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    The Landlady Essay In the story ‘The Landlady’ Dahl keeps the reader interested by using a range of techniques. This essay will focus on the use of his language‚ setting‚ characters and foreshadowing. Dahl wrights the story about a gullible‚ young boy named Billy Weaver who stays at an unusual Bed and Breakfast run a mysterious old lady that that welcomes him only to drug him and stuff him for her collection. Dahl builds tension by describing the setting in detail. He gives the

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    -McDonalds because of their heavy promotion of children’s toys in their Happy Meals - a marketing tactic that is well known to encourage children to pester their parents to buy the product for the toy. - Last year‚ Nestle put a book from the popular Roald Dahl’s children book series in their

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    “I stuff all my little pets when they pass away”(Dahl) Says The landlady. In the story‚ The landlady‚ The landlady is a caretaker of the place Billy stays in. Billy is on a business trip in Bath. He needs a place to stay. He sees a notice that says Bed and Breakfast. Billy then decides to stay there also because of a cheap room price.The landlady is a serial killer The landlady is mysterious. Billy said “The tea tasted like bitter almonds”. Meaning The landlady could be poisoning him with the tea

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    Betrayal is not a necessary part of life as evidenced in Roald Dahl’s “Lamb to the Slaughter” And Shirley Jackson’s “The lottery”. Lamb to the Slaughter was a story where. Mary Maloney was going to have a son‚ but the husband had to leave because having a family wasn’t going to be good for his job as a detective. Leaving her is an act of betrayal “I know it’s a bad time to be telling you this‚ but there was simply wasn’t any other way. Of course‚ I’ll give you money and see you’re looked after” (Dalh

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    Lamb to the Slaughter By: Roald Dahl THE ROOM WAS WARM and clean‚ the curtains drawn‚ the two table lamps alight ­ hers and the one by the empty chair opposite. On the sideboard behind her‚ two tall glasses‚ soda water‚ whisky. Fresh ice cubes in the Thermos bucket. Mary Maloney was waiting for her husband to come home from work. Now and again she would glance up at the clock‚ but without anxiety‚ merely to please herself with the thought that each minute gone by made it nearer the time when he would come

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    The Landlady and Crime & Punishment are titled specifically so the authors can introduce and link the themes of the text. Dahl deliberately used the vague title ‘The Landlady’ to evoke the reader’s interest. Before the story begins we are already curious to know who this female character may be and what she is capable of. The title ‘The landlady’ serves a strong relationship with the plot of the story. Ulman used the title ‘Crime & Punishment’‚ which makes the reader assume that the genre of

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    has proven knowledge is a key to success. Matilda by Roald Dahl is a children’s book that was published in 1988. Matilda is a popular children’s book‚ but the darkness that is held within the book would surprise many. Matilda was actually coping with her terrible parents and most of the story told is not actually real. Matilda was a quiet and imaginative girl; her mind was powerful and it took no effort for her to deny her issues. Through Roald Dahl’s seemingly innocent and light

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    Going Solo‚ Roald Dahl’s memoir of his work in East Africa and his service in the RAF‚ covers the buildup to World War II and his involvement in it. In the book mention is made of the British colonization of East Africa. British Colonization plays a large role in the memoir as...... Dahl says about British Colonization that‚" I had never before encountered that peculiar Empire-building breed of Englishmen who spends his whole life working in distant corners of British territory" (Dahl 1). In fact

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    of anger by hitting him on the head with a frozen leg of lamb “...Mary Maloney simply walked up behind him and without any pause she swung the big frozen leg of lamb high in the air and brought it down as hard as she could on the back of his head” (Dahl 114). Mary Maloney kills her husband out of anger for leaving her alone with her being pregnant. This is just one example of a wife killing her

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    The story “The Lamb To The Slaughter” written by Ronald Dahl is an amazing story. In the story there are two main characters‚ Patrick and Mary Maloney. Patrick Maloney is a very hardworking detective and‚ Mary Maloney is a hardworking housewife. In the story “The “Lamb To The Slaughter” written by Ronald Dahl. Patrick Maloney comes home to his wife and tells her he wants a divorce.mrs. Maloney does not mrs. Maloney does not want to take that very well. She goes crazy mentally but on the outside she

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