The Antagonist In The Landlady

Many people lie about how old they are and how much money they make, but this is not the case. In these stories the antagonist is lying how many people they killed or how normal they are. In the story Number 8 by Jack Ritchie and The Landlady by Roald Dahl, the reader can easily tell that you have been tricked to believe that the antagonists are good and nice because of the characterization. After all looks can be deceiving. In the story Number 8,. A young man was hitchhiking with this other man. On the radio was the police talking about a serial killer. “ The red-headed kid’s eyes were bright and a little wild as he listened to the car radio.” They stopped at the nearest gas station to fill up. The old man that was filling them up took …show more content…
A nice man at the train station told him to go to the Bell and Dragon a couple blocks away. As he was walking down the street a bed and breakfast caught his eye. He rang the bell and this nice old women open the door super quick. She invited him in and show him to his room. “ ‘We have it all to ourselves,’ she said smiling at him over her shoulder as she led the way upstairs.” The bed was already made for him to just crawl in and with a warm water bottle to keep him warm at night. After he got settled, he went downstairs to the living room to sign the book on the piano and the landlady was waiting for him with a cup of tea. Billy looked a the book. Only two names but haven’t I seen these names before. Billy noticed the dates. “This last entry is over two years old.” As he was thinking about the names, he realized that the bird and the dog were stuffed perfectly and just laying there. Billy sat down and siped his tea. He remembered, those names were in the paper under missing. He kept drinking. He couldn’t move. The landlady poisoned him. The landlady was deceiving to Billy Weaver as a nice, old women, but she killed …show more content…
In Number 8, the author gives the reader hints and clues that something big is going to happen. A young man was hitchhiking with this other man with brown hair. As they were in the car riding along, they were listening to the cop radio, talking about a serial killer. They stopped at a gas station with a phone. The driver asked the boy if he wanted to use the phone in a last time kind of way. After the gas station, the boy realized that he was going to be the eighth kill. In the short story the Landlady, Billy Weaver went to a bed and breakfast. There the landlady was very suspicions of something. After Billy was settled in his room he went down stairs to sign the book and sip his tea. I couldn’t move the landlady poisoned him and stuffed him like her pets. In both of these stories the antagonist were not who they deceived to be, a nice old lady and a caring