Roald Dahl

Figurative language and imagery set the stage for descriptive and mental pictures that readers will remember after they finish these short stories. In the short story, “The Landlady,” Roald Dahl writes about a young man named Billy Weaver was on his way to The Bell and Dragon when he felt some sort of compulsion to The Bed and Breakfast nearby. The women who had answered looked completely innocent to Billy for she was very kind. Billy then went inside and soon after signed the guestbook, but not…

Roald sent and beginning his life in the army,with no type of experience at all. Faces lot's of challenges, and meets new people good and bad along the way. He left his family for 3 years, returning when he's 25. Writing his experiences of war " Going Solo" talks about all the challenges he faces. Two characters Dahl meets are Mdisho and Major Griffths who share common traits but are quite different at the same time. Mdisho is a smart person, while Major Griffths is admirable. To begin with,…

by exclamatives might not be so suited to the male characters. In short, I think CCF uses more exclamatives because of its more assertive male character and its jokey tone. These are arguably the stereotypical male attributes that an author like Roald Dahl, would wish to assign to his male characters , but in neither book is there the evidence of frequent outbursts of female emotion as you might…

“How, then, am I mad? Hearken! And observe how healthily--how calmly I can tell you the whole story.” The stories, “The Landlady,” by Roald Dahl, and “The Tell-Tale Heart,” by Edgar Allan Poe, each show suspense in different ways. Suspense is simply tension between the reader and anticipation for what will happen next. In the Landlady, a seventeen year old boy, named Billy Weaver, enters a motel named, Bed and Breakfast, he wanted a nice cheap hotel. The seemingly innocent land lady, who is the…

Before the end Mrs. Maloney is proud of what she did. With this story “lamb to the slaughter” the author Roald Dahl characterizes Mrs.Maloney as dynamic, revealing to us that people are fragile and can snap at the slightest things. Mrs. Maloney loves her husband. According to her internal monologue Mrs. Maloney “loved the warmth that came out of him”, and we can infer that she loves him (Dahl 1). The author uses diction such as “warmth” to create a positive mood. The positive…

people are not always the way they seem. Roald Dahl demonstrates this theme in his short short story, “Lamb to the Slaughter”. By incorporating dramatic and situational irony and clever use of characterization, the author teaches us that we should not underestimate people. One of the literary elements the author uses to convey the story’s theme is situational irony. Opening the story with a loving housewife awaiting her husband’s arrival from work, Dahl portrays the main character as loving,…

“Gambling addicts tend to progress from losing all their money, then to losing all they can get from their family, and then from their friends, and finally to taking or stealing money from strangers.” In “The Man From The South”, by Roald Dahl the “man” was a gambler who had nothing to gamble, but instead used others items for his own “needs”. The story displayed irony in order to show trust. The “Man” was a gambler who talked to The “Boy” with a lighter. The “Man” had the “Boy” gamble his…

Author- Roald Dahl Date Completed- Drafted- 5th March 2015 Typed- 16th February 2015 Type of text- Novel The novel ‘Going Solo’ is Roald Dahl’s 2nd half of his autobiography. It follows his life when he travelled to Africa to work for the ‘Shell Oil’ company and when he was a fighter pilot in ‘WWII’. This text is relevant to our world today because of the theme of positivity. I think that in our world today a lot of people struggle to stay positive. This is shown in the novel when Dahl is in…

that of the women.” (Muhammad Ali Jinnah). For years, one of the most effective ways for women to feel empowered was through literature based around strong female protagonists. Themes of empowerment are found throughout Zora Neale Hurston’s “Sweat,” Roald Dahl’s “Lamb to the Slaughter,” and Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper.” Zora Neale Hurston’s “Sweat” is the story of a young black woman who is the main provider in her household, corroborated by the quote “Mah tub of suds is…

“The Landlady” uses many techniques that identify it under the horror genre; such as imagery, foreshadowing, mood/tone, theme, plot/setting, and suspense. Roald Dahl uses imagery in this short story by vividly describing the events that occur. On page one, line 8, the author states, “But the air was deadly cold…” As a reader you can imagine the wind blowing onto your face, and feeling the bitterness, and the chill of the wind on a dark night. Page three, lines 261-263, show the comfort of the…