Tragedy In Roald Dahl's The Columbine School Shooting

Tragedy and sadness are all over the world, 9/11, The Columbine School Shooting, and now The Florida Shooting. In many of Roald Dahl’s books he has some hidden sadness and other messages in his novels and short stories. When Dahl was four he experienced tragedy from his father and sister dying. He has hidden messages in his books of what he experienced as a child and throughout his life. Dahl is a person whose had to deal with death at a young age. Dahl attended St. Peter's Preparatory School in Weston Mare as a small child, but Dahl had found out how adults could be abusive. Dahl uses that abusive past in most of his books, such as James and the Giant Peach and Matilda. This quote by Dahl shows some of the tragedy in his early life “Unless

Dahl is a very smart man and he had to live up to his father’s dying wish, which was for his children to be taught in English schools because they were sought to be the best schools in the world. He had been going to a school called St. Peter's Preparatory School, this is located in Jersey City, New Jersey. The adults there were not the kindest of people and were quite abusive, here is a quote from his book called Matilda. “She gave the hat a sharp yank. Mr Wormwood let out a yell that rattled the window-panes. "Ow-w-w!" he screamed. "Don't do that! Let go! You'll take half the skin off my forehead!" (page 3, Matilda). Dahl might have been abused this way while he was in school by the teachers and older children when he was alone or in the bathrooms and so have you. He has lots of harsh, abusive themes in his books. His young life is where he gets most of his inspiration in his books. Dahl had been a swimmer and a cricket player. Once Dahl was 13, he moved to Kent, England and had started to attend Repton Public School, while his sisters went to Sussex. The people and teachers at Repton Public School, were even worse to the him than they were at St. Peter’s Preparatory School. But, a few good things had happened to Dahl while he was at Repton, every now and again, was they would give out free chocolate bars from Cadbury’s. They had used the students there as test subjects for new flavors and types of chocolate they were manufacturing. This

He wrote a short story in the Saturday Evening Post, people enjoyed his short story. It soon began to be put on other magazines. Once his story was popular he began to write his first book, The Gremlins, it was a huge success and he got an interview from the New York Times Book Review and he told them “as I went on, the stories became less and less realistic and more fantastic. But becoming a writer was pure fluke. Without being asked to, I doubt if I'd ever have thought of it." Dahl would have never become a writer if his short story hadn’t been put on the Saturday Evening Post. Dahl kept writing and he soon had his big hit, James and the Giant Peach, which is about a boy named James' and how his happy life at the English seaside is abruptly ended when his parents are killed by a rhinoceros and he goes to live with his two terrible aunts. Dauntlessly, he saves the life of a spider, and he comes into possession of magic boiled crocodile tongues, after which an enormous peach starts to grow in the garden and he goes on a crazy adventure. His children had become a huge inspiration for him once they were old enough, he would tell the bedtime stories every night. He would always have to original and never use the same material twice. He would often use what he told his children as inspiration in his books. Dahl had been writing up until the day he died and he has many books out about him after he died, such as