There are two authors that I would like to compare and contrast. Not their actual stories‚ instead how the authors who wrote the stories. The two stories are The Landlady wrote by Roald Dahl‚ There Will Come Soft Rains written by Ray Bradbury and they will both be reviewed. The two authors use satisfying writing styles and genres and a different audience in which the main characters talk to. But‚ they both write suspenseful stories and give their characters a good background and also good plot for
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Telephone conversation by Wole Soyinka is about‚ as the title suggests‚ a conversation over the telephone between two people – a West African man and a British landlady. The former was looking for a place to live in London. He felt that the ‘price seemed reasonable’ and the ‘location indifferent’ in the sense that it was impartial. The landlady claimed that she ‘lived off premises’ possibly indicating that it was a source of income for her. The poem is in free verse and appears like a conversation‚
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SUMMARY Telephone conversation is about an African man who wishes to rent an apartment and so has phoned the landlady to inquire. Once the landlady answers the man decides he must confess‚ as if he has committed a crime‚ about his nationality as the persona in the poem is well aware of the wide spread prejudice against people of African descent and feels he must get the fact out of the way. However‚ unaware of the extent of the landlady’s ignorance‚ he is shocked and annoyed by her cold‚ impersonal
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encountered firsthand such parochial attitude‚ and had learnt to take it in his stride‚ the poem is thus influenced by his personal experience. The poem is about a telephone conversation in England between the poet‚ seeking to rent a house and an English landlady who completely changes her attitude towards him after he reveals his identity as a black African. The motif of a microcosmic telephone conversation‚ therefore‚ is employed by the poet to apply to a much broader‚ macrocosmic level where racial bigotry
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who is in search of a house and his landlady. The poet thus briefly explains the treatment of the African people in European countries‚ especially England‚ where the so-called ‘superior’ white people‚ suggesting the theme of racialism. This poem takes place in London as it is evident from the poem about the presence of a red booth‚ red pillar box & a red double tiered bus. The main characters in the poem include an African (assumed to be the poet) and the landlady‚ from whom the poet wishes to rent
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BlackOut ’Blackout’ is a short story by Roger Mais. It is set in Jamaica and is about racism and the contrast of two different races‚ sexes and cultures! The story starts off explaining the blackout in the city and the general atmosphere of uncomfortable and tense over the city. At this point the story builds an expectation of some sort of conflict. An American women was waiting at a bus stop. Suprisingly she was not bothered by the darkness‚ and she was not nervous. A black man slowly approaches
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Compare and Contrast Essay Have you ever wanted to compare and contrast two stories? The Landlady and The Tell-Tale Heart are two very different stories. They are written in different time periods‚ with different styles‚ and have little in common. However‚ they also have many similarities. This essay will compare and explain the two stories‚ then contrast them. The Landlady was written by Roald Dahl‚ and was published in 1959. The story was written in a hospitable setting‚ that seems perfectly
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Dr. Kris De Jaegher Extra Material complementing Pindyck and Rubinfeld Chapter 2 Learning Objectives 1. Understand the meaning of demand and supply curves‚ and see how equilibrium is established; 2. Understand the meaning of the slope and intercepts of demand (and supply) curves; 3. Understand the difference between movements along demand and supply curves‚ and shifts of demand and supply curves; 4. Understand the effect of price ceilings and price floors; 5. Understand
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as dramatic monologue‚ and rather like a drama‚ tells a story that is full of lucid mystery. There are two distinct scenes in the poem‚ in the first‚ which occupies the first three stanzas‚ of this seven-stanza poem. The reader is presented with a landlady showing a perspective lodger a room that has been vacated by her previous tenant‚ the mysterious Mr Bleaney. Mysterious in that he seems to be an ethereal entity‚ and is never presented to the reader‚ except as a metaphor for what has gone before
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When Billy said‚ “I should’ve thought you’d simply be swamped with applicants.” the landlady replied with‚ “Oh I am my dear‚ of course I am…. I’m inclined to be just a teeny weeny bit choosy and particular - if you see what I mean.” Unlike Lamb to the Slaughter‚ right away you can tell this doesn’t sound normal without having to read the whole story first. Earlier in the story‚ the landlady was also very quick to answer Billy when he was at the door as if she knew he was going to be there
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