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Writing Home

     This chapter talks about how Dahl wrote to his Mum every single week until his mother died, 32 years later. In his boarding school, each boy had to write to their parents at least once a week and thats what Dahl did. The headmaster was checking the letters not for spelling mistakes but for what the students wrote. The students werent brave enough to write that they hated one master at the school for example because they were way too scared of the scary large headmaster.

     I think that it was right that the school made them write a letter a least once a week so that they could have some contact with their parents. But it did not have so much sence to write to the parents what the headmaster wanted them to write so I dont think it was nice of him to do that.

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                             Going to Norway and The Magic Island 


Roald Dahl talks about what he did in his summer hollydays. He always went to Norway for his vacation. His mother had to pack six suitcases!!! First, they took the train to London, then another one for a town, then they continued by a big boat to Oslo. They stayed for a night at their grandparent's house. Their grandparents were called Bestemama and Bestepapa. The next day, Raold Dahl and his family took a smaller boat to a tiny island to an old hotel owned by some old people. The hotel was so old that they didn't even have a normal toilet! If you needed to use the toiet, you had to go out of the house and the there, you sat on a hole. Disgusting!!!  When the kids were older, Roald Dahl's mom bought a very old motorboat. That way, they were able to sail to far islands. That was really fun in Roald Dahl's oppinion, but one of his sisters dind't appreciate it so much!

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                     Mrs Pratchett's Revenge

     Mrs Pratchett came to the Headmaster and made him punish Dahl and his friends for the "great" mouse plot. The punishment was that each of the children were hit really hard on their bottoms five times and if one of them jumped up, then they would get a bonus hit. When Dahl came home and his mother saw and heard what happened to him., she wasn't going to accept this so she went to talk to the Headmaster. Dahl's mother decided to send Dahl to a boarding school.

     I think that this kind of punishment is really bad and I felt so sad for Dahl and his friends. I don't think that people should use violence for punishments and I'm happy that now there is a rule that in most countries your not allowed to give those kind of punishments anymore.

     In my experience, I didn't really have any punishments but my friends had some. They had punishments like writing down a hundred times one sentence,  standing in the corner, siting on the bench at recess, extra homework or just being hit with a ruler on the fingers but that wasn't really painful and it was just a kind of a warning. I think that the punishments missing recess or standing in the corner, writing sentences or extra homework are better punishments than hitting and using violence.

     Roald Dahl used a lot of adjectives, similes and synonyms to make his writing more interesting. He also used dialogs and that made his writing nice to read.

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                                                Mr Coombes
      
This chapter was about when Mrs Peatchett came to Roald's school with complains that one tof the boys from the school putted the mouse in the gobstoper jar. She new that it was Roald Dahl and his friends so she said it to theHeadmaster and of curse he beleived her. I didn't like that chapter so much because it wasn't really funny like the last chapter. The best part in the chapter is I think when the boys actually discover that Mrs Pratchett was still alive.

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                           The Mouse Plot

In this chapter, Roald Dahl found a dead mouse with his friends and he had a great idea to put this mouse in the gobstopper jar so that Mrs Pratchett would take the mouse out instead of the candy. Their plan was to go to the shop and ask for a candy so that Mrs Pratchett would turn around and Roald Dahl would put the mouse in the gobstopper jar. They succeeded!

I think that his idea really cool and fun and it will give a lesson to Mrs Pratchett. I think that the funniest part was in the sentence when they felt like desperadoes. 

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                   Kindergarden 1922-1923
This chapter was sad because Roaldahl was talking about his sister's and father's death. Now his mother had to take care of five children and at the same time she was pregnant. So in total she had to take care of six children. She had to move to England because her husband's wish was that all of his children would go to English schools. Roaldahl was also talking about how he was racing wis his eldest sister when they were going to school.

I felt really sad about him and his mother because of all of the things that happened. His mother had to have a lot of work with six children all by herself.

The Phone Goes Dead

Linda James dies in Hyde Park when a flash of lighting hit her and she throws her phone and it hit the ground. We will never find out any thing else about her, but the phone, that’s a different story. An old man was walking and saw the phone and he changed the Sim-card to a new one. He sold the phone to a man that was called Mark Adams. Mark bought the phone for his son, David who was sixteen. One day, the phone rings. It was an old man that was speaking and David answered. He did not know that man; all he knew about him was his name, which was Eric Saunders. He decided to ask her mother if she ever herd of someone named like that. She said that that man once used to be her friend’s husband, but he died six weeks ago because of lung cancer.

