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    Essay The Scarlet Ibis Introduction One of the saddest and the most beautiful stories that I’ve ever read is The Scarlet Ibis. It is so sad and so beautiful at the same time it makes you want to put the book down and never pick it up again but you can’t because it is so beautiful and touching and it relates to how so many people feel‚ when they are embarrassed or lose a loved one. The author James Hurst‚ who grew up in North Carolina‚ where the story takes

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    The short stories The Landlady and Lamb To The Slaughter were not scary because the stories were predictable‚ not that thrilling‚ and the plots were short and slightly dull. The two short stories were not scary because the plots turned out to be cliche`. Most horror stories include some sort of weird or crazy person who has a victim that is usually clueless. For example‚ in The Landlady‚ Billy noticed some of the strange characteristics of the old woman‚ but he didn’t know what she had in store and

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    Lenora Rayford September 14‚ 2013 6th Edmodo Assignment Ms. Guy Lamb to the Slaughter Lamb to the Slaughter uses the different types of irony. There are three main types: Dramatic‚ Situational‚ and Verbal. Dramatic irony is cased when the audience knows something the characters don’t. Situational irony is something no one expects. And Verbal irony is saying something you don’t exactly mean. The first type of irony used is verbal irony. It was used when Mary Maloney stated “Is he dead?” knowing

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    In the short stories The Landlady and Lamb to the Slaughter written by Roald Dahl‚ an important setting is the households. They show us the importance of appearance vs. reality‚ as they show how things can often be different to how they seem‚ and that we can be easily deceived if we are too reliant on looks. This is shown through techniques such as irony‚ listing and adjectives. The Landlady is a story about a young man who believes he has found a safe place to stay‚ when in fact it is one of

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    Theme Essay of Lamb to the Slaughter Roald Dahl’s realistic short story‚ “Lamb to the Slaughter” is about a wife named Mary Maloney‚ who loves her husband very dearly‚ then ultimately kills him due to him requesting a divorce. Roald has cohesively weaved the characters’ actions into the theme of this darkly comical tale. What Mary anticipated to be a tranquil supper with Patrick turns out unexpectedly to be Patrick deceiving her. This abrupt and unforeseen dissolution brought up by whom she’s most

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    from the male investigators which led to Mrs. Wright escaping justice. On the other hand‚ Lamb to the Slaughter is a murder case instinctively executed by Mary Maloney‚ who is the wife to the deceased Patrick Maloney. Although Mary commits the crime after her husband broke the news about the plan to divorce her‚ she immediately comes to her senses after hitting him “as hard as she could” with a frozen leg of a lamb. She successfully lays down a plan to deceive the police that she was

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    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

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    Lamb to the Slaughter- Summary Lamb to the slaughter is a clever tale of a woman’s quick response to a devastating situation‚ in which she was unwillingly placed. Lamb to the slaughter proves that the weak have more power than one may think. It’s a classic ’Mouse and the Lion’ story. The weak seem pathetic‚ but prove very powerful in the end. The short story begins in a very homey situation and Dahl emphasizes the great deal of love and willingness to cater to her husbands every need that Mary

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    The Landlady and Lamb to the Slaughter written by Roald Dahl‚ important characters are the Landlady and Mary Maloney. Both these characters are important as they are not the pleasant personas they appear to be and are in fact ruthless murderers. The Landlady is about an elderly woman who kills her house guest by poisoning them with arsenic and then stuffs their bodies. Lamb to the Slaughter is about a housewife Mary Maloney who kills her husband Patrick Maloney‚ with a leg of lamb‚ after he ends their

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    Betrayal is not a necessary part of life as evidenced in Roald Dahl’s “Lamb to the Slaughter” And Shirley Jackson’s “The lottery”. Lamb to the Slaughter was a story where. Mary Maloney was going to have a son‚ but the husband had to leave because having a family wasn’t going to be good for his job as a detective. Leaving her is an act of betrayal “I know it’s a bad time to be telling you this‚ but there was simply wasn’t any other way. Of course‚ I’ll give you money and see you’re looked after” (Dalh

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