Boy: Tales of Childhood

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"Feeling like an undertaker's apprentice in a funeral parlour." Do you think it is just the colour and the style of the uniform he is referring to here ? What else do you think Dahl wants you to understand from this similie ?

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I suppose the morbid imagery has to do with the look and style of the coat as well as the idea of the death of his seven-year-old sister Astri from a burst appendix

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