheasants. They put them into the sacks and there was Charlie
Kinch in his taxi who was ready to take away the hunting of Danny and his father to the caravan.

The next day, Danny, his father, Doc. Spencer and Mrs. Clipstone were shocked to know
that all the pheasants they had captured were woken up and flown on and at the same time Mr.
Hazell arrived finding that all of his pheasants were in the filling-station of Danny’s father. Mr.
Hazell claimed that all of the pheasants were belong to him but Danny’s father said it was not his
anymore because they flew and stayed on the land of Danny’s father and that was the rule.
Nobody could do anything especially Sergeant Samways. Mr. Hazell finally left the filling- station madly with his Rolls-Royce. It was the time Danny and his father got their victory and
because of the brilliant idea Danny had, his father called him “Danny the Champion of the
World”.

3. ROALD DAHL AND HIS WORK
No one expected that Roald Dahl, a former of ace fighter pilot would become a children’s
literature writer. Dahl was born from Norwegian parents, Harald Dahl and Sofie Magdalene
Hesselberg in Llandaff on September 13, 1916. The little Dahl first attended school in Llandaff
Catholic School but he later transferred to St. Peter, a boarding school in England as his father
wished. Dahl then continued his study to Repton in 1929, a private school which has an excellent
academic reputation.
Because of his adventurous desire, Dahl decided to join the Great Britain Air Force rather
than attended Oxford or Cambridge University. When Dahl was in charge as the fighter pilot in
WWII, he got an accident which made him suffers serious injuries in his cranium, spine, and hip.
Roald Dahl met Patricia Neal, an American actress in 1953 whom he married but divorced after
30 years of marriage. Dahl finally decided to remarry with Felicity Ann Crossland which became
his wife until he died in the age 74 on November 23, 1990.
Some of Dahl’s children’s literature works are James and the Giant Peach (1961) —
followed byCharlie and the Chocolate Factory (1964) — Kiss kissand Fantastic Mr. Fox
(1970)—Danny the Champion of the World (1975), The Enormous Crocodile (1978) and My
Uncle Oswald a year later — The Twits, Revolting Rhymes, The BFG and The Witches (early
1980’ler) – Boy, Going Solo, Matilda, Esio Trot ve nihayet Minpins (1991).
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