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Firstly, the central conflict in each work is murder; they both revolve around the main characters’ plans and actions of this terrible crime. Both stories share the same plot ideal, but differ in murder execution and justification. In “The Tell-Tale Heart”, the narrator murders his victim, possibly a family member of his, because he could not stand to look at his eye anymore. He recites, “I made up my mind to take the life of the old man, and thus rid myself of the eye forever” (331). One pale eye, with a film over it that resembled a vulture, influenced the murder of the old man. The execution occurred when the narrator, “Dragged him to the floor, and pulled the heavy bed over him” (333). The narrator smothered the old man until he suffocated and died. However, in “The Cask of Amontillado”, the narrator, Montressor, desires to kill his friend, Fortunato, because he insulted his family’s honor, and he wanted revenge. Montressor utters, “When he ventured upon insult I vowed revenge” (190). His murder was executed by trapping his victim in a walled-up enclosure, in the deep vaults of a remote crypt on his property. Montressor explains “With these materials (building stone and mortar) and with the aid of my trowel, I began vigorously to wall up the entrance of the niche” (193). Both narrators committed cruel, unnecessary murders, and they could be considered psychotic.

In Roald Dahl’s short story “Lamb to the Slaughter” , Mary Maloney murders her husband, a detective, after he declares that he is leaving her. Mary then has to cover her tracks or else she and her unborn child will be killed. Throughout the story, Mary’s character changes from loving wife to cold killer and back again based on her situation.

Lamb to the Slaughter, written by Roald Dahl is a short story which explores certain issues within society which were initiated during the 1950s and are still present today. The themes of stereotypical gender roles, betrayal and destroyed innocence are all common within the story as well as society. These issues were enhanced through the techniques of dialogue, foreshadowing and symbolism/metaphors. Lamb to the Slaughter is a short story which explores common societal issues that were present during the 1950s and are still found in today’s culture.

The quote “Tears come from the heart and not from the brain” by Leonardo da Vinci is highly relevant to the climax of “Lamb to the Slaughter” by Roald Dahl, because it provides a reason for why Mary kills her beloved husband. This quote explains how when Mary kills her husband, that it was her heart speaking and not her head. The images on my poster show the calm before the storm, Mary walking up the stairs with the soon to be murder weapon. Both of these points relate to the climax of the short story.

The perspective of the two stories allow the reader to perceive the sense of proximity the protagonist has with their victim.

I know you've thought about killing someone, but you're too worried about the consequences. In the short story "Cask of Amontillado" The protagonist, Montresor feels hatred toward this man Fortunato and is determined to get revenge with impunity. In "Lamb to the slaughter" a wife unsure of her feelings murders her husband. The stories are similar because the authors both create a effect of suspense while they use different types of irony and conflicts.

Both stories move with small twists throughout, and lead up to an ironic, and arguably comical, conclusion. The two stories are gut wrenchingly suspenseful at some times, from escaping a serial killer deep in a foreboding jungle; “Rainsford had fought his way through the bush for two hours. ‘I must keep my nerve. I must keep my nerve,’ he said through tight teeth.” (Connell, 3) to watching a pack of dangerous wolves grow ever closer to the men they intend to kill, “’Who are they?’ asked Georg quickly, straining his eyes to see what the other would gladly not have seen. ‘Wolves’” (Saki, 6- 7) The type of story put in the two writings are, while fictional, still near to the real world, labeling both stories Realistic-Fiction, a story format used frequently by Saki throughout his

Ladies and Gentlemen of the jury may I present to you my client Mrs.Maloney. My client is not guilty of murder due to temporary insanity and I will prove this throughout my argument.

I think for each story, the focus for the author was the main character’s plight, and their character change. In “A Good Man is Hard to Find”, the story is centered around an aged woman with a son named Bailey, a few grandchildren, and a secretly kept kitten named Pitty Sing. The story begins and ends with the grandmother, significantly focused on her actions, desires, and memories. Similarly in “The Necklace” a contrast can be made. The story began with Mathilde’s despair and longing for a life unlike her own.

All three stories have a depressing part when Torm dies, when the washwoman never returns, and when the man who helps dies. The stories were also heart touching on how Gwilan still had her voice. They were touching when the washwoman still visited her son. One of the most important part of the story The Last Leaf the man would sacrifice himself to save the girl. Each story also had a lesson do not hold onto the past, do not over work yourself, and do not give up on life. These stories stuck out to me I loved the sacrifice and the

“Lamb to Slaughter” vs “Storyteller” In the “Lamb to Slaughter”, Dahl portrays the theme that sometimes the people you love can end up hurting you both emotionally and physically. Mr. Maloney decides he wants to leave his wife and she does not take this information well because this emotionally hurts her feelings. She had so much love towards him and the negative information he shares with her causes her to act out and hurt him. Dahl says, “ 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. She might have as well hit him with a steel bar (Roald Dahl 2)”.

It is a tale of a girl who is hiding something within her, a boy who has secrets of his owns, and four sisters who would stoop so low to make their town worship them. And, it's also a story of cultural belonging and gender identity as much as a love story.

The first story was a music video that had a symbolic meaning. A summary of the video was a man who was in surgery and then awoke and realized what was happening and wanted to get away and never got to because the people were holding him back. Then, he is shown in a casket-like box to make it look like the people killed him. The symbolic meaning to this story is that he is in some type of relationship that he really wants to get out of because he thinks it is hurting him but the other people are holding him back causing him suffering. The casket-like box and him in it was symbolizing that he thinks this relationship is so harmful it may kill him. The purpose of this story was to inform someone that he is in a relationship with that he thinks

Both stories were very “unrealistic” but I found them interesting and enjoyed reading them for the most part. Due to them not being realistic they both kept my attention. Le Guin story was not how I would image the outcome. Reading the story at first I thought it was going to just be a boring story of how everyone was so happy. I did not suspect that it was for a reason they were all happy. Learning about the boy who suffers just so everyone else

Writers and authors for centuries have used different strategies to compare living things with one another, as well as non-living things with one another. During the Romantics era, it was a time during economic destruction. People had little hope and writers and poets began to express their emotions as well as critiques on this time period. William Blake was a poet as well as a painter, who wrote works that addressed the social issues around the area in which he lived. The country dealt with several deaths, which caused the nation to go under depression. Furthermore, the essay, Blake's 'Self-annihilation': Aspects of Its Function in the Songs, with a Glance at Its History, by Harold C. Pagliaro, a professor as well as book writer, informs,