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    intense and exciting point of the short story. ‘Adventure of the Speckled Band’ created suspense when Dahl describes the room. ‘On the table stood a dark-lantern with the shutter half open‚ throwing a brilliant beam of light upon the iron safe‚ the door of which was ajar’. By doing this‚ Dahl hopes to create a picture in the reader’s mind of the room where the event occurs. As the story continues‚ Holmes whispers ‘The band! The speckled band!’ ‘I took a step forward. In an instant his strange headgear

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    The Landlady Roald Dahl The Landlady by Roald Dahl is about a story of Billy Weaver‚ and how he finds someone who seems to be too good to be true. The landlady appears to be a harmless old lady but turns out to be something much more. Unfortunately for Billy he judges the old lady to be something she is not. Roald Dahl builds a sense of foreboding by making the landlady appear to be too good to be true and drops hints about how not to judge a book by its cover. Billy had a suspicion about the

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    and codes of a person function to express that unique identity to the world. Though Sherlock Holmes‚ hero of Sir Arthur Conan

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    Roald Dahl’s parents were from Norway‚ but he was born in Wales‚ in 1916. The family used to spend the summer holidays on a Norwegian island‚ swimming‚ fishing and boating. When Roald was four years old‚ his father died‚ so his mother had to organize the trip alone for herself and her six children. Dahl went to St. Peter’s Prep School‚ and later to Repton Public School After school‚ Roald Dahl didn’t go to a university‚ but applied for a job at the Shell company‚ because he was sure they would

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    Love can be as strong as tidewater‚ however‚ sometimes it becomes a huge net and traps you tightly. In Lamb to the Slaughter‚ by Roald Dahl‚ drastic desire to monopolize is hidden behind the gentle love. Mary‚ the housewife‚ finally punishes Patrick as the one who wants to escape from her obsessed love. Roald Dahl illustrates that love can be a sweet excuse for control‚ this story portrays a twisted love. People consider Mary as a lonely and helpless housewife who spends her life serving her

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    Crazy Housewifes vs. Selfish Husbands The two short stories; Lamb to the Slaughter by Roald Dahl‚ and Jury of her Peers by Susan Glaspell have many similarities‚ and many differences in things like charters‚and murder. In Dahl’s short story a very chipper‚ pregnant housewife‚ Mary Maloney waits for her not so knowingly selfish husband to arrive home after a long day at work. On arrival Patrick Maloney is found weirdly silent. Mary then was thrown off balanced when her husband and father of her

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    “She was about forty-five or fifty years old‚ and the moment she saw him‚ she gave him a warm welcoming smile.”(3 Dahl) ‘Him’ is Billy‚ the main character in this novella. “Billy was seventeen years old. He was wearing a new navy-blue overcoat‚ a new brown trilby hat‚ and a new brown suit”(1 Dahl). In this story by Roald Dahl The Landlady‚ Billy gets taken in by a nice old landlady into her den. There are two main themes in this story the irony of Billy’s situation and the deception of the landlady

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    Sherlock Holmes is a prominent figure in Victorian literature as well as modern television and film. He is a renowned character as he uses his sharp intellect to solve many mysterious crimes alongside his partner‚ John Watson. Holmes has a darker side that is often overlooked by many fans. His long history of drug use as well as the possibility of mental illness. Psychopathy‚ and addiction. Psychopathy otherwise known as‚ Antisocial Personality Disorder‚ is characterized by: deceitfulness‚ irresponsibility

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    Essay The Scarlet Ibis Introduction One of the saddest and the most beautiful stories that I’ve ever read is The Scarlet Ibis. It is so sad and so beautiful at the same time it makes you want to put the book down and never pick it up again but you can’t because it is so beautiful and touching and it relates to how so many people feel‚ when they are embarrassed or lose a loved one. The author James Hurst‚ who grew up in North Carolina‚ where the story takes

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    from the male investigators which led to Mrs. Wright escaping justice. On the other hand‚ Lamb to the Slaughter is a murder case instinctively executed by Mary Maloney‚ who is the wife to the deceased Patrick Maloney. Although Mary commits the crime after her husband broke the news about the plan to divorce her‚ she immediately comes to her senses after hitting him “as hard as she could” with a frozen leg of a lamb. She successfully lays down a plan to deceive the police that she was

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