Section B (Q10) This book is about the writer‚ Roald Dahl’s childhood. It is hard to mention Roald’s childhood and his adulthood in the same breath. On the other hand‚ Roald Dahl did change a lot through his life journey. From this book‚ it is obvious that he is not pleasant during his school time. Through the book‚ I think we should cherish our school time as there will be once only. Therefore‚ we should always be optimistic for everyday school. As a result‚ we can learn lots of new ideas
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Why do they eventually leave Auschwitz? Is this the end of their troubles? On the way back to Germany‚ the conditions were as bad as Auschwitz. They traveled in trains made for cattle and cargo‚ packed so tightly together. Everyone laid on top of one another and were forced to relieve themselves right where they stood. The vast majority of people in Vladek’s car didn’t survive‚ no more than an eighth of the original passengers. The thing that allowed Vladek to survive was his ingenuity with the blanket
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beings. Every one of them became rich and successful. Most astonishing though‚ was the Ladybug‚ who in the end married the Head of the Fire Department‚ a human. "The Ladybug married the Head of the Fire Department and lived happily ever after" (Dahl 124). James‚ though a child‚ was accepted as an adult. He resided in the peach stone‚ which was set in Central Park‚ without any adult
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In the short texts The Landlady and Lamb to the Slaughter written by Roald Dahl‚ important characters are the Landlady and Mary Maloney. Both these characters are important as they are not the pleasant personas they appear to be and are in fact ruthless murderers. The Landlady is about an elderly woman who kills her house guest by poisoning them with arsenic and then stuffs their bodies. Lamb to the Slaughter is about a housewife Mary Maloney who kills her husband Patrick Maloney‚ with a leg of
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smoke cigarettes. Do not eat pastry. Do not use lipstick. Do not buy a television. Keep my rose beds and my rockery will weeded in the summers. And incidentally I suggest that you have the telephone disconnected now I shall have no further use for it” (Dahl 189). William what too strict to Mary when they were living together and after he died‚ he left the same. He wrote rules that she needs to do after he is dead. It is shocking that William was thinking about rule for
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and over-the-counter drugs for cats and dogs. That’s expected to grow to $10.2 billion annually by 2018” (Dahl‚ Melissa). This website talks about ways we can think more before spending unnecessary money on our companion. It is considered an important work in my field/discipline because it contains information on a issue veterinarians face on a daily‚ this is an article written by Melissa Dahl. This website talks about how many American’s spend billions of dollars on treatments for their animal.
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to suffer standing on the side of a long‚ lonely road hoping for a ride to come along‚ one can get a sense of the experience with just a look at Cindy Sherman ’s photograph‚ Untitled Film Still # 48. The photograph‚ taken in 1979‚ shows a female hitchhiker waiting for a ride alongside a two-lane highway in the dim light of dusk. Sherman is an accomplished photographer. When she uses her camera to speak‚ people who follow photography as an art form listen. As a distinguished figure in her field‚ she
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Poetry 1 UNEXPECTED HAPPINESS I’ve Got a Golden Ticket by : Roald dahl I never thought my life could be Anything but catastrophe But suddenly I begin to see A bit of good luck for me ’Cause I’ve got a golden ticket I’ve got a golden twinkle in my eye I never had a chance to shine Never a happy song to sing But suddenly half the world is mine What an amazing thing ’Cause I’ve got a golden ticket It’s ours‚ Charlie I’ve got a golden sun up in the sky
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done this; he would have done something more along the lines of ‘bed and breakfast’. You ca see how the style in which you present two of the same words‚ can create two totally different feelings. After introducing the ‘BED AND BREAKFAST’ Raold Dahl then begins to paint a picture of a comfortable homely residence‚ a fire burning‚ green curtains (some sort of velvety material) and the pretty little dachshund curled up asleep. This all seems very nice‚ but when we are revealed to the fact that he
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Mary was a loving and caring woman when we started reading the story. Roald Dahl uses literary devices like actions to show that Mary Maloney was both loving and caring‚ because according to “Lamb to the Slaughter” Mary takes her husbands coat and hangs it in the closet. Mary was a static character in the beginning of the story. Mary soon changes from a static character to a dynamic character as the story proceeds. Dahl also uses literary devices such as dialogue to show traits Mary Maloney possesses
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