Unwelcome Passenger The man looked familiar‚ and immediately I felt my pulse quicken. He wore oil-stained jeans and a torn leather vest‚ but no shirt. Straight black hair hung nearly to his waist. A snake tattoo circled his forearm. Mid-thirties‚ I guessed. I didn’t realize I was staring so hard until he scowled and muttered‚ "Do I know you‚ bud?" I quickly averted my eyes‚ not wishing for an exchange of words and maybe more. The man picked up the newspaper and the pack of cigarettes he’d
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conflict. As the story begins Mary Maloney waits for her husband‚ whom she lovingly describes as having a “warm male glow” (Dahl 11) to come home. Upon his arrival‚ Patrick Maloney breaks Mary’s heart with the suggestion of a divorce‚ promptly brushing off his actions with the phrase “there needn’t really be any fuss. I hope not anyway. It wouldn’t be good for my job.” (Dahl 13). This second quotation abruptly changes both Mary’s and the reader’s perceptions of Mr. Maloney; a once shining figure of
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but you never know until you get to know them. The Landlady‚ written by Roald Dahl‚ is a short horror story of a young man named Billy Weaver going to the town of Bath for a business trip. While looking for a place to stay‚ he finds a seemingly kind‚ old lady who offers cheap bed and breakfast. While treating Billy to tea at night‚ the landlady poisons Billy and goes to make him one of her taxidermied collections. Dahl uses foreshadowing‚ characterization‚ and irony to examine how innocence can change
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Summary Outside Fairbanks‚ Alaska‚ a truck driver stops for a hitchhiker who introduces himself as Alex (though his real name is Christopher Johnson McCandless). The hitchhiker says he is from South Dakota and requests a ride to Denali National Park. He then tells the driver‚ an electrician named Jim Gallien‚ that he wants to "walk deep into the bush and ’live off the land for a few months.’" At first Gallien thinks McCandless is "another delusional visitor to the Alaskan frontier." But during
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true Transcendentalism when he went into the woods completely unprepared. His intuition did not lead to knowledge but instead perished his body and ruined his family by leaving them in a blind spot. Jim Gallien picked up a hitchhiker four miles out of Fairbanks. This hitchhiker happened to be Chris‚ and “Gallien thought his scheme was foolhardy (Krakauer 5).” Chris had a single ten pound bag of rice‚ cheap work boots‚ and a .22 caliber rifle. He didn’t have any of the essentials like an ax‚ compass
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Yusuf Walli-Attaei Ms. Klimitz ENG 3U1-01 21 July 2012 Clever Killer What was the last mistake you made that really ruined things for you? In the short story "Lamb to the Slaughter" by Roald Dahl‚ Mary Maloney the protagonist is seen as the average house wife living‚ until she murders her husband‚ Patrick Maloney‚ a police officer with a frozen leg of lamb. Mary discovers about a divorce her husband wanted and acted upon it killing him. Mary Maloney’s personality traits such as her cleverness
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In this analytical essay‚ persuasive techniques used in the text Boy: tales of childhood by the author Roald Dahl will be discussed. Techniques that are specific to non- fiction writing to impart the intended purpose of the text‚ Boy: tales of childhood. The text boy: tales of childhood begins with Roald’s “one-armed father” Haral Dahl and Roald’s uncle Oscar‚ who are both running away together to France to make their fortune. Pg 14 “while uncle Oscar was bustling around in La Rochelle‚ his
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I’s in the Tea? Three years no customers‚ finally one comes‚ but customers from before are still there? The story The Landlady by Roald Dahl is about a weird old lady and a young man named Billy Weaver. Billy is traveling to the city of Bath for his first job when he happens to run into an old boarding house that strangly draws him towards it. Roald Dahl uses foreshadowing to create suspense in his short story The Landlady by talking about her past guest in past and present tense‚ how the house forces
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by Sherryl Clark‚ ‘Lamb of the Slaughter’ by Ronald Dahl‚ and ‘Adventure of the Speckled Band’ by Conan Doyle. The trio of stories plot revolves around the investigation and solving of a crime. There are many similarities in the qualities of the victim‚ such as law abiding‚ innocent people whom the reader has empathy for. Sorrow and grief are feelings enabled in the audience when something happens to the victim. Authors‚ Conan Doyle‚ Ronald Dahl and Sherryl Clark creatively take the advantage of literary
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“First past the post”- A British analogy which Robert Dahl uses to refer to the part of the electoral system in which a candidate competing against another candidate only needs at least one more vote than his or her opponent in order to win. 9. Founding Fathers- The delegates who helped format and create the Constitution but were not all at the Convention of 1787. 10. Framers- Robert Dahl uses this instead of the Founding Fathers to refer to the delegates that discussed
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