Roald Dahl

Thesis: “Lamb to the Slaughter” and “A Jury of her Peers” are two short stories that have many similarities, but also have their fair share of differences. Each story can be compared, showing correlation between them, and then compared to show the outliers between them. “Lamb to the Slaughter,” and “A Jury of her Peers” are similar in many ways. In both of the short stories, the main plot is about a wife who is dissatisfied with the husband’s choices, and how the husband treats each of the…

Ponyboy (Michael Curtis) is a 14 year old Greaser, has a solid build, is the narrator of the story, and is small for his age. He has light-brown almost red hair; it is squared off in the back and long in the front and sides, and he has greenish-grey eyes. Equally important, he does not use his head outside of school, according to Darry, and he digs books and movies. Finally, he is an amazing track star, loves to eat chocolate, and he idolizes his brother Sodapop who is 16 years old. Dally…

Looking for Alaska Rough Draft Simon Bolivar said, "Damn it,"..."How will I ever get out of this labyrinth!"(GREEN19). In the novel Looking for Alaska by John Green Miles, the narrator, and his friends Chip and Alaska seek to find a their way through the labyrinth of life. For each of them the labyrinth is representative of their personal life struggles , and the obstacles they face to "escape it". The labyrinth is different for each one of us , and we choose to face it in different ways. For…

The Aftermath Of The Landlady… As Mr. Weaver goes to his room on the 2nd floor, he thinks about what the old lady said-”there on the 3rd floor”, keeps on repeating in his head. As he enters his bedroom he instantly exits out because the stench of rats overruled everything he could smell. Then he bumped into the old land lady behind him, he jumped it scared him. Mr. Weaver is starting to get scared about her presents, ‘she was creepy’, he thought. The old landlady looked at him and went in the…

In Roald Dahl’s short story, Beware of the Dog, a pilot wakes up in a hospital in France. Prior to this, Peter Williamson, the pilot, gets shot down and hesitates asking for help because he is delirious. He then ejects from the plane going unconscious and waking up in the hospital, not remembering what had happened. A nurse then comes in and tells Peter that he is in Brighton, England and tells him how he got to the hospital. Not long after the nurse left she came back, but holding the door for…

Regrets There are few moments in my life I truly regret. Few moments where I wish I could turn back the ever-moving hands of time and change the outcome of a series of events. When I was very young, about seven or eight, my parents sat me down and told me how they no longer loved each other, how I should not think of this as any fault of my own, and how they would always love me no matter what happens to them. I knew they were lying though, and it wasn’t until I was ten that anyone could have…

described as “There were only two rooms in the place altogether, and there was only one bed” (4). Because his family was so poor, he had to focus on the necessities of life, such as food, so he had little time to care about material objects. A critic of Dahl, Rees, states, “"Bliss" in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is equated with being perpetually shut up in a sort of Disneyland” (144), but that does not seem to be the intention. The factory is not an imprisonment from the rest of the world,…

Brute strength; a physical and emotional characteristic needed to commit the murders of Henry Clerval and William Frankenstein. A being capable of such strength must have been large in stature, which The Creature was. Therefore, The Creature must be guilty and rightfully punished. The Creature, being great in size, was capable of wrapping his hands around the two victim’s necks, leaving behind black marks. Because of this evidence and The Creature’s characteristics, it can be concluded that The…

Culture and society are constantly changing; adapting to the people who inhabit the world, the technology that shapes our daily lives, and the philosophies of the common people. Throughout history different art forms have best captured instances of the culture and thoughts of the people. Grecian urns showcase their mythos and famous battles, the Dark Ages told stories through the use of tapestries, the Renaissance was best captured in the hands of painters, the Age of Exploration was a time of…

Three main similarities between the movie and text version of Lamb to the Slaughter. Mary denied Patrick's news about him leaving her for another woman that he fell in love with. Mary decided to head off to the grocery store to help cover up her crime to give herself an alibi to when it might have happened. On the other hand, Mary cooks up the evidence or murder weapon, and the police end up eating it. The difference between the story and the film are the sewing when Mary offers the police…