Robert Dahl Figurative Language

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“Do you ever get terrified when you are reading a panicky book?” Robert Dahl’s writing method makes me terrified until something happens.

Dahl created a suspense by ,the landlady seemed nice cause in the text it says “It’s all ready for you, my dear,” she said. She had a round pink face and very gentle blue eyes. In the story it says “billy was drinking the tea as he , was drinking he smelled a burnt Almond smell”. Also the landlady was talking about the missing people. The landlady kept talking about the missing , she was saying they are here in the text it says “Christopher Mulholland , was in the newspaper he was missing”.Billy notice that it was only two people who entered because in the text it says” There were only two other entries above his on the page, and, as one always does with guest-books, he started to read them”.
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“Wait just a minute. Mulholland... Christopher Mulholland... wasn’t that the name of the Eton schoolboy who was on a walking-tour through the West Country, and then all of a sudden...”
“Milk?” she said. “And sugar?” “. The landlady is acting suspicious because when billy was about to say who those missing were she said “Milk and sugar”. It sounds like she knows something about those missings people.Billy is starting to feel uncomfortable about this whole situation because every time he brings up those names she get off

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