James Vance Marshall based his novel walkabout on this.In this novel

Pious Mary, Regal Mary, Pretty Mary, and Jolly Mary are all companions of Nicola’s and Queen Mary’s friends from Scotland. Davie is the disfigured man and Nicola’s friend. .It is set in the mid 1500s in France and Scotland. It is centered around the end of the Auld Alliance. Nicola’s want changes through the story.

The text suggest Mary was r**** by Mr Neal just as one of her friends were...

As Mary’s story unravels, she continues to suffer long hours of work, starvation, and separation from her family. She reads her holy bible and is constantly reminding herself that God is with her and will see her through these trials. Her spirits are lifted her master agrees to sell Mary to her husband, and her mistress begins the journey with her, but before long the mistress decides not to go any further and they turn back. Not long after, she starts to loose hope that she will ever be reunited with her family. She becomes discouraged, and her spirit

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

Mary indicates that things were fine and that they didn’t have any problems in the family until John returned

The way that Mary Anne portrays herself as she comes to see her boyfriend Mark Fossie and the rest of the crew is on page 89 when “ The way Rat told it, she came in by helicopter along with

¨Dad however, wouldn’t talk about Mary Charlene...He was the one who found her body in the crib, and Mom, couldn't believe how much it shook him up…‘he was in shock or something, cradling her stiff little body in his arms... he screamed like a wounded animal’...He started having dark moods,staying out late and coming home drunk and losing jobs,¨(Walls 28).

and then she never came back - That's how the man got the boy. The man doesn't know

Her son showed up shortly after and they were able to be together again and comfort each other (76). On page 78 God gives Mary comfort through a passage she finds in the book of Jeremiah in the bible. Later, she described herself as blessed because she was the only Christian captive left in the tribe (80). She continued to rejoice at every opportunity she was given and on page 84, while going to visit her son, she gets lost in the woods. Even though she could not find him, she still praised God for keeping her

Mary was a horrible role model for her two children.She had two sons whose names were Tony and Wes Moore.She partied instead of parenting her children, along with “hiding ” Marijuana in her family's home.On page twenty Mary blatantly lied to her own child’s face.She looked At Wes and said, “Mommy got some bad news about school, and I want to go see some friends

him he was tired. She then asked him if he wanted supper but he said

First, Twyla introduces Mary from the beginning of the story, as her mother claiming that she was put in St. Bonny’s, because mother have been all night dancing. Twyla reveals that she

calls him a coward and tells him that his love is worth nothing to her

wife, while her husband was away, and suddenly he caught hold of her and said,

In the play, Mary is a beautiful woman and lives the life like any other girls of her time; but she is emotionally attached to her sons and her family when she marries into the Tyrone family. She is also getting old, so she keeps going on her days worrying about her change of appearance. She suffers from a morphine addiction and she is psychologically wounded because of her past. She tries many times to break free but she could not stop as she spends time with her family. She has gone through many struggles but she cannot move on with her life. She keeps looking back into the past; and she regrets marrying into the family because of the dreams she had to sacrifice such as becoming a nun or a concert pianist.