Ian Lancaster Fleming, author, journalist, naval intelligence officer, you name it he did it. He was most commonly known not for his work as an intelligence officer but for his series of books about James bond also a British spy. Ian had many different jobs before he finally settled on writing. His stories about James bond were a reflection of the way he lived his life and his job as a British naval intelligence officer. Fleming’s family ancestry can be traced to the Flanders back in the fourteenth century. They were farmers and weavers who moved to Scotland's Highlands. John Fleming, Ians great-great-grandfather founded a lint mill to try to make them some more money but the mill ended up leaving the Flemings bankrupt with very poor and …show more content…
He came from a middle -upperclass Scottish family. His house was also a hunting and fishing household, they would catch their lunch and dinner each day and prepare it fresh (Critical Survey 630.) In 1910 Fleming’s father went to into politics and had to go away to France for some time so the duties of raising children fell to Fleming’s mother. She decided to send her children to Durnford Boarding School on Purbeck Isle in Dorset in 1916. It was a very nice school, it promoted individuality and it embraced the childrens quirks.It also embraced imagination and freedom to do as the children pleased. The school’s only serious downfall was that the hands-off approach resulted in viscous bullying of the younger boys by the older boys. The Fleming children were victims of such bullying. The boys sent letters home to their mother telling her about all of the bad treatment that they were receiving at school (British writers 82.) Fleming began to hate the school, he was homesick, he was getting bullied on a daily basis, he had way too much class work and did not know how to keep up. Putting all of the downfalls aside Fleming did love the school’s founder’s wife, Ellinor Pellatt. Each Sunday, right before dinner she would read adventure stories to any child who wanted to hear them, Fleming went every time. She read him adventure stories about things such as H. C. McNeile’s tenacious Bulldog Drummond, the evil …show more content…
He entered the school in the autumn of 1921. His older brother, Peter, was doing very well academically but Ian would not be able to follow in his footsteps. Fleming knew that he was not the brightest crayon in the box so he turned his focus onto other things that would get peoples attention such as his appearance, wearing very heavily scented hair oil, not following the school rules, showing off how good he was at sports and he became a womanizer (British Writers.) In 1925 and 1926 Fleming was awarded the title “Victor Ludorum,” because of his accomplishments of in track and field events. Although he did have an interest in literature, Fleming rarely studied or even cared about his classes at Eton so his mother withdrew him from the academic classes and enrolled him into Eton’s Army Class Division. She was hoping that with this change he would be able to pass the entry exam and then go on and gain admission into the Royal Military College. He ended up ranking eleven out of one hundred students who took the exam. Before he went off to school he was enrolled at a school in Kitzbuhel, and experimental school to help kids find their way, so the Fleming could find himself (British Writers 84.) On the third of September in 1926 Fleming began his eighteen month long training course to become an officer. In training he excelled in the physical aspect but he
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a good James Bond. He tryed to be aggressive but he just made a fool of him self,
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