The mane character was a bit foolish because he was at first scared to tell his mom about that man that phoned him, but I think that he made the right chose to tell her about it. I liked that the story changed really quickly like in the beginning and I like those kind of stories because they don’t talk all the time about that same thing so they don’t get boring. For example, the story was first talking about a woman that was called Linda James and it suddenly changed to a whole different story talking about a boy called David and a phone.

The second thing that I liked for example was that the story had some suspense. I really like stories that have suspense because they are not boring like stories that are predictable. For example, when the old man phoned to David, it was almost unpredictable to guess that the man was actually dead.

I would recommend this story to somebody that’s around 11 and that likes scary stories. I wouldn’t recommend this story to somebody that’s younger than 11 because that story might be a bit confusing especially in the beginning when the story kind of switches around. I wouldn’t recommend his story to somebody that doesn’t like scary stories because that person might have nightmares about it.

More Scary Stories By Alvin Schwartz

                            The Cementery
There once was a young lady that was coming back from work. She was really tired so she decided to take a short cut through the cementery. She walked really quickly because she did not feel reall comfteble in the middle of the cementry. Suddenly, she saw a woman walking not so far from her. She decided to catch up with her and ask her if she could walk with her.
"Can I walk with you? I feel really scared walking by my self in the middle of the cementry."
"I know what you feel. I felt the same way when I was a...
That story was really short but it has a crazy ending. I wish the writer wrote that story a bit longer.

More Scary Stories By Alvin Schwartz

                                                      The Brown Suit
This short story is about a man that died. His wife came to the funeral parlor to see her husband's corpse. When she saw her husband in the coffin, she started crying. The funeral parlor felt really sad for her and asked if he could do something for her. The woman said that she would like her husband to wear a brown suit instead of wearing the blue one that he was now wearing.
"My husband only wore brown suits" she said. The man said no problem and that he was going to change it.
"But you really don't have to" said the woman. But the man really insited. The woman went to work. When she came back, she saw that the man was wearing the blue suit that her husband was wearing before and her husband was wearing the brown suit that was wearing the man....

That story had a twist ending. It is really crazy if you think about it. Liked it really much because it has a crazy topic.

Feeding the dog by Susan Price

   This story is about a witch named Downing. He was a really mean and selfish witch. He had a wife and a lot of children. He'd spent years learning witchcraft. He always protected his children from other people .The deal was if someone hearted or did anything bad to the children, he would throw a curse on that person. So, no one ever got near those children because evryone was too scared of Downing.
    
   One day, some of his children went out to a farm. They started hiting the pigs from that farm with sticks. The owner of that farm was named Hollis. Hollis saw them and got really angry and grabbed one of the children and started hiting him. When the children got home, they told everything to their father. The father got so angry that he decided to throw the most horrible spell he new on Hollis. He created this horrible monster with shiny eyes. Then Downing said to the creature: "Hollis."  


   The next day Hollis disapeared. He wasn't in his bed anymore. No one found him. At night the monster came back. Downing dind't know what to do. He tried to stand up from his bed, but the monster growled. So he said a name of the lady he saw yesterday. The monster kept on coming back. Donling started running out of names. One night he didn't know what to say. He said: "My wife" The next night he said: My baby" And he kept on saying that until The monster ate all of his children. The monster still came back next night at his bed and Downing...


   The story had a bit of suspense but it was too short to be FULL of suspense. The part that had the most suspense was the end... The story had some predictable parts like the ending for example. I liked the message of the story because it tells somethingreally important. That important message is: If you are mean to people then something bad will happen to you. I did not like most of the characters like the witch or the creature because they were mean. I liked the style of writing but it was sometimes conusing.


   I would recomend this book to people who like scary stories.

Vicky Angel

         This book is about a girl named Jade. Jade had a best friend named Vicky. They were closer than sisters! One day, Vicky got run over by a car and she died in a comma. Jade felt really bad about it and got sick. But something was really strange; Jade started seeing and hearing Vicky! She was the only one who could do that so everyone though she was crazy. Jade could see Vicky doing all sorts of different stuff just like ghosts. She could fly like a ghost, she could go through walls like a ghost, she was invisible like a ghost (Except for Jade that was the only one that could see her.) she acyually became a ghost! From that time, Vicky "Ghost" was always with Jade. She sleped with Jade, she ate with Jade and she went to school with Jade. Jade kind of felt like she was being hounted. Jade was being sick of Vicky. Vicky was making her loose her friends and have bad grades at school.

Until one day...
That book is really great and I would recomend it to the girls age rom age 10.

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