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This technique brings great imagery, which allowed the reader to picture easily, and feel close to the story. Comparably, Hunter has built tension, starting early in the story with strong figurative language of gloom and misfortune. The technique of unusual illustrations engages the active reader. Through the usage of sentences from the Landlady, such as, “I knew you would”, Dahl enlightens the reader with the general sense of consciousness to danger. Like a true ominous tale, it builds the tension slowly, through means of foreshadowing and symbolism. ‘The Landlady’ begins inconspicuously, with a young travelling man searching for a hotel. Through various techniques featured in the texts ‘Listen to the End’ and ‘The Landlady’, Hunter and Dahl, have created two texts with similar themes, but with varying execution of techniques. Whereas Dahl has named his character “Billy Weaver” and mentions more detail of his background and life story, which has the reader more empathy for the character. ‘Listen to the End’, Hunter did not name his main character and left the girl’s life unidentified. Here, Dahl is motivating the readers to question the Landlady. Tantalizing than thing like this that lingers just outside the borders of one’s memory”. He soon queries his surroundings by memory of strange events, “There is nothing more Although he is naïve and is entirely oblivious to the Landlady’s evil. Similarly, Dahl’s character, Billy Weaver, is made to be a young, handsome man, navigating his way to find somewhere to sleep on a cold night. The helpless, lonely girl is “clutching”, which resembles her fear and defencelessness.

A shield is used to protect oneself from harm. For example, Hunter uses the line, “she clutches her paper bag of groceries like a shield against the dark”. The main characters in both author’s texts are shaped to be vulnerable while being exposed but unaware to upcoming threat.

Short stories to write a textual analysis on