The Landlady

Base on the short story The Landlady by Roald Dahl, As the story, opens with Billy Weaver who has traveled alone from London to Bath for a work assignment. And the story begins with Billy and Landlady when they meet each other in the old lady's house. From the story, we can simply assume that the Landlady character more likely as a person with mental illness who interest in killing and stuffed humans and animals. For example, as the writer illustrates in the story she has stuffed dead bird and dog even human in her house.

In particularly why the Landlady acted as the storyline of this short story, Firstly we could say that the old lady is interested in horror and thriller action as murder or killing and keeping the body of the victim for fun with a freak hobby. Furthermore, she lives with no one around that could lead her to this kind of unacceptable acted that she does. Hence she absolutely in poor mental illness which no normal human being will acting like how "The Landlady" described in this short story.

Lamb To The Slaughter

Lamb To The Slaughter

The story begins with the normal life of a married couple. Mary Maloney a housewife in her few months of pregnancy, is waiting for her husband, Patrick Maloney to return home form the work. The tragic news that Patrick gives to her wife is the worst ever news in her life that the reader is never told, it is clear that Patrick is going to divorce her. Without a doubt, Patrick ends his speech by saying that he will provide her wife with money and take care of her and he hopes no problem in any case because that will be affected by his job as a policeman.

The announcement that she had effected her emotionally because she loses the man she loves the most in her life as her husband. Moreover, she is pregnant and this will be a nightmare to her condition emotionally and physiologically. 

The reaction of Mary Maloney is personally unbelievable to think by killing her beloved husband. In the first place, she acted like nothing happened and she ready to prepare supper for both of them. Afterward, she carried the leg of lamb upstairs and swing hard to the back of Patrick's head and her husband collapse in a few seconds later. Thus tragic event already happened she create the scene to save herself from the legal consequences.

THE NECKLACE

This short story "The Necklace" by Guy De Maupassant tells about the life of one lovely couple that lives in France. Their life is not luxurious and not poor but just simple. Base on the story my favorite character is Mathilde Loisel's husband. He's the one lovely and kind husband and willing to do just anything to please his wife. And he willing to buy a new dress for his wife worth four hundred francs of from saving money.

 

Also, her husband was a very patient and diligent person. For example, he worked hard to replace the lost jewelry of his wife borrowed from Mrs.Forestier to attend to a special party. After so much effort that her husband work on he managed to buy a replacement or the lost necklace which is worth almost thirty-six thousand francs.

Furthermore, Mathilde's husband is an honorable person and also sets a good example for everyone, especially for men how to be a good husband and responsible in all situations. Despite the need to make great sacrifices. For example, he had to spend ten years paying off his debt and losing everything to make his wife happy. For the most part, we all should take a great example from this interesting story.

                How to deal with insomnia?

Many people suffer from insomnia, which is a sleep disorder where the sufferer has difficulty falling asleep. This condition can bring about many health problems. Therefore people with insomnia have one or more of the following symptoms, waking up often during the night and having trouble going back to sleep and also waking up early in the morning.

No matter what your age insomnia is treatable. The key is changing the daily routine during the day and also when you go to bed. These tips may help. Firstly stick to a sleep schedule and keep your bedtime and wake time consistent from day to day, including weekends. Secondly stay active, schedule exercise at least a few hours before bedtime. Lastly to avoid large meals and beverages before bed to rest the stomach activities.

In conclusion, these are several tips that come from the doctor itself to prove that lifestyle and daily routine can help and prevent insomnia and improve sleeping time.

The Elves and The Shoemaker

This story is about a shoemaker, his wife, and two elves. The shoemaker was very poor. He could not buy leather to make shoes. One morning, he went to his shop. He found a pair of ready-made shoes. He sold the shoes. He bought more leather. Every morning, he found pairs of ready-made shoes. He sold the shoes. Soon, the shoemaker had lots of gold. The shoemaker and his wife wanted to know who made the shoes.

They found out that two elves made beautiful shoes at night. In the morning, the elves would leave. The shoemaker and his wife made clothes for the elves. They were very thankful for the elves. The elves were very happy. They put on their new clothes and danced. Then, the elves went away. They never came back.




-moral values you can learn from the story of 'The Elves and The Shoemaker:



 From the story of The Elves and The Shoemaker, we can learn so many moral values. At first, The poor shoemaker showed never give up on making a shoe even they were going through a bad time. Secondly, The Elves showing kindness in helping the poor shoemaker by crafting a pair of lovely shoes and by doing that poor shoemaker able to sell that particular shoe with a good amount of money to keep their business running. Apart from this action, the poor shoemaker was able to purchase leather for two pairs of a shoe. Thirdly, the shoemaker wants to reward the elves for their work by sews clothes for them. The woman stitched pretty little clothes and laid them among many other presents on the table. The Elves and Shoemaker give us great meaning and the moral of helping each other in whatever situations.

By: Kamaludin

The Selfish Giant

I learned about the story of The Selfish Giant is about the love of a selfish to a little boy who taught him to share his garden with others and change, the Giant received the Paradise. the values found in The Selfish Giant is the kindness, happiness, selfishness, and friendship.  Firstly act of kindness shown by  The  Selfish Giant by allowing the children his garden after realizing his mistake.  Secondly, the value of pure happiness shown by the story which the little boy who embrace and kissed him when he helped him to get on top of the tree. finally, The Selfish Giant was shown his value of friendship by sharing his garden to the children and his very happy to live altogether with them. conclusion the story teaches us how the importance of kindness, happiness, selfishness, and friendship in real-world life.

By: kamaludin

Rumpelstiltskin

 

   

Sadness and sympathy to Rumplestiltskin with the little mistake he had wiped himself out of existence away from this world. Although he had tricked a miller's daughter by turning the straw into a gold but it turned out that the miller's daughter was not willing to hand over her child to the Rumplestiltskin. Thus, she sending out her assistant silently to follow Rumplestiltskin up to the jungle to know his real name. After the miller's daughter revealed his real name, Rumpelstiltskin screamed at her and angrily said the devil had told his real name and angrily he drove his right foot so far into the ground that he creates a chasm and falls into it, never to be seen again. Moral of the story do not overconfident in whatever things that we do until we succeed on the objective.

 

BY: Kamaludin