Roald Dahl Research Paper

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Within the many works of the open minded Roald Dahl, there is a great deal of evidence displaying his willingness to experiment with many styles of writing. Due to his open mind, he not only gained fame but also tore down the standards of children's writing. He began his writing career with adult writing, but the influence of his own children and his unprejudiced attitude towards change encouraged him to start writing for kids. His attitude and outlook gave him fame. Furthermore, when he started writing stories and poems with endings that were not so light hearted, he destroyed the boundaries between youth and adult fiction. The usual stories written for kids were innocent, yet the fiction that he wrote was quite unusual and gruesome. There

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