Lamb to the Slaughter and The Landlady by Roald Dahl

have to the lacing and The Land bird by Roald DahlCOMPARING TWO SHORT STORIES IN THIS UNIT, WRITE AN try out DISUCSSING HOW ROALD HAS USED VARIOUS TECHNIQUES (INCLUDING THE USE OF LANGUAGE) TO ENTERTAIN, INTRIGUE AND SHOCK THE READERIn this coursework I am going to comp ar to petty stories which atomic number 18 beloved to the Slaughter and the Landlady written by Roald Dahl. Roald Dahl specialises in writing stories for children in the 20th Century. Roald Dahl is the author of Factory, Charlie, Matilda , James and the Giant Peach and Georges grand Medicine. He uses different writing techniques in order to entertain, intrigue and to assault the reader or the audience. Born on the 13th of September 1961 in LIandaff, South Wales. He never liked school because he express students were caned and afternoon teatimechers where horrible to them. In 1939 he joined the Royal Air coerce when the World War II started and also in 1940s he became the bestselling writer he works with v irtually(prenominal) children and adult. He writes short stories which use up the reader to guess what will happen at the end. When he got married, he divorced his wife and later married Patricia Neal and gave birth to five children. He died on the 23 November 1990 at the age of 74. love to the Slaughter give birth to the Slaughter is a short story and is about a large(predicate) woman (bloody shame Mah wizy) and her keep up (Patrick Mahoney). Her hubby went to work and she was waiting for the husband to summon home. The room was warm and clean, the curtains drawn, the dickens table lamps tell us that bloody shame Mahoney is in her house. When the husband came back from work, she tried to make a parley with the husband plainly the husband was non giving her attention provided she knew that her husband does not talk too much until his com workforcecement salute is finished. She started ca-cating worried. bloody shame haves the husband if he wanted dinner but, he refuses ein truth food she gave to him. Finally Patrick spoke to Mary and tell So in that respect it is. I know its kind of a cock-a-hoop judgment of conviction to be telling you, but there simply wasnt whatever separate(a) way. And he also said of course Ill spend a penny you money and see youre looked after. This tells the reader that Patrick is going to leave his with child(predicate) wife Mary. She did not want to believe what Patrick was saying , she still demanded to vigilant him dinner, as she went to the unblockze to get the leg of birth, Patrick t sure-enough(a) her not to make any dinner for him because his going out. Mary uses the big frozen leg of bear to hit Patrick on his head and he was still standing there for about 4 5 seconds and fell on the carpet. He was dead, Mary was surprised and boxed and this in crouch shocks the reader too. Mary right away went to the groceries to get some potatoes and when she got home, she called the law and said her husband ha s been killed. On the other hand the birth was in the oven cooking so, the pol screwball was asking her questions and they were meddlesome the house. The doctor told the police that Patrick was hit in the head. Mary offer the police men the lamb that she was cooking in the oven. As they were busy take the lamb they never knew they were eating the evidence and Mary started laughing.The LandladyThe landlady is a short story and is about a young boy called wand weaver finch and a woman. wand weaverbird took a train from London and he arrives late in Bath late which was nine oclock in the evening. He wanted a cheap hotel where he can sleep and they told him to act The Bell and Dragon and is a pub house. When he was going he notices a sign BED AND BREAKFAST. There was a vase of pussywillows, high and beautiful this tells us that the house is nice. When he rings the bell and old lady answered the door and told him to come inside. The Landlady told when he goes up st ancestrys he should sign the guest book. As nightstick was signing the guest he recognises two peoples names and they were the only names on the book and they are over two years olds. He tried to remember where he heard the names from. He remembers that one of them Eton was a school boy that disappeared but for Mr Temple he could not remember.The Landlady told offer Billy tea and Billy could smell something that comes from the woman. Billy and Landlady started talking and she said the Eton and Temple was very handsome young men but Billy was much better. Billy asked the Landlady if those people left the Bed and breakfast recently and she said two of the men are still in the fourth floor of the house. Billy was getting confused and he wanted to talk about some else like the parrot in a cage. When he was drinking his tea he notices a bitter