The Landlady Analysis

In the short story "The Landlady" by Roalh Dahl we encounter a young man named Billy. He just got off the train from London and is looking for a place to sleep. He finds an attractive Bed and Breakfast and decides to stay there because of its low price. After the somewhat creepy landlady shows him his room, he proceeds to sign a book with all of his personal data. There he sees two names, Gregory Temple and Christopher Mulholand. After wondering for a couple of minutes, Billy realizes that those are the names of two men who went missing a couple of years ago. Then he is offered some tea, which he accepts but soon realizes that it has been poisoned. As Billy dies, we find out the landladies plan which is to conserve the body like Temples or Mulhollands.


Roalh Dahl writing is amazing, given his strong use of imagery which helps the reader visualize the story.

Billy Weaver had traveled down from London on the slow afternoon train, with a change at Reading on the way, and by the time he got to Bath, it was about nine o’clock in the evening, and the moon was coming up out of a clear starry sky over the houses opposite the station entrance. But the air was deadly cold and the wind was like a flat blade of ice on his cheeks. 

This short peace pulled from the story is one of many examples of imagery. By reading this we can have a much stronger image of the night in which Billy arrived .

Nevertheless, Dahls strongest suit is characterization. Dahl's has a characterization much stronger than other authors and this gives his story a bigger depth.

She seemed terribly nice. She looked exactly like the mother of one’s best school friend welcoming one into the house to stay for the Christmas holidays. Billy took off his hat and stepped over the threshold. 

This is how Dalh describes the Landlady in Billy's perspective. By reading this, we can understand very clearly the type of character Billy perceives her to be. This is so good because Dalh connects her to someone in our lifes and we can imagine her very clearly.

The message of the story is very important because it helps us protect ourselves by never trusting strangers. Dalh's writing is tested in his stories and he never dissapoints. This story is very good because it has a strong imagery and characterization, which gives the story a depth unlike any other.



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Climax

In this weeks reading, a lot of new content about the story was revealed. First, we learned that the memories have had a very large effect on him. We can see this when in the books Jonas gets really emotional and afraid after seeing his friends play a game of warfare. This is due to Jonas memory of warfare. After this event transpire, Asher gets in a fight with Jonas because he had ruined the game for everyone. The next morning, Jonas finally asks the giver about the previous receiver whom name was Rosemary. We learned what had happened to Rosemary, this involved her applying for release due to her suffering as receiver. One of the most shocking discoveries was that we learned that release is death. We learned this when Jonas watched the video of the release of a little baby that father would be performing. This is when the story reaches its climax. After this, Jonas formulates a plan to stop sameness and bring back what once was. We are left with a lot of questions and I look forward to finishing the book.

"No. I have to stay here," The Giver said firmly. " I want to, Jonas. If I go with you, and together we take away all their protection from the memories, Jonas, the community will be left with no one to help them. They'll  be thrown into chaos. The´ll destroy themselves. I can't go."

In this quote we can see the book's theme is about the importance of memories. We can see this because here is shown what is the importance of memories, but specifically what is the importance of keeping them. Previously, we knew that it was an honorable job with a lot of importance, but now we know specifically what will happen if the community's protection would cease, chaos. There is also a very large importance of memories because the book explains us what knowledge can memories bring, and its big importance in our life. Later in the book, this theme is brought once again when the giver explains to Jonas that he will need every memory of courage and wisdom to complete his mission.

This book has been very interesting and have given us many information that is not fiction. For example, the importance of memory has a high importance in our world. This is significant because we need memories and experience too chose wisely in our life. The book has also taught us that we accept the reality which we are presented. This is a wise quote because it explains that this could really happen. I have greatly enjoyed this book and cant wait to finish it and discover if Jonas' plan works, and what will be the result.