Analysis Of The Listen By Mary Mahlink By Dahl

When she enters the bedroom, her voice changes from present to past tense and she starts to reminisce and begins to talk about her mother and aunts. She seems happy to remember her mother’s room and introduces her aunts to the audiences. Mary delivers her dialogue saying that the dressing table and the small elephant statue figures are all same. When Mary gently touches her mother’s photo, she delivers a sad tone. Her performance conveys to the audiences that she misses her mother. The tone of her voice represents that she is a gentle, innocent and a loving child. Her verbal and non-verbal interactions conveyed the viewers with a message that she is an orphan.

Mary has three distinct personalities throughout the story. In the beginning of the short story, “Lamb to the Slaughter” she seems like a devoted wife to her husband, Patrick. For instance, “The room was warm and clean, the curtains drawn, the two table lamps alight-hers and the one by the empty chair opposite. On the

The book Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson, is about a teenage girl who stops talking after she gets raped. The title of the book is ironically based on the fact that Melinda, the protagonist, chooses not to speak again after the incident. During the end of the summer party, Melinda calls the cops on her friends causing her to avoid interactions with society. Her peers and friends begin to hate her, yet nobody once asks her why she did what she did. The reasoning for her action is that she was being raped. The tragic events changed once happy and enthusiastic girl into a depressed and introverted girl while being a dreadful student at a school. The main character Melinda gradually begins to portray signs of recovery and strength through her

Mary taking the leg of lamb from the freezer downstairs and walking with it to the living room indicates the end of the rising action of the story, or the start of the climax. All of this builds up to the point of Mary killing her husband.

At the beginning of the story, Mary Maloney loves and adores her husband, this does not last very long. Dahl uses simple but strong sentences to portray the killing of Patrick Maloney “At the point, Mary Maloney simply walked up behind him and without any pause she swung the big frozen leg of lamb high in the air and brought it down as hard as she could on the back of his head.” This illustrates Mrs. Maloney walking without any hesitation, killing her beloved husband and this also exemplifies the ultimate transformation of Mrs. Maloney from her calm behavior to being over dramatic. Another detail that this phrase demonstrates is that Patrick is so focused in his thoughts that he doesn’t sense his wife walking up towards him. Dahl reveals this unexpected transformation of Mary Maloney through her actions and thoughts. Another phrase that exemplifies Mrs. Maloney’s change in character is when she thinks to herself, after killing Patrick, “‘All right,’ she told herself. ‘So I’ve killed him.’” This illustrates Mrs. Maloney’s impeccable life, or what she conceives to be her life is demolished. At this point of the story, Dahl uses direct and indirect sentences to develop the protagonist and to show the complete transformation of Mrs. Maloney and brings her to

As the first paragraph is introduced, Roald Dahl develops an image of Mrs. Patrick Maloney as an idle housewife. Description of the living room reflects

Throughout the entire story, Mary is a very interesting character. She faces many issues in dealing with her husband’s news that he is leaving her. She reacts based on her instincts and kills her husband and this shows her cold heartedness. In the end she has to create an alibi to cover up her devious crime in which she has to manipulate the police into eating the evidence. Mary is a very unique complex character and she has, through her actions conducted a devious crime in which she will be proven innocent. Through the use of Many Maloney’s character, as well as irony and suspense, the author was able to maintained the interest of the reader throughout the entire short story.

The text describes Lizbeth’s mother’s voice “like a cool, dark room in summer--peaceful, soothing, quiet.” The simile used here emphasizes that wherever Lizbeth’s mother is, everything seems right in the world and any wrong could be made right. However, her father’s voice is described in a very different way- “... my father’s voice cut through hers, shattering the peace.” There is personification used here, but more importantly, it adds to the simile used before (Lizbeth’s mother’s voice). In other words, the peace caused by Lizbeth’s mother’s voice is disrupted by her father, and the peace is not restored as it normally would be. This shows the true despair they are going through. The figurative language emphasizes the abnormal things going on. For example, “My mother, who was small and soft, was now the strength of the family; my father, who was the rock on which the family had been built, was sobbing like the tiniest child.” The metaphor that describes her mother as small and soft and the simile that compares her father to the tiniest child, show the major differences that have taken place and the changes that will continue to

The author made Mary suicidal, she wants to give up, yet she doesn’t. Throughout the night, Mary’s voice has become full of hatred; hatred towards God, towards the people who hung her. She is full of anger to them. At the end of the poem, day has come and when they go to retrieve her body, they find that she is still

In the end of the story Mary reunites with her friends that her husband wasn't necessarily fond of. With the door open to do whatever she pleased she decided to take part in her old ways and gets drunk with her girls that night. She saw this as an opportunity to have the fun she's incapable of having when her husband is around. In getting drunk Mary was pursuing the happiness she once had, outside of her marriage. All of the joy she had at those social gatherings were long gone but she wanted to just for once to relive

This is where the reader knows more then the characters, having seen the murder from Mary’s point of view and now watching the police officers discuss the crime. Also ironic, is that the police officers are doing Mary a huge favour by eating the evidence, making her practically undiscoverable. What is also special about the story, is that in the very beginning, Mary Maloney is described as a weak woman, only devoted to her husband and submissively in love with him. The reader is completely shocked when she murders her husband.

Role, Character and Relationships In this excerpt, the audience is intoduced to two roles and characters: Mary Lennox who embodies the little girl role and whose character is innocent, naive and curious, and Mrs Medlock who fulfils the housekeeper role and is a strict, harsh and controlling in character. Mary is the protagonist and is troubled by her innate desire and curiosity to discover the truth surrounding her life. In this clip, we see her inspect her Aunts room; picking up the trinkets on her dressing table and rummaging through her drawers, in search for more information about her family. Mary constantly has an unhappy facial expression which connotes with her isolation and loneliness.

In the scene Mo’Nique shows the insecurity and vulnerability which helps the viewer to understand her malicious attitude towards Precious. Mo'Nique's delivery makes the viewer horrified from the abuse Mary herself went through but also from her description of what she allowed to happen to

Lucy’s experience in the United States is dissatisfactory from the moment of her arrival onwards. She describes her first night as “gray-black and cold” and notes that no one told her January would be cold (Kincaid 3-5). This comment marks the intensity of Lucy’s transition. And Coldest, too, opens with an unforgiving winter. The first lines, “cold, and coldest,” reflect not only the season but Lucy’s experience of it - she has never experienced a night so cold. The unfamiliar season

Mary deals with the sense of displacement because of the absence of a stable home. Since her husband, James, was an actor, the family would have to move around depending on his schedule. Leaving Mary and her children on cheap hotel room. Mary was not a fan of this, she never had a place to call home. She fondly remembers her ideal childhood home, and contrasts it with her present dwelling.