“Never do anything halfway if you want to get away with it. Be scandalous. Go all the way. Make sure that everything you do is so completely crazy that it is unbelievable." (Dahl et al., 2013). Roald Dahl is well known as someone who loves to use humor in his storybooks to make children laugh their hearts out and adults too. In the following essay it will be examined how Dahl uses humor in his books Boy and Georges Marvelous Medicine to manipulate the reader's perception of the events that happen. You can write about anything for children as long as you have humor (Dahl et al., 2014) In Boy, Dahl makes use of humor to transform some events that turned out to be quite serious into rather funny ones by using persuasive language such as sarcasm, hyperbole, short sentences, images, similes and juxtapositions (rose96 et al., 2011).When Dahl goes to the doctor he uses exaggeration to describe the amount of flesh like blood that came out of his mouth from the adenoids that were removed “…from my mouth fell into the pelvis mass of flesh and blood" (Dahl, 2011:66). Another example of exaggeration is when he describes the Boazers of Repton as people who "had the power of life". and death” upon them (Dahl, 2011:144). Here the reader gets to see some scary parts of Dahl's life but can still enjoy the book because he makes it so entertaining. Another incident in Boy that was funny was the mouse incident and Mrs Pratchett was obviously something Dahl would never forget as a child. Although it was a truly amusing and amusing incident, it allowed him to be beaten so badly by Mr Coombes that his mother took him out of Llandaff Cathedral School. sent it to a committee… halfway through the paper… in 2013. StudyMode Georges Marvelous Medicine Essay [Available online: http://www.studymode.com/essays/Georges-]. Marvelous-Medicine-Essay-1551506.html [2014, May 19]. One on a Bookcase Roald Dahl Day: Dahl's Favorite Themes 2013. [Online]. Available: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://www.onceuponabookcase.co.uk/2013/09/roald-dahl-day-dahls-favourite-themes.html [2014, May 19].ROALD DAHL'S WRITING STYLE. [Online]. Available: http://whozthat0.tripod.com/style.htm [2014, May 19].Rose96. 2011. Study methods. Boy Roald Dahl [online]. Available: http://www.studymode.com/essays/Boy-Roald-Dahl-671047.html [2014, 19 May].Walliams, D. 2009. THE INDEPENDANT. David Walliams: Roald Dahl and I [Online]. Available: http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/features/david-walliams-roald-dahl-and-me-1814135.html [2014, May 19].