Do You Know This Story?

[Nameless14]

Read the following text in its entirety carefully: https://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/sites/teacheng/files/landlady_text.pdf
Once you have read the text: Answer the following questions. Quote from the text if necessary.
a. When do the events happen? (Season, moment of the day).
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b. Where does the scene take place? (Name of the town, details about the street).
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c. Who is the main character present? (Name, age, clothes, job)
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d. What is the story about? (sum it up in one sentence)
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e. What happened suddenly?
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f. Quote 6 expressions (from line 38 down to line 48) which make Billy think that the boarding house “would be a pretty decent house to stay in”.
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g. Something strange seems to be happening so far…Quote 3 examples which are puzzling for Billy and the reader.
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Make a list of the elements that give a negative impression and foreshadow the events?
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The cliff-hanging ending. Is there any explicit denouement? What can readers conclude?

[goodgoalie]

I conclude that this is not a homework site

[EDDIE51]

Why not read the story and answer your own homework questions?

[spathiphyllum]

answer to A:


The events happen at nine o clock in the evening in Bath, however the story starts in the afternoon, on a train that's going past Swindon.

I know this because the first two sentences describe the time of day and location of the scene.

"Billy Weaver had travelled down from
London on the slow afternoon train, with a
change at Swindon on the way, and by the
time he got to Bath it was about nine
o’clock in the evening"

[MallyJ]

This is your homework...tha emphasis being 'your' not ours. You really should stop attempting to get others to do it for you.

[spathiphyllum]

When answering the question, make sure to start your answer with the question you're being asked. for example if someone says to you what is your gender, start with my gender is... This helps when answering questions and helps the word count and the teacher to keep track of where you are .