The Lamb To The Slaughter Analysis
Slayton Blood
Mrs. Briscoe
English 1 Honors
7 september 2017
Title
In the story “The Lamb to the Slaughter” the author wanted to make sure that the reader knew what the violence was and what violent behavior meant. To start off, this story was very violent in my opinion, it had a wife kill her husband with a frozen piece of lamb leg. I think the author of the story was trying to say that betrayal was the reason that she killed her husband.
The first set of betrayal that happened was when the wife Mary was waiting for her husband to come home. When he got home they sat and drank some alcohol, then Mary asked him if he wanted food, but he said no. He started to basically say that he was going to leave her with the six month due baby, that
Mrs. Briscoe
English 1 Honors
7 september 2017
Title
In the story “The Lamb to the Slaughter” the author wanted to make sure that the reader knew what the violence was and what violent behavior meant. To start off, this story was very violent in my opinion, it had a wife kill her husband with a frozen piece of lamb leg. I think the author of the story was trying to say that betrayal was the reason that she killed her husband.
The first set of betrayal that happened was when the wife Mary was waiting for her husband to come home. When he got home they sat and drank some alcohol, then Mary asked him if he wanted food, but he said no. He started to basically say that he was going to leave her with the six month due baby, that