Roald Dahl was the author of some of the best novels known. Not only was he a writer, but he had many other careers such as a poet, fighter pilot, etc. Dahl experienced a lot throughout his life, from school to war. He wrote primarily stories aimed at children and was considered "one of the greatest children's storytellers of the 20th century." Many of his stories were about real events, but he exaggerated them to a large extent in order to make serious situations humorous. This exaggeration added a lot of humor to his stories and was the main reason why he was such a popular storyteller. Roald Dahl's book "Boy" is a story that is actually written about his own life from his early years until his departure. of school. It was his first autobiographical novel. It's about his experience at school and the system they had in place. He's written about some truly mean and cruel characters as well as some characters we can absolutely love. All of his characters and stories are extremely over-the-top. One of the foul characters was Mrs. Pratchett, the woman who worked at the candy store. She was described very vividly: “Her apron was gray and greasy. Her blouse was covered in breakfast bits, toast crumbs, tea stains, and dried egg yolk stains (Boy, page 33). “She was a skinny old witch with a mustache on her upper lip and a mouth as sour as a gooseberry,” (Boy, page 33). As we can see here through the way Dahl describes this character, he doesn't like her at all. Dahl and his friends decided to play a prank on Mrs. Pratchett. They found a dead mouse and Dahl suggested the clever idea of ​​putting it in one of his candy jars at the store. As they pulled down the middle of the paper...extremely descriptive. This description was probably the perfect description as we get a clear and precise understanding of his face and his shock. The nice thing about Dahl's books is that you are able to tell the difference between Dahl's good and bad characters as he describes them. from the start, they let us know that we are going to love or hate this person. Dahl is able to manipulate our emotions and how we feel towards certain characters by simply describing them to us. When we read these descriptions, we begin to develop this mental image of them and it continues to stay with us throughout the novel. The types of elements that were introduced in each passage to establish humor included figures of speech, a large amount of descriptive words and as we can see in each story, the use of exaggeration is common..