Comparing Lamb To The Slaughter And Jewelled Mirror

In year 8 English this term, we have been reading and analysing various short stories of which I have thoroughly enjoyed. These stories include ‘Lamb to the Slaughter’ by Roald Dahl, ‘A Daughter’s Story’ by Fatima Moradi, and ‘Jewelled Mirror’ by Izel Öztürk. We investigated and analysed the use of language devices such as metaphors, irony, and personification. We have worked on summarising the stories, the moral/purpose of the story, points of view and the multiple types of first and third person, and the culture of stories and how we can tell where they are based off of language used in the story. My favourite story was ‘Lamb to the Slaughter’ by Roald Dahl, which I will cover in this report in Question Five. This is some of the work we have
Irony is humour where one uses language to express the opposite of its actual meaning, which can often be dark. In ‘Lamb to the Slaughter’, irony is expressed when the police officers and crime scene investigators are all wondering where the murder weapon is and what it is. They stated “It could be right under our noses”, and it actually is since Mary Melony killed Patrick Melony with a leg of lamb, and they were eating it because Mary prepared and served it to them. This makes the story unusually humorous since it is a story about a brutal murder, but the irony creates a humorous plot twist that makes any reader laugh and continue to
In ‘A Daughter’s Story’, it is written in first person protagonist; which is shown in the very first line ‘I was born twice’, it uses the persona of ‘I’, ‘my’, and shows the thoughts of Fatima; the main protagonist. This helps to illustrate to the readers what refugees must go through to be safe from the first country they lived in. Some people believe that their country does not have the capacity to assist so many people, meaning that the rising population will impact the services of the country (i.e. income support, counselling, hospitality, medical, housing, etc.), or some refugees cannot be truly trusted (due to lack of paperwork, unknown background history, etc.), so they deny their application for citizenship, and other people want to help the refugees and believe that they all should be accepted, but they have no authority to do so. Government representatives screen and process many applications but approve only a few, this means refugees have to go through an extended process of interviews and staying in detention centres before their application for citizenship are assessed. After reading the stories in ‘Paper Boats’, and my previous knowledge, I believe that the refugees are genuinely wanting to escape problems in their old life, and want a better life away from conflict and persecution. I believe refugees should be allowed into a country without all of the stress that previous refugees