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'The Sound Machine' by Roald Dahl. Vocabulary

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'The Sound Machine' by Roald Dahl. Vocabulary

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Littering: piece of waste or rubbish that has been disposed of improperly, without consent and at the wrong location.
Twitchy: nervous; anxious.
Innards: Organs inside a machine
Knob: round device for controlling a machine
Coffinbox: Box in wich a dead person is placed.
Shriek:  To shout

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"A wall of grey dust arose shutting out everything. The rumbling
of moving rocks came through the cloud of dust. Then the cloud rose and went inland.

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"It seemed to bend its head as it hurled forward to ram the cliff. In a moment
the wave and the cliff had disappeared in a tumbling mass of white water that yawned and hissed and roared."

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"Between the reefs there was a little cove. But the sea did not reach to the semicircle of the cliff. Only its waves swept up from the deep over the flat rock to the cliff."

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"the sea moved so violently that the two reefs bared with each receding wave
until they seemed to be long shafts of black steel sunk into the bowels of the ocean"

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"The cliff was two hundred feet high. It sloped outwards from its grassy summit, along ten feet of brown gravel, down one hundred and seventy feet of grey limestone, giant slabs piled horizontally with large slits between the slabs where sea-birds nested."
"The cliff was semicircular. And at each corner a black jagged reef jutted from its base out into the sea. "

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Permanence

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. It is wild and chaotic and angry.Since there are no human characters, nature elements become the main characters.

The Cliff:  the cliff is considered hard and silent but it also presents signs of weakness "crashing waves have carved out a cavern at its base."

Waves: It is is constant movement. we can see it is wild and chaotic and angry with the way it pounds the rocks.

Smaller waves: they are not unified, they do little damage to the cliff, and they retreat

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What we most like about this author is the way in which he combines  brutal naturalism, psychological analysis, poetry, and biting satire with an abiding respect for the courage and persistence of the Irish people. for this same reason, he was considered a leading figure to Irish Renaissance. in addition, the message he was trying to give us is that the repeated trials and errors lead one to success, which is very important to keep in mind.

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“It's impossible for a creative artist to be either a Puritan or a Fascist, because both are a negation of the creative urge. The only things a creative artist can be opposed to are ugliness and injustice.”
― Liam O'Flaherty

“I was born on a storm-swept rock and hate the soft growth of sun-baked lands where there is no frost in men's bones. ”
― Liam O'Flaherty

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Thy Neighbour’s Wife (1923), his successful first novel; The Black Soul (1924), The Informer (1925; adapted as an Oscar-winning film by john ford 1935) and many more.

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10 Facts:

1. Born | 28 August 1896 Inishmore, Ireland

2. Died | 7 September 1984 (aged 88) Dublin, Ireland

3. He worked as lumberjack, hotel porter, miner, factory worker, dishwasher, bank clerk, and deckhand.

4. He was part of the france military front, 1915 he was wounded so he had to leave the army.

5. After war, he was a founding member of the communist party of Ireland.

6. After he got better,  wanted to live in different countries, from Brasil to United States. 1921 got in a depression and he was back in his country, Ireland.

7. His successful first novel was Thy Neighbour’s Wife (1923).

8. In his short stories like to combine brutal naturalism, psycology analisis, poetry.

9. Irish novelist and short-story writer.

10.O'Flaherty is regarded as a strong voice for Irish nature and its culture.

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meaning of the words:

cliffs:  a very steep, vertical, or overhanging face of rock, earth, or ice : precipice.

shafts: The word shaft can describe all kinds of things that are long and thin.

yawning: (of an opening or space) very large and wide.

debris: broken pieces of something.

fangs: a large sharp tooth, especially a canine tooth of a dog or wolf.

thus: as a result or consequence of this; therefore.

ajar: slightly open.