almond taste and he ask the Landlady Havent there been any other guests here except them in the coating two or three years? She replies by saying No, my de ar. just now you.The writing technique Roald Dahl uses descriptive word in Lamb of the Slaughter Warm and Clean this tells us that the Mary Mahoney house is clean. On the other hand he uses But the air was noisome shabby and the wind was like a flat blade of ice on his cheeks describes how shabby it was and Billy needed a place to sleep. Roald also uses a simile which is to feel-almost as a sunbather feels the sun that warm male sting in the Lamb of the Slaughter and for the Landlady he uses But the air was deadly cold and the wind was like a flat blade of ice on his cheeks. Roald Dahl use a metaphor saying one thing is another There was a slow smiling air about her .Roald Dahl also uses emotion word like joyous which means it was a peaceful night for them also uses hyphen to separate words like bone-end in the Lamb to the Slaughter. Roald Dahl uses personification to surpass human qualities to any in animate object like in the Lamb of the Slaughter which was The wind whispe red his name and tortured her with his retentiveness this tells us that wind can not whisper or torture.The similarities of twain short storiesMary Mahoney and the Landlady are women both are short stories. The both stories theme are murder and which were committed by them (women). At first the both ladies is been described as been a nice generous and lady she took his coat and hung it in the closet tells us how caring and nice she is to her husband, still when the Landlady offers Billy a cup of tea shows us that she is nice and not every Bed and Breakfast owner will offer their customers free teas. But at the end of both stories Mary Mahoney and the Landlady tells us (reader) that they are not really nice ladies which intrigue the reader. The difference between Lamb to the Slaughter and the Landlady is that Mary Mahoney did not mean to kill her husband spells the Landlady has killed two people forwards Meaning she was planning to kill Billy Weaver as well. However, Mary was pr egnant and she has a husband which is Patrick and the Landlady was old and she does not have a husband. The both women use different ways to kill. Mary uses the frozen lamb she wanted to cooked for her husband Patrick whiles the Landlady poisoned Billys tea. The whim (atmosphere) of the Landlady is, windy and cold which gives the reader an idea of what the story is going to be like. Also the mood of the Lamb to the slaughter was calm and warm at the beginning but at the end it was kind of funny and scaring because when the police men where eating the lamb Mary giggle . The ironic scene of the Lamb to the Slaughter is that Mary kills Patrick while she prepared the leg of lamb for the police men to eat which means that they are eating the murder weapon while they were eating it they said the weapon might be right chthonian their noses. This tells us that the story could have ended in a unsound way but because the police men ate the leg of lamb they can not get any evidence.The crea tion and tension in the landlady is a horror story because the landlady was nice and generous to Billy and when he realise that the two guests and parrot was murdered by the landlady he became terrified and confused.The police were eating the evidence which was right under noses and I ideate it will be difficult to stick the truth which creates a shock to the reader. It also shocks the reader how Mary Mahoney was a loving wife and turn up to be a killer. In the Landlady it also shocks the reader when Billy asked the landlady if it was just two people that have been in the Bed and Breakfast recently for the last two or three years and she said yes which shocked us.Roald Dahl put the reader on suspense because when she kills her husband Patrick, she called the police that make us suspense that they are going to aim evidence or find out who killed her husband and she even gave them the lamb to eat making us anxious that they are going to find out what happened. For the Landlady Roa ld Dahl put us in suspense that is when she gives him a little smile as she replies, No, my dear. Only you. This makes us the reader get anxious to know if Billy was killed by the Landlady.In my conclusion I will say that Mary Mahoney was angry and she wanted revenge because husband Patrick was going to leave her and she was six month pregnant. She did not stand for before acting and she did not mean to kill the husband. For the Landlady I think she was nonsocial and sad. She was nice but at the end she became evil. I also think she sick because everybody that comes to her Bed and Breakfast she killed them even the dog and parrot. She killed them without feeling bad or even having mercy on them.