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Similarities that these passages have are. Both passages were a murder story that had to deal with a husband and wive. The setting of the stories was both back in the day around 1920’s in a small town. The titles for both stories helped explain a part of what the story was about. For example, Lamb to the slaughter, it gave away the murder weapon, but also explains the wife and how you would never expect a lamb to kill something because they are such calm animals, and she was a peaceful lady. A jury of our peers, foreshadowed how the people who will be doing the investigating are their close friends. When reading you can clearly tell that both wives killed their husbands. However, they were never found to be the killer the whole time. A big

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