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Hephzibah Anderson´s Macabre Textbook

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In the article written by Hephzibah Anderson, Anderson states that Roald Dahl wrote macabre books for children to remind us that children’s lives are not always full of sunshine. First, she talks about how dark some of these stories tend to be and gives us some opinions about whether or not they help children. Then she gives us some background information on the author 's life, expressing how this may have caused him to write this way. Though many of the facts she showed influenced a negative idea of Roald Dahl, Anderson uses a quote, by Maria Nikolajeva, to show how these macabre stories can be “healthy” and “an important cognitive affective function”. In the end, Anderson shows us how children’s books can be both happy and sad while still

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