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    Love can be as strong as tidewater‚ however‚ sometimes it becomes a huge net and traps you tightly. In Lamb to the Slaughter‚ by Roald Dahl‚ drastic desire to monopolize is hidden behind the gentle love. Mary‚ the housewife‚ finally punishes Patrick as the one who wants to escape from her obsessed love. Roald Dahl illustrates that love can be a sweet excuse for control‚ this story portrays a twisted love. People consider Mary as a lonely and helpless housewife who spends her life serving her

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    Lamb to the Slaughter Literary Analysis Roald Dahl’s Lamb to the Slaughter is the story of a loyal’s wife reaction to her husband’s betrayal‚ using the rhetorical devices of dramatic irony‚ dark humor and foreshadowing. Throughout‚ the story you follow an abnormal day in Mary Maloney very wonted life. She makes the day abnormal by murdering her husband and shrewdly covers it up‚ without leaving a trace of evidence. The first rhetorical device encountered is foreshadowing‚ and foreshadowing is

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    Have you ever hit a vulnerable animal with your car? If so‚ watch out in the story Lamb to the Slaughter because the animal is the killer. Lamb to the Slaughter is a short story by Roald Dahl. Lamb to the Slaughter is fiction and the theme is betrayal. The setting in Lamb to the Slaughter is around the 1950’s in the afternoon. The location is in the man’s house after he comes home from work. The house has a cozy‚ serene‚ and warm feeling. The characters in Lamb to the Slaughter are the police

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    Roald Dahl’s retelling of a classic fairy tale begins rather unexpectedly. The classic fairy tale spends the first few sentences describing Little Red Riding Hood as a beautiful‚ charming girl with her signature red cloak. Taking on a different strategy‚ Dahl switches the lens to follow the Wolf at the beginning of his narrative. Rather than the wolf be the ominous threat that the reader is waiting for‚ Dahl’s version has readers actively waiting for the arrival of Little Red Riding Hood‚ the first

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    author n. (ôth-au-r) - One who practices writing as a profession. 15 years is a long time and especially so for one who has not lived that long yet. Today teens like me are expected to know what they want do later in life. Maybe if it were not the twenty first century I could be imaginative but that would be childish (In case you didn’t know this is a CHILDRENS essay competition). However after a decade and a half I would like to be in a profession that is considered neither here nor there in terms

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    SHORT STORIES The runaway Author: Morley Callaghan (male) *was born in 1903 *Canadian writer. *Studied at the University of Toronto *Started to write in 1929. * Their novels and short stories are marked by undertones of Roman Catholicism‚ often focusing on individuals whose essential characteristic is a strong but weakened sense of self. -Another short stories he wrote: Morley Callagham Stories and Lost and Found Stories. PLOT Is a story of a boy called Michael ‚ whose life is

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    often than not in more ways than one‚ people deny the existence of death itself or deny their part in a death. The latter type of denial occurs in the short story Along the Frontage Road by Michael Chabon. Denial also appears in Lamb to Slaughter by Roald Dahl and The Terrapin by Patricia Highsmith. All of these stories use physical death as a way to expose an internal death caused by a character’s experience with the Freudian concept of denial. In The Frontage Road‚ the death of an unborn child illuminates

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    CESAR BUITRAGO BEWARE OF THE DOG ANALYSIS Beware of the Dog is a 1944 World War II story by Roald Dahl. It is about Peter Williamson‚ a Spitfire pilot‚ who is flying home injured after a dogfight when he begins to feel light-headed‚ decides to bail out of his plane over the English Channel. He then wakes up in hospital; his injuries are treated‚ and he is told he is in Brighton. However‚ he soon begins to notice that the hospital is not quite as it should be. The water is hard‚ and he remembers

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    Have you ever made a bet? Did you ever have a bet that involved cutting off your pinky? In the short story “Man From The South” by Roald Dahl‚ there is an old man that makes a bet with a boy in his younger twenty’s. If the kids lighter can light 10 times in a row‚ he gets a Cadillac‚ if it does not light 10 times in a row he loses his pinky. The theme for this book is to be careful with what you bet‚ because it can cost you something very precious. In the beginning‚ when the old man first offered

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    from the apprehension women have encountered with men in the institution of marriage. Although portrayed differently‚ marriage is perceived as a constraint to the protagonists. This has been presented very well in “The Way Up To Heaven” penned by Roald Dahl who blatantly critiques the accepted societal roles of women in the mid-twentieth century and “The Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin who highlights a woman’s plight in the 19th century. This is not only painted through the events of the stories‚

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