Comparing Roald Dahl's 'And Landlady'

the “Landlady” with a lot of suspense in it. That makes the reader think whats going to happen next. Dahl makes the reader think why in the world is he still in the house with this lady? Roald created suspense of the landlady by using several writing techniques.

The Boy in the Striped Pajamas and Night have a few similarities. A few similarities are they were both in the Holocaust era, they both were in the time of World War II, they both were based off in Auschwitz, Poland, the father was an important character in both, and they had a similar theme.

“House Taken Over” is exceptionally shorter than “Usher” and incorporates modern English and a calmer mood to express the Magical Realism in the story. Cortazar’s text is much less intense than Poe’s and uses far more ordinary and recognizable characters and setting. He tells the story of a brother and his sister Irene and the activities they do in their daily life. The plot is then shifted towards fear with the addition of the fantastic events of the supernatural beings. “I went down the corridor as far as the oak door, which was ajar, then turned into the hall toward the kitchen, when I heard something in the library or the dining room. The sound came through muted and indistinct, a chair being knocked over onto the carpet or the muffled buzzing of a conversation. At the same time or a second later, I heard it at the end of the passage which led from those two rooms toward the door” (39). The characters in “House” have an unimpressed tone when they learn of the otherworldly creatures and try to ignore it, indicating that the story is indeed written in the style of Magical Realism. “‘I had to shut the door to the passage. They’ve taken over the back part.’ She let her knitting fall and looked at me with tired, serious eyes. ‘You’re sure?’ I nodded. ‘In that case,’ she said, picking up her needle again, ‘we’ll have to live on this side’”

The author uses the characters in the story as a big climax, to show evil throughout the text. The two stories are very different and are very much the same all at once and they both play big parts with the main points using the characters. Lamb to the slaughter is written by Roald Dahl and The possibility of evil is written by shirley jackson. The characters in the stories play dramatic parts in the story, to make the story interesting.

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Kate Chopin had written about how her character’s child was not of the white race; therefore, armand had acted impulsively by telling his beloved wife to leave along with their child. “In silence he ran his cold eyes written words. He said nothing. ‘Shall I go Armand?’ she asked ‘Yes, go.’ ‘Do you want me to go?’ ‘Yes, I want you to go.’” Desiree’s husband had led her to go suicidal; therefore, she had drowned in the bayou with their child. Roald Dahl, now he had written about a homicidal that had happened due to Mary’s husband leaving her and their child. Mary had gotten upset and committed murder, while she was pregnant; therefore her hormones were going haywire. “It was extraordinary,now , how clear her mind had become all of a sudden. She began thinking very fast. As the wife of a detective, she knew what the punishment would be.” Chopin’s and Dahl’s stories end in a complete and total difference with each of the female’s characters husband’s. Dahl’s female character kills her husband because he wants to leave her. Whereas Chopin’s female character drowns herself and their baby because Armand didn’t want to be with her anymore due to skin color

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland written by Lewis Caroll was originally published on November 26, 1865. On the other hand, the movie version, directed by Clyde Geronimo, Wilfred Jackson, and Hamilton Luske and produced by Walt Disney, was published in 1951. Carroll's book has twelve chapters and begins by describing a girl who named Alice that falls down a hole and finds herself in wonderland. In comparison, the movie begins with a scene not included in the book in which Alice sings about “her world,” foreshadowing wonderland. In the beginning, the versions are similar. Alice follows the rabbit because she is bored with her sister who only wants to read books with pictures. When she follows the rabbit, Alice finds herself in a different world. The difference is that in the book when Alice comes to the place, she finds the rabbit and follows him until she sees many doors. In the movie, however, the door talks to her instead.

The spooky outdoor setting is made to prepare the reader for the appearance of a cozy indoors, whereas the landlady’s scary features on the inside are covered up by her warm but deceitful personality. She tricks unsuspecting young men with her generous and very motherly personality.

Although Both Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Fall of the House of Usher” and “ House Taken Over” by Julio Cortazar have settings set in large, old, spooky houses, the setting is different because Edgar Allan Poe’s setting s in a much older than House Taken Over. The author in “The Fall of the House of Usher” also relies time more on the supernatural in his setting with visions of ghosts and figures while the “ House Taken Over” is set in a normal old house.

Greed - an emotion that every person experiences regardless of if they have a good conscious or not. According to the Merriam Webster dictionary, greed is “a selfish and excessive desire for more of something (such as money) than is needed.” When comparing the “Man Who Sold the World” category to Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, the most obvious similarity between the two is the greed that characters within the text have. “The Right Kind of House”, “The Killers” (found within the “Man Who Sold the World Category”), and Fahrenheit 451 share a common theme. All three of these texts clearly present that greed is eventually followed with ruinous consequences.

Fear brings forth a certain atmosphere which compels us to act upon it. The era in which the book was published allows us to see how common these fears were. Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House is an excellent portrayal of how fear controls the human mind by using the characters as examples. In the book Eleanor, Theodora, Luke, and Dr. Montague have all been influenced by fear in the story, whether it be the fear of love, the unknown, family, rejection, expression, or loneliness. These different types of fear plagued their minds, causing their actions to reflect upon them. Jackson explores the theme of fear in The Haunting of Hill House by creating a cast of characters that in turn are manipulated by the inner workings of their minds and the malevolent manifestations of Hill House.

A snarling wolf can be as nice as a loving grandmother, and a cute bunny might actually be a demon in disguise, 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 the way things seem.

Setting places the character and the action to a certain place so that the reader can visualize what is happening in the story. Setting is one of the most obvious similarities between these two stories is their settings. They are both set in dreary, dark, ominous houses for most of the action of the story. One of the houses is set at midnight and the witching hour, and the other house is in disrepair, and is almost disintegrating around the people who live there. Consequently, settings virtually always have implications on the story’s tone. The dark, dreary houses give the stories foreboding tones that add to the horror. Already Poe employs the same setting and tones in these stories that put chills down the readers spines, but they also show the similitude in his writing style.

I’ve never really liked nonfiction books but this one peaked my interest. The people in this book and what they say and do are relatable to some extent. Being just the preface and first 28 pages there is a lot you can take from what they said and connect it to things that happen now or things that we've learned about. Sadie and Bessie are two different people and like they say, they balance each other out perfectly. I relate to Bessie who can be sweet and kind but is also really straightforward and not afraid to tell you the truth of the matter. I dont see any race or skin color superior to another so if i lived back when they did and were in their shoes i’d be quite irritated on how people treated colored skin. Although I wouldn’t act on this

Roald Dahl uses various writing techniques in the horror short story, “The Landlady,” to build suspense, or the uncertainty or anxiety that a reader will feel about what may happen next in a story, novel, or drama. In this short story, the protagonist, Billy Weaver, a young, handsome seventeen-year-old, traveled from London to Bath, due to work, and looks for accommodation. Eventually, he came across a quaint bed and breakfast owned by a landlady who appeared to be generous. The landlady portrayed herself as a kind, innocent soul, but her intentions spoke otherwise. As the tale continued, Billy realizes that things are not what they initially appeared to be at the bed and breakfast. Through the use of foreshadowing and characterization, the author, Roald Dahl, of the horror short story, “The Landlady,” effectively builds suspense for the reader in the thread of the plot.