Unexpected ending, typical Roald Dahl

Today at class we were supposed to read a novel by Roald Dahl and I choose ``Landlady.``  

At the beginning I thought I was about to read about a young boy who tries to find a place to live in England, but afterwards I knew this novel is going to be about completely different topic.  This young man was supposed to find a place to live for a couple days, and he ended up with living with an old lady, who was a bit strange. At the beginning she was really nice, but after some time you understood that she was really creepy. This young man had to write in a guestbook, and there he saw to names that were familiar for him. He said the he had heard about these names before and that he was pretty sure that he had heard about them before. The lady said they didn’t leave her and that these boys still live at the third floor. He find that really strange. I saw the TV-version made by Hitchcock and there,  in the end of the episode he tried to  talk to these guys because he saw the old lady was walking up to the third floor, but when he tried to open up the doors, they were locked.  I think he understood that these boys were killed, but I am not sure. I think this novel was really strange and creepy and so the episode but I’m sure some of you liked it.

 

Have you ever read Land Lady, or have you ever read a book that Roald Dahl has written?

I can answer some of your questions if you haven’t read it and you want to find out more about it! 

- Ewa

Culture and Social values in USA.

This is written by me, but my friend Amalie www.amaliepaasandvika.blogspot.no has written more about Social values while I decided to write more about Culture.

Politics

 

Everybody wants to have a nation where everybody is able to be themselves and where there's no difference between black and white people. The best example of it, is that for the first time in history USA got a president that wasn't ``white``. People started to believe that everything’s possible.

Barack Obama is the president of the United States of America and he is from Democratic Party. As we all know USA has only 2 parties, democratic and republican.  Every fourth year we have president election. Barack Obama was chosen in 2008 which means that we are going to have new selection in November.  Barack Obama is up for election again but he can only be chosen twice. (The government decided to make a law that nobody is allowed to be up to election more than two times, after F. Roosevelt died in 1945, he was a president from 1933 to 1945) Mitt Romney is up for elections from republicans.

Religion

I think many of you know that religion is very important in USA. The largest religion in the US is Christianity, practiced by the majority of the population (76% in 2008). From those queried, roughly 51.3% of Americans are Protestants, 23.9% are Catholics. I found this information on Wikipedia, but I have some questions for you guys, and I will really appreciate if some of u is willing to answer.

Here, in Norway we have a subject called RLE. The subject is about Religion, Ethics and way of living (we have this subject in middle school) but I’m wondering, do you have any subjects like RLE in USA?

And the last question: Do you have any thoughts about the coming Election?