The Roald Dahl story “The Landlady” starts off with a boy called Billy Weaver looking for a place to stay for the night. The fact that it is night and the moon is up over a starry night, gives the town an eerie sense to it as if it’s a special night where something is going to happen. Also the point is that it is nighttime suggests that there are going to be few people on the streets.
It starts with a welcoming smile from the landlady, and it leads into a warm house with burning fireplace, animals on the floor and a bird in a cage. Not very fearful but things begin to change as the story progresses.
Roald Dahl introduces us to the Landlady by telling us how sweet and middle age woman who looks like a mother of one best friend welcoming one into the house to stay for Christmas. She is presented as a lady with a round pink face, and gentle blue eyes. But this brings some sense of fear of the unexpected. As the reader reads on through the tale he take all the understanding of the old woman is of her extreme nice but yet brings the suspicion of what would be hiding beneath her innocent smile. As some are believe of the thought all those who are as nice as this middle age woman does how presented her self there could be some sort of dark story behind her.
The Red Room, by H G wells. This book is based on a unnamed man who gasts a castle with a suspected haunted room. This unnamed man (narrator) goes to this castle to reveal the truth of the haunted room. If there a real ghost a real supernatural being or is it nothing but of a figment of the imagination.
As the readers read on within the story suspense of what will happen as the story furthers the readers ‘mind flares with thoughts of what shall happen and is that a case of the supernatural but a case of the human illusions’.
Tension is built up when one of the caretakers, the women kept mentioning “this night of all nights” and “its your own choosing” both of these quotes make people feel that something big going to happen. When the old woman was saying this is the night of all night it began some tension because she kept on saying it so that the unnamed boy would not go to the red room because she was implying that this night is a anniversary of someone who’s dead. There was still tension when the old woman said to the unnamed man you go alone so that she was trying to say that night was a bad night, the unnamed boy still wanted to go to the red room because he said “it is what I came for” the three custodians made the boy feel uncomfortable, because they were didn’t want