Up To Heaven

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Throughout The Way Up to Heaven by Roald Dahl there were many clues and instances that essentially lead up to the death or should I say murder, of Mr. Foster. Although it was not illustrated directly through the text, the story clearly implied that Mrs. Foster murdered her husband. The clear motive was the constant tardiness of Mr. Foster that fueled the wife to make her ultimate decision. Although there are a few little clues that help present this stance, the three main ones that have led me to this guilty verdict is the change in attitude, her twitch and the usage of the doorbell upon arrival. Mr. Foster thoroughly enjoyed tormenting his wife. The most important thing to Mrs. Foster was being on time, if she was late or was close to it …show more content…

Foster is late, a sort of anxiety attack takes over her body. This is what fueled Mr. Fosters enjoyment of his little tardiness game. One of the bigger aspects that become completely obvious when she is tardy, is the twitching of the eye. Whenever her time frame becomes smaller and her chances of becoming late, greater her eye starts to twitch. This is something that is mentioned in the story and also something that her husband seems to be aware of. But when she was going to get her husband from inside the house, and decided to leave him, there was no sign of her twitching. As if she was not worried of her husband interfering with her trip once again. As mentioned in the paragraph, when the driver looked at her, her eyes were “bright”, if that is the case another notable characteristic of her eyes would be the constant twitching of one of them. Mr. Foster loves his tardiness game and the way he is described in the story leads anyone to believe that he was capable of running out the house as soon as they pulled off and stopping the car. Mrs. Foster would of course know this as well, but the lack of eye twitching is evidence that she knew she was headed straight to the airport with all interruptions taken cared of. Mrs. Foster also only made the airplane only with a few minutes to spare, so if she needed to drive to downtown her eye would have been twitching uncontrollably because there would have been no way she would have made the airplane on

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