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The Landlady by Roald Dahl - Stanaway's Lesson Plans

20 Collection 1 / Telling StoriesPart 1 LITERARY FOCUS: FORESHADOWINGA wedding celebration comes to an abrupt end as a violent storm ragesthrough a village. Is this occurrence just a weather event, or might ithint at trouble ahead? Writers sometimes use clues or hints like this tosuggest events that will happen later in their stories. Using clues orhints this way is called foreshadowing. Foreshadowing helps to build afeeling of suspense in the reader. It is an important element in tales ofmystery and danger such as The Landlady .

than The Bell and Dragon. On the other hand, a pub would be more congenial4 than a boardinghouse. There would be beer and darts in the evenings, and lots of people to talk to, and it would probably be a good bit cheaper, too. He had stayed a couple of nights in a pub once before and he had liked it. He had never

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1 20 Collection 1 / Telling StoriesPart 1 LITERARY FOCUS: FORESHADOWINGA wedding celebration comes to an abrupt end as a violent storm ragesthrough a village. Is this occurrence just a weather event, or might ithint at trouble ahead? Writers sometimes use clues or hints like this tosuggest events that will happen later in their stories. Using clues orhints this way is called foreshadowing. Foreshadowing helps to build afeeling of suspense in the reader. It is an important element in tales ofmystery and danger such as The Landlady .

2 READING SKILLS: PREDICTINGWhen you make a prediction,or guess, about a story, you take note ofthe details you re given and try to figure out what will happen later. Asyou read The Landlady , you will discover that the writer has used fore-shadowing. Those clever clues will also help you make predictions. Youmay want to record your predictions in this chart as you read the story. Copyright by Holt, Rinehart and Winston. All rights Landlady by Roald DahlLiterary sees a notice in the window of a he presses the bell, awoman answers are no hats or coats inthe names in the guest bookseem familiar to parrot and the dog tea has an by Holt, Rinehart and Winston.

3 All rights Dahl The Landlady from Kiss, Kiss by Roald 1959 by Roald Dahl. Reproducedby permission of David Higham porter n.:person hired to carry Landlady 2110 Billy Weaver had traveled down from London on the slowafternoon train, with a change at Reading on the way, andby the time he got to Bath, it was about nine o clock in theevening, and the moon was coming up out of a clear starrysky over the houses opposite the station entrance. But theair was deadly cold and the wind was like a flat blade of iceon his cheeks.

4 Excuse me, he said, but is there a fairly cheap hotelnot too far away from here? Try The Bell and dragon , the porter1answered,pointing down the road. They might take you in. It s abouta quarter of a mile along on the other side. Illustration by Krysten at line 7. Circle thename of the characterwho isintroduced in this details that estab-lish the by Holt, Rinehart and Winston. All rights 1 / Telling StoriesPart 1 Billy thanked him and picked up his suitcase and setout to walk the quarter-mile to The Bell and dragon .

5 Hehad never been to Bath before. He didn t know anyone wholived there. But Mr. Greenslade at the head office in Londonhad told him it was a splendid town. Find your own lodg-ings, he had said, and then go along and report to thebranch manager as soon as you ve got yourself settled. Billy was seventeen years old. He was wearing a newnavy-blue overcoat, a new brown trilby hat,2and a newbrown suit, and he was feeling fine. He walked brisklydown the street. He was trying to do everything brisklythese days. Briskness, he had decided, was the one commoncharacteristic of all successful businessmen.

6 The big shotsup at the head office were absolutely fantastically brisk allthe time. They were were no shops on this wide street that he waswalking along, only a line of tall houses on each side, all ofthem identical. They had porches and pillars and four orfive steps going up to their front doors, and it was obviousthat once upon a time they had been very swanky now, even in the darkness, he could see that the paintwas peeling from the woodwork on their doors and windowsand that the handsome white facades3were cracked andblotchy from , in a downstairs window that was brilliantlyilluminated by a street lamp not six yards away, Billy caughtsight of a printed notice propped up against the glass inone of the upper panes.

7 It said Bed and Breakfast. Therewas a vase of yellow chrysanthemums, tall and beautiful,standing just underneath the stopped walking. He moved a bit closer. Greencurtains (some sort of velvety material) were hanging down2. trilby hat:soft hat with the top deeply facades(f s dz ) n.:fronts of lines 20 27. Howwould you describe Billy smood?Underline details in lines37 58 that make the board-inghouse seem inviting either side of the window. The chrysanthemums lookedwonderful beside them. He went right up and peeredthrough the glass into the room, and the first thing he sawwas a bright fire burning in the hearth.

8 On the carpet infront of the fire, a pretty little dachshund was curled upasleep with its nose tucked into its belly. The room itself,so far as he could see in the half darkness, was filled withpleasant furniture. There was a baby grand piano and a bigsofa and several plump armchairs, and in one corner hespotted a large parrot in a cage. Animals were usually agood sign in a place like this, Billy told himself; and all inall, it looked to him as though it would be a pretty decenthouse to stay in. Certainly it would be more comfortablethan The Bell and the other hand, a pub would be more congenial4than a boardinghouse.

9 There would be beer and darts in theevenings, and lots of people to talk to, and it would probablybe a good bit cheaper, too. He had stayed a couple of nightsin a pub once before and he had liked it. He had neverstayed in any boardinghouses, and, to be perfectly honest, hewas a tiny bit frightened of them. The name itself conjuredup5images of watery cabbage, rapacious6landladies, and apowerful smell of kippers7in the living dithering about8like this in the cold for two orthree minutes, Billy decided that he would walk on andtake a look at The Bell and dragon before making up hismind.

10 He turned to now a queer thing happened to him. He was inthe act of stepping back and turning away from the windowwhen all at once his eye was caught and held in the most506070 Copyright by Holt, Rinehart and Winston. All rights Landlady 234. congenial(k n j n y l) adj.:agreeable; conjured(kun j rd) up:called to rapacious (r p s) adj. kippersn.:fish that have been salted and smoked. Kippers arecommonly eaten for breakfast in Great dithering about: acting nervous and dachshund (line 49) is abreed of dog that has a longbody, short legs, and droopyears.


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