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It seems like an impossible task to write about an author you revere. In a verbal comparisonit seems like the easiest thing in the world to do, but to actually put in writing the works and inspiration thereof, it is as if you seem to fall short. Well, here goes nothing as I recount . . . "The Life and Times of Roald Dahl.”
Dahl seemed to have to ability to entice his readers to actually pick up a book and read, and seeing as his stories were so full of entertainment and creativeness his audience often found it hard to put down his books, I know I did as I too am an avid Roald Dahl enthusiast. As a child I was introduced to some of Dahl’s books in the fifth grade and it opened my mind to a world of imagination and mystery and the unknown, which apprehended my inquisitive nature to want to know. I even had my mother buy the movie version of Matilda which always left me emphatically touched as I too could relate to Matilda, the main character in the story. Matilda was the daughter of an authoritarian father, an uninvolved mother, and had one brother. Her entire family seemed to have feigned interest in her daily life. Matilda loved to read, as I did and still do, and felt like an outcast in her family due to her love of reading, opposed to finding interest in television. In my case, however I was the only girl of three boys and always felt I had to strive for my mother’s attention which often steered me in the direction of a book that would alter my mind to a fantastical world where I could postpone reality.
Dahls writing always captured the ins and outs of what the youths of his time and myself were dealing with. He knew how to include comedy into a traumatic incidence to make the coping easier. James from James and the Giant Peach had to deal with the death of his mother and father along with mean aunts, that is not easy to deal with as a child. Dahl made abnormalities or certain things in life seem normal and ok to deal with. Along with James dealing with cruel aunts, so did Matilda when dealing with her family members. Although Matilda did not turn to mythical insecuts who could talk and keep him company, she found solace in books.