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Lamb To The Slaughter Analysis

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Have you ever heard ‘Lamb To The Slaughter’? Yes, I have also never heard of it as well but i’m sure you’re thinking of a nice, gentle lady, but really that is not how it is. Do you really think she would kill her husband? Yes, me either, until I heard this story. If you like traumatizing stories, Lamb To The Slaughter by: Roald Dahl is perfect for you! Lamb To The Slaughter is about a wife Mary Maloney, who loves her husband very dearly at first, until she unexpectedly kills Patrick, due to him leaving her for unknown reasons at first, Mary was waiting patiently for her husband. Lamb To The Slaughter tells one betrayal. Patrick Maloney’s, unexpected decision to leave his pregnant wife. This violation of the marriage-vow is obviously not …show more content…

One regular, normal evening or so they thought. Their problem is when Patrick arrives home he will not speak for unknown reasons, Mary Maloney starts to get worried about what she thinks she has done wrong. Soon after he gets home she tries fixing him a glass of water, and even his favorite meal, Lamb. When they were suppose to have dinner at a friends and cancelled. Everything begins to change, and Mary comes to the conclusion he is cheating on her, and he does not want to be with her anymore. So, the way she fixes this problem is by getting the lamb out of the freezer and, comes up behind him and knocks him out with the lamb.Her husband, Patrick is very vulnerable after she knocks him out. The blood the surrounded Patrick was very nasty, and unsightly to look at. When that happens she begins to make a plan. By this time she has the police come investigate the house. When, getting herself out of trouble by asking the police if the would like to stay for dinner while the confer about the investigation. Her way of planning to have the police come and investigate was very accurate. Mary had so much serenity about if the police would catch her or not. Mary Maloney was apprehensive about if the police would catch her or

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