Work for week 2-5 June 2020: Roald Dahl

Here’s the work for next week :
Task for next week (Tuesday 2 - Friday 5 June).

Read 2 short stories online:
1. Roald Dahl’s "The Landlady"


and

2. Roald Dahl’s "Lamb to the Slaughter"

And be ready to discuss during your online class.

Specifically,
1. decide what you liked/disliked/appreciated about both texts,
2. choose which one was your favorite and be ready to explain why,
3. be ready to explore the various literary techniques employed: character development, foreshadowing, symbolism, imagery, dialogue, setting etc.

In addition, can you do a little research into Roald Dahl, and the writing he did both for children and for adults.
Be ready to discuss your research and any of his other work you might have seen or read during your life: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Fabulous Mr Fox, The Twits...

Before you read, you should know that both short stories are crime/detective stories with darks twists. So don’t read them late at night !

If you are interested, there are film versions (which you can watch AFTER reading the text). Be warned, they are quite macabre (especially The Landlady…) and so not at all required watching!

Tales of the Unexpected (even darker than the short story… as it pushes on past the ending of the text): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpDb4EcSnLE
A lighter more modern version (by unknown actors): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTy6FZmOQNc


If you are interested, here is a 2016 New Yorker article on Dahl's more adult stories...
Kind regards,
Mrs C
ps/ please do let me know if you have problems accessing either of the files.

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