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Compare And Contrast Ray Bradbury And Roald Dahl
Which author is better? Roald Dahl or Ray Bradbury? First let's look at their similarities. Some things they have in common are they both are authors for children and their stories are a bit creepy and someone dies or something dies. For example In Roald Dahls “The Landlady” a boy named Billy weaver dies and in Ray Bradbury “There Will Come Soft Rains” the house dies. So someone or something usually dies. Ways there stories are creepy are one, things die two in the landlady its like she is trying to kidnap him and in there will come soft rains when your reading it there is a feeling of something watching at leats in my opinion.
Now to talk about Roald Dahl. One of Roald Dahls most famous stories is The Landlady. Some things About Roald Dahl

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