The Umbrella Man by dahl

The Umbrella Man 1) Imagine that the mother goes to the police station to report the "Umbrella Man". The police ask her to appear on television to recount her experience. What do you think she might say? "It was about six o'clock that day when my daughter and I were standing on the pavement in the rain, looking for a taxi. Just then, an old man probably around seventy years old came up to us. He …

…be improved if it were told from the point of view of the mother as we would know what thoughts were going through the mind of the mother. By knowing what the mother was thinking, we could actually know more about her character. By telling the story from the point of view of the little girl, we can only roughly tell the personality of the mother as the little girl is only a third party.