Compare And Contrast Penny In The Dust And Lamb To The Slaughter

When you think of a story you think of the ending, maybe a happy ending, maybe a sad ending. But in all story’s, it must come to an end. In Penny in the dust by Ernest Buckler, and Lamb to the Slaughter by Roald Dahl , the endings are very different. In Penny in the Dust a boy named Dan, his father gives him a penny which was very special to the boy but he loses it, then the father looks for it and finds it. The boy explains he was make believing that they got their automobile that they had dreamed for, the father kept that penny to remember that memory. In Lamb to the Slaughter a man confesses that he has had an affair to his 6 month pregnant wife. The wife then proceeds to go down stairs to get a leg of lamb and hits him in the back of the head killing him. She covers her tracks before the she calls the cops, they couldn’t find the murder weapon because it is the leg of lamb which is in the oven cooking. They then eat the lamb, which is the murder weapon. The wife gets away with the murder due to the cops eating the murder weapon. There are many differences and similarities in these two
They both have negative and darkening moments. In Penny in the Dust when Danny loses his penny, he feels like he lost the key to the world. He lost his penny that his father had given him, he had cherished that penny. Then Danny was playing in dirt and lost it. That represents the dark moment in Penny in the Dust. The dark moment in Lamb to the Slaughter is when she kills her husband. After he had told her he had had an affair while she was pregnant. She loved her husband to death and treated him like a king. She just snapped, after she heard her husband say he had cheated, she went downstairs to the freezer, pulled out a piece of meat and whacked him on the back of the head; killing him instantly. In both stories the dark times are very visible. Despite the fact that there are similarities, the stories come with