My Brother's Wedding: Lamb and Rice

After Mary denies their speculations, they retreat into the kitchen. While inspecting the lamb leg still in the oven, Mary sees them and decides to serve them a warm meal of the lamb for dinner. The police eat the lamb happily, while Mary observes as she was not hungry. As she watches, she can’t avoid giggling, as she has not been framed for the murder and did not have to divorce Patrick. All the while, the weapon was “right under their noses”, as speculated by an officer himself.

In the short story Lamb to the Slaughter by Roald Dahl the husband that comes home early one day with bad news. He told his pregnant wife something. It was really shocking to her, and in the story it said that she got really sad. He then says that he would give her money and see that she is looked after. When she heard the news she went downstairs to the basement and got a frozen lamb to cook him. When she came up, he heard her and could tell that she wanted to make him supper. So he told her that he was going out so she doesn’t have to make it, but he said it in quite a rude manner and she seemed bothered by this because right after he said that she hit him in the head with the frozen lamb and he died. After she seen what she has done,

I shit on it.” But the reality was that deep down she was lying to herself. Nevertheless, she missed all of that -- the smells of lamb pörkölt (stewed and flavored with paprika) and stuffed cabbage. And just to have one more taste of sweetened porridge and rice, or those butter-creamed flaky tortes that had once graced her lips, at weddings. She certainly had never learned to cook well enough to prepare those things, with her mother passing away before teaching Ava to cook. There hadn’t been time to learn what village women taught their daughters. Not when her mother had been wracked with pain and worry.

It was delicious, each bite bursting with flavor. We all gave thanks as a family, and we were all thankful for each other. Everyone had fun, laughing and sharing memories of the past.

“Lamb to the Slaughter” is told with details that Dahl chose and put around into patterns to cause the reader to go above and beyond to find the meanings in the story. A point is made to is made to Mary’s large, dark eyes in the story, sensing her calm personality; they are pointed towards again when she has Patrick’s friends to eat the leg of lamb, revealing this time how sneaky Mary is. Police don’t suspect Mary of anything because she has made up a solid alibi. Dahl’s usage of irony is quite funny. The police officers eat the leg of lamb and discuss trying to find the weapon used to kill Patrick. The officers’ believed that as soon as they finish eating they will be able to find the weapon. The story makes sense a world that is orderly,

Prompt: 1975 Lagerkvist The Marriage Feast: Define and discuss the subject of the story. Direct your remarks to the significance of the events described.

In the story and film” The Lamb to the Slaughter,” Patrick, the husband, was coming home to his wife, Mary. As soon as he gets home and gets him a drink, he tells her he is gonna leave her, but she just loved him too much for him to go. So she killed him with their “supper” which was a leg of lamb. In these two stories there are some differences and alikes between the settings, characters, plot, and resolution.

It was Thanksgiving again, which meant that my family was making the long trek eastward to be around my siblings and their families back at the Old Home Place. We had gathered each of the past years since our father had passed away, but this was the first year that my mother, the last of that generation, was no longer around. My brothers and sister and I all lead very different lives, and were scattered about the country with our own families and jobs to keep us apart; this was one of the only times when we were all a big happy family again.

In “Lambs to the Slaughter,” Roald Dahl uses dramatic irony to build suspense and create tension. In this short story, a woman named Mary Maloney waits for her husband to come home. When he comes home, he is unhappy, and tells her something shocking, to a point where she wants to “reject it all.” She returns to him and swings “the big frozen leg of lamb high in the air and [brings] it down as hard as she [can] on the back of his head.” This kills him, and she decides to telephone the police, putting the murder weapon, the leg of lamb, in the oven. After the police arrive, they begin “looking for the murder weapon.” Mrs. Maloney offers them the leg of lamb, and they eat it while discussing how to find the murder

My family and I drive from Brownstown to Rochester, to eat at my aunt’s house. We are supposed to arrive at three o’clock, but due to my mom’s inability to be on time, we are usually forty-five minutes late. When I step into the front door to my aunt’s house, my mouth begins to water. I can smell the strong aromas coming from the kitchen. I am then greeted at the door by the two small dogs yapping hello to me. I take off my shoes and proceed to the living room to say hello to the rest of the family. We then talk for awhile while my uncle finishes up the turkey. When the turkey is done we all rush to the counter to get the first plate. Turkey, mashed potatoes, sweet potatoes, stuffing, green beans, sausage, rolls, it is all there, waiting for us to devour it. Once the rush is over and everyone is seated at the table, we bow our heads and thank God for the wonderful food we have been blessed with. After we have all eaten and the family is done pounding me with questions regarding my future, my cousins, siblings, and I all clean off the table and wash the dishes. Once the dishes are done and our stomachs are stuffed, we pack up some of the left overs and head back

After almost 30 full minutes of talking, I could hear all of my guests’ stomachs growling Thank the heavens, the food came. Everyone seemed to be enjoying the food, especially Marie and

 “Darling,” she said, “If you’re too tired to eat out tonight, as we had planned, I can fix you something.  There’s plenty of meat and stuff in the freezer.” (1)   All the while Mary was secretly hoping for some slight sign of acceptance or recognition of her efforts.  Feeling his distance in behavior,  Mary becomes uneasy, frightened, and puzzled as her husband declines the supper of lamb she offers and frustratingly tells her to “forget it” (1).

I come from a big family with many loving aunts, uncles, cousins, and grandparents. As I was standing there all alone I thought back to the time when I got to spend a week with Fran. Almost a year ago to the date, most of the family was together for my other uncle's wedding. All the cousins sat at the same table and we had such a good time together. He was a busy person, he

Mary Maloney suddenly changes from a loving housewife into a “Neanderthal” swinging the leg of the lamb as it were a caveman’s club (Bertonneau). It is ironic how the meal becomes the weapon of choice for the gruesome murder. What tickles my mind is that the leg of lamb is frozen and Mrs. Mary Maloney intends to use it for supper; usually frozen meat take a couple hours to heat up rather than the lamb chops she originally thinks about in the beginning.

As the end of the night approached us, I couldn’t stop thinking about how many mixed emotions I had about starting a whole new chapter in my life. I couldn't wait to go to college, meet all new people, get a degree so that I could start my career path, but I knew that meant I had to say goodbye to my two best friends, who were moving several hours away from me. This was one of the hardest things I had ever had to do in my life. We all cried a little, and then made promises to keep in touch, and then we were off into the real world! I was very happy to be at this point in my life, but I was scared deep down inside.