Roald Dahl's Shot Down

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Roald Dahl was born in Wales in 1916 to two Norwegian parents. His father passed away when he was just four years old. His mother put him and his five siblings in British boarding schools during the year and they spent their summers with their grandparents and family on a little Norwegian Island. He loved fishing and swimming in the summer, but disliked school, especially because of one of his headmasters. At the Repton School, where Dahl finished his schooling, they beat students for even the smallest mistakes. Dahl was a very mischievous kid; and he spent a lot of time being beaten by the headmaster and the older boys at the school. His mother offered to pay for his tuition at Oxford or Cambridge, but he had no interest in college. Dahl …show more content…

In late 1942 his first paid piece of writing, Shot Down Over Libya, was anonymously published in The Saturday Evening Post. He enjoyed writing, so he began working on a children's folklore book in 1943 called The Gremlins; a story about little creatures that cause many mechanical failures on planes in the war. This story grabbed the attention of Walt Disney, who wanted to make it into a short film. Eleanor Roosevelt read the book to her children, so he is invited to the White House. Even after all the attention, the story is not super successful so he goes back into writing material for older …show more content…

The story is about Willy Wonka, the sole owner of a chocolate factory, comng out after years of being in his factory and saying that five lucky people will be given a complete tour of the factory, be revealed to all the secrets of his amazing candy, and one of the five will win a lifetime supply Wonka chocolate. The film came out in theaters in 1971 as Willy Wonka and The Chocolate Factory and Tim Burton made a revamped version in 2005 as the original name Charlie and The Chocolate Factory. Dahl’s writing work is sometimes criticized for lacking depth, but the way that he writes has so many twists and turns in the plot that it kept the reader enthralled to the very end. His storytelling is not boring but draws in the reader with his own alternate view of the world. My writing style is somewhat like his in the vivid imagery through lots of figurative languge. He would also humorously match character names with their personality in his childrens’ books, for example a corpulent golden ticket winner Augustus Gloop in Charlie in the Chocolate Factory. Although Dahl did not hit huge success until later in his life, he made a big influence in the literary and film industry, especially for someone who did not attend college. His seemingly timeless works will be enjoyed for years to

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