beautiful. Her animals had not moved since I was last there‚ it was like they were stuck in the position they were in. As I walked downstairs‚ The Landlady was sitting up straight and perfect on her couch watching me head to toe as I looked around. She kept asking me if I wanted tea. That was one of the most unusual things that I encountered. I think The Landlady is guilty because‚ the grocery list‚ handwriting was identical to the guest book‚ the lack of visitors also the fact that all of her visitors
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feeling. Spookily quiet and the Landlady´s weird kindness made the story more creepy，something is going to happen. Nevertheless，the story had not gone clear so the readers do not know what happened yet. When Billy signed his name on the guest book and drank the “bitter almond” tea，the whole story slowly transfer to a scary mood ，which Billy had been poisoned! Connect the stuffed animal and the Landlady´s strange movement，the story reached the climax. Finally，the Landlady came to the room and stuffed
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the poet wanted to rent a house from the landlady originally. However‚ after he stated that he was African‚ the conversation turned to discuss the poet’s skin color swiftly and it lasted till the end of the conversation.. Repetition was used to emphasize on the issue of racial discrimination. ’Dark’ was repeated to show how much did the landlady care about the poet’s color‚ because ’dark’ usually connects with the dark skin color of African. The landlady was obviously discriminating other races.
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productive life. Her most outstanding award would be the Canadian Governor General’s Award for poetry in 1966. Her work has been an inspiration to many and she will be recognized for many years to come. The three poems that I am going to discuss are: The Landlady‚ Rat Song and Song of the Worms. All three of these poems use strong imagery to show Margaret Atwood’s view of the way that women are treated. She uses several tones in her poems‚ the tone that she generally uses for these three poems are frustration
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this story is Civil war. The message that the writer is trying to give through his writing is ‘‘anti war’’‚ the writer is giving the readers the impression that war is bad and it shouldn’t happen. The second story that I will focusing on is “The Landlady”. This story is written by Roald Dahl. This story is set in a place called Bath situated in England. The stories genre is suspense‚ for the reason that‚ throughout the story the reader keeps the secret hidden from the readers about what is going
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story there’s a lot less detail than in the movie version. Right off of the bat I notice that Billy meets a man on the train that is taking him to Bath and the man he meets is in the same branch as him. In the story it don’t say the reason that the landlady opens the door so fast but in the movie she was looking through the door hole and that’s why she opened the door so fast. In the movie he waits a while before he came in but in the story it said that he came in fast after she opened the door. Also
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In ’Telephone Conversation’‚ the poet conveys his disappointment and anger about being discriminated by the Caucasian unfairly just because he is an African by portraying the telephone conversation between himself and the British landlady. The poem is in the form of free verse. It is because ’conversation’ isn’t something well-planned; instead‚ the speakers speak what they want during the conversation. Also‚ with the aid of end-stop lines and run-on lines‚ the outlook of the poem gives readers a
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In the well-known short stories The Landlady by Roald Dahl and Examination Day by Henry Sleaser two surprising events occur. In The Landlady the surprising event is that we find out the landlady is a murderer and in Examination Day a surprising event is when Dickie is killed by the government because he has a high intelligence quotient. One event that surprises the reader in the short story The Landlady is when the landlady is suspected of killing her previous guests and probably planning on killing
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searching for his love in a furnished room. He meets the owner of the furnished room that his love has rented recently. In the latter part of the story‚ the young man commits suicide in the same room where his love committed suicide‚ too. Moreover‚ the landlady tells to a friend that she knows the girl that the young man is looking for but she does not tell him because she is greatly taking care of her reputation and her business. She wants no one to know that someone committed suicide on her room because
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different to the humour in TC‚ which is a dialogue written in typographical form where different fonts represent the different participants. The landlady has her words capitalized suggesting a crass and unpleasant character‚ which contrasts with the reasoned voice of the poet‚ which is represented in conventional lower case. The contrast between landlady and the would-be tenant (between capitals and lower case) is used through out the poem to amplify the ridiculousness of racism and Soyinka’s humour
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