A Study Guide for Roald Dahl's "Poison"
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Poison
Roald Dahl
1950
Introduction
The British writer Roald Dahl is best known for his children's fiction, such as Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and James and the Giant Peach, but his first best-selling book was Someone Like You (1953), a short-story collection for adults. Dahl's tales for older readers, like his children's literature, display his trademark macabre sense of humor: his twist endings are varying mixtures of surprising, funny, and disturbing.
Poison,
which first appeared in Collier's in 1950, is included in Someone Like You. The tale also appears in The Collected Short Stories of Roald Dahl (1992). It is a good example of Dahl's sometimes shocking conclusions. It starts out seeming like a story of suspense: a man comes home to find his friend paralyzed with fear because a deadly snake has crept into his bed while he lies there reading. The narrative is fraught with tension as the narrator and the local doctor attempt to inject Harry with antivenom and sedate the snake with chloroform, all without provoking the animal to strike. The close of the story, however, shows that the most frightening kind of poison is not the literal sort but the darker side of human nature.
Author Biography
Dahl was born on September 13, 1916, in Llandaff, South Wales. His parents, Norwegian immigrants, took him to visit his grandparents in Oslo each summer. When Dahl was only four years old, his father died. For the next five years, Dahl lived with his mother and attended the Llandaff Cathedral School.
When he was nine, Dahl showed the first signs of his lifelong tendency to resist the rules in favor of humor and mischief by putting a dead mouse in a jar at a local candy shop. His school principal beat him when the prank was revealed. After this harsh punishment, Dahl's mother withdrew him from Llandaff Cathedral School and sent him to a boarding school in England.
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