His parent is going to the Vernissage, and the mother has bought a new dress, to try to get the fathers attention. Alex thinks that his mother is going to dance with Vernie Sadge. (Vernie Sadge is a personification of Vernissage; he thinks that Vernie Sadge is a person) And that she had brought the dress to look good for Vernie Sadge. Alex is hiding under his parents’ bed. He does not want his mother to tell him to do his homework, because he wants to do it with his nanny. Alex does not like to do
and grown-up. All though he has this inner conflict he doesn't want to let go of the banana sandwiches even though he knows he probably should. Alex also has an imaginary mind. The word vernissage does he turn into a person called Vernie Sadge. He imagines how Vernie looks like and starts daydreaming (page 2). Throughout the story Alex goes through a development. In the beginning he doesn't want to give up his banana sandwiches even though it is “babyfood”. In the end he decides it is enough with
lots of questions like “When are you going?”, “Who will you talk to?”, “What will you talk about?” and “Is the new dress so as you look pretty for Vernie Sadge?”. He wants to grow up and be and adult like his parents but he cannot understand the adult life yet. He thinks that the word “vernissage” is silly and thinks of it as a person called Vernie Sadge which normally only a child would do which shows that he is not quite ready to grow up yet. Alex’s relationship to his parents is not the best, but
imagination very much, which makes him childish as well. Alex likes to think of the dad’s vernissage as a person, he stretches out the word and transforms it to a persons name: Vernie Sadge. In this quotation Alex describes what “Vernie Sadge” would look like and how he would be: It is obvious that Alex does not like “Vernie Sagde”. Alex knows that the vernissage is to blame for the troubles between his parents. Later on (page 2), Alex is eating banana sandwiches, which symbolises his childhood
Vernissage Alex’ mother has bought a purple dress for the vernissage tonight. But Alex doesn’t see the vernissage as an art exhibition – but more as a person, a man; Vernie Sadge. In his mind he’s a tall and rich man with a moustache who is dancing with his mother at the party in the dark night – the perfect couple in Alex’s head. And there is a reason for this. Alex is a boy who probably has reached ten. He thinks about a lot – such as his banana sandwich which he loved as a little child. But
The main character Alex is a boy about the age of ten. He has got a very childish imagination, for example when he is in the car and his mother mentions the upcoming Vernissage: “It sounded like a person, that was how Alex liked to think of it: Vernie Sadge. He would be tall, with a big thick neck, and glasses, and a moustache like a nailbrush[…]” (p 7, line 32) He asks his mother a lot of questions, which also makes him sound more like a child, than a grown-up boy. He is in a stage between being
both hands” and that also indicates the curious child in him. Furthermore he has a vivid imagination which shows the child that Alex still is. He compares the black and yellow speed ramps with a wrong zebra and he imagines vernissage as a person: Vernie Sadge. When his mother has made him a banana sandwich and he is about to eat it, he thinks that “maybe he was getting too old for banana sandwiches”. But he liked them very much, so he could not and would not say no to them, and therefore he stays