The Landlady essay

The Landlady essay

The Landlady, Lamb to the slaughter and The Hitchhiker. We have to choose 2 stories and write 1200 words about “the ways that Roald Dahl presents ideas about the good and bad in people in the Tales of the Unexpected”. I’ve chosen to do Lamb to the slaughter and The Landlady. I’ve already done the first one but im struggling with the second one as it’s a bit harder.

So here are the questions which are on the planning sheet;

Quotations about; How Billy is described

– What literary devices or uses of figurative language are there?

– What is the effect of the words?

– What impression of Billy do you get? What sort of person is he?

Quotations or examples about; The Landlady that suggest she is “good”

– Say what each quotation is suggesting about her.

– What does Billy think about the Landlady?

– Find some language devices used and say what the effect of them is?

Quotations or examples about; The Landlady that suggest she is “bad”

– Say what each quotation is suggesting about her.

– What is the reader thinking about the Landlady?

– Find some language devices used and say what the effect of them is?

All of that needs to be 700 words.

Here is what I’ve done for Lamb to the slaughter; http://prntscr.com/93avgr.

If someone could suggest how to improve it it would be great.

Here are the links for these two stories;

Lamb to the slaughter – http://www.classicshorts.com/stories/lamb.html

The Landlady – https://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/sites/teacheng/files/landlady_text.pdf