Well, I will talk about a written character called Tom Sharpe. I will explain this character because he is related with my topic of presentation Oral, British Humour. Tom Sharpe writes satire and sham. The people called him like the satire and sham. Sharpe has the ability to laugh at the absurdities at life and at oneself. So it explains his success with his books. His most important books are: the Wilt and Grope. We can say that Grope is a book that he dedicated to the medical assistance in Catalonia.
When he was small, he lived with his parents in England. Tom Sharpe likes to write and read. One of his aunts who was rich, paid for him to go to a boarding school and he learnt a lot. He stayed there until he was eighteen years old and for ten years his family didn’t go to visit him and he was very sad and now he is a solitary person. He married a French woman who was rich, but they broke up because Tom Sharpe dedicated all his time to his books. Afterwards he married again to an Englishwoman and they had two daughters and they lived in England.
But many years later, Tom Sharpe bought a house in Llafranc, Baix Empordà. Then Tom Sharpe moved to Catalonia and he fell in love with the landscape and the stillness. And he has lived alone in Catalonia, so he can write quietly and now he communicates with his family with phone mobile. He said when he was young he wrote a book very quickly, it took him a month to finish a book. But now, he takes more time. The other cause is he has lived in Catalonia because he admires the attention of doctor with their patients. He explains that if he didn’t live in Catalonia and he lived in England he would probably be dead by now because he told us that one day he had a heart attack and the Catalonian doctor visited him at 3 a.m and he related that in England the doctor wouldn’t visit him until morning. So we can appreciate the medical assistance in Catalonia more than in England.
We can imagine that he is a solitary character and he likes the solitude because he has lived it all his life. To us, he is a strange character. Apart from being alone we can suppose that he is a person that has enjoyed his writing career.
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