Roald Amundsen

In the story "lamb to the Slaughter" by Roald Dahl, Mary Maloney the story's protagonist, was identified as a dynamic character. In the beginning of the short story Mrs. Maloney seemed nice and caring, as the story goes on Mrs. Maloney becomes a complex character. Roald Dahl characterizes Mary Maloney as a married women, with six months of expecting a child of her husband Patric Maloney. Mrs. Maloney is a woman who killed her husband with a frozen lamb leg. In the story, Mrs. Maloney

Roald Dahl the author of the landlady wrote a realistic fiction short story about a tennager named Billy. He went to a new town called bath and met an old lady or the landlady. She let Billy stay at her “hotel” the bed and breakfast. When really she is just going to poison and kill Billy later on. By using sensory details and mystery Roald Dahl teaches us the lesson not to trust without giving thought. Trust is one thing that Dahl teaches his readers about. It can impact a character's life forever

The book the BFG or The Big Friendly Giant has multiple themes, some of them being courage, friendship, injustice, and communication. Courage in the BFG is one of the most substantially important pieces of material in this book. You are not born with courage, friendship makes courage. The story started with an act of courage when Sophie stood up at the window sill and when she also sat up and waited for the Queen of England to wake up from her trogglehumper or sleep and open up the blinds. It takes

In “A Lamb to Slaughter”, Mary Malonee killed her husband Patrick Malonee. Her motive behind the crime was because Patrick was leaving her all of the sudden. Patrick Malonee did not treat Mary well at all. He didn’t tell her why he was leaving but in the story there were different possibilities to be inferred such as, Mary being pregnant or Patrick was having an affair. Mary thought of everything to cover up the murder. She was worried about what they would do to her baby if she would have been caught

Looking for Alaska, a novel by John Green about high schoolers who reside in a boarding school, houses a unique set of characters. Each of the main characters is built with traits specific to that character alone. The main characters in the novel are the new kid, Miles “Pudge”, his roommate, Chip “Colonel”, their friend, Takumi, and the girl down the hall, Alaska. Although Pudge is the new kid, he is a determined person, especially when it comes to learning about his school and the students it contains

The Landlady “Regret is unnecessary. Think before you act.”-William Shockley It’s too late for regrets, especially when you are dead. Billy Weaver a seventeen year old boy who made several poor decisions that lead to his fate. In the story there were numerous chances for Billy to escape, what the Landlady was offering was too good too be true. The smell of the house and the landlady’s action appear to be off her rocker. Billy is the perfect target for the landlady, his personalities made him

In “Lamb to the Slaughter” Roald Dahl uses dramatic irony to make the reader feel surprised because Mary Maloney does certain things, like killing her husband and acting as though it is a shock when she finds out, that only the reader and Mary Maloney know. First near the middle of the story, after finding out he wants to leave her, Mary Maloney kills her husband Patrick with the leg of lamb that they are supposed to eat for dinner at their house. According to the text, “At that point Mary Maloney

Dahl captivates the reader by using situational irony to present the protagonist. In the passage, the narrator addresses Mary Maloney taking the lamb leg and hitting Patrick on the back of his head with it. As the text states, “At that point, 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 3). Here, Dahl uses situational irony to reveal to the reader that Mrs

"The Landlady" is a chilling short story written by Roald Dahl. As Billy steps through the door of what he assumed looked like any ordinary bed and breakfast in an unfamiliar town he had no idea of what he was getting himself into. Dahl creates a sense of foreboding in "The LandLady" by implying that there is something more disturbing behind the lady's innocent smile. When one good thing piles on top of the other everything starts to become to good to be true. Seventeen year old Billy was on his

1. Title and Author of Selection The title of the selection is the “The Landlady”. The author of the selection is Roald Dahl. 2. Genre The genre of the selection “The Landlady” is horror fiction. In the novel “The Landlady” it is inferred that Billy faces death after drinking the poisonous tea given by the landlady which has a motive to stuff him like a pet once he dies (Dahl 179). The reader can infer that the genre of the selection is horror fiction because Dahl most definitely creates a spooky