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Roald Dahl

Lamb

to the

Slaughter

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About the author

-Roald Dahl-

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Roald Dahl was born on September 13, 1916. Dahl died November 23, 1990.

Throughout his career, he wrote exactly 49 books, many are screenplays and

musicals. He has many grandchildren and children. Before his writing career,

Dahl was a fighter pilot in World War ll, he also at age 17 worked for the Sheil

Oil company. He then decided to write, he would write for four hours every day. Roald

Dahl was one of the most classic writers in American history.

Roald Dahl 1916-1990

Lamb to the Slaughter

-Summary-

Taking place in the early 1950s, Mary Maloney waits for her husband

as he gets home from work. He tells her some shocking news,

she's not happy let's just say. In fact, she's so angry she kills him, the police ​don't even suspect her because she's a woman and back then women didn't kill people, ​what did he tell her?

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-Mary Maloney-

Traits (in the beginning)

Traits (in the end)

  • Sweet
  • Loving
  • Kind
  • Hostable
  • Welcoming
  • Liar
  • Evil
  • Murder
  • Shocked

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Conflict/Climax

The climax and rising point of this story are first when ​Mary's husband tells her the news, which we don't know ​what this news is, however many suspect that he'd ​cheated on

her. She leaves the room and gets a frozen lamb leg she ​kills him. She is in a little

bit of shock and goes to the store and tells the worker ​there that her husband didn't wanna go out, she had ​literally just killed him. She'd officially gone mental and ​psycho.

Literary Devices

Literary devices are pieces of figurative language. ​There is quite a bit of figurative language.

in 'The Lamb to the Slaughter.' One of the most ​ironic things that happen in this story is after

the police sit down for supper just after Mary killed ​her husband, she fed them the weapon,

the lamb leg. She also treated them to whiskey, ​and on the job with a drink, they won't think

very well, she knew that. Another ironic thing that ​happens is when she got home from the

grocery store when she saw his dead body once ​again, she acted surprised as if she knew

nothing about her husband's death; her doing.


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Informational ​websites/videos

https://en.wikipedia.org/wik​i/Lamb_to_the_Slaughter


https://www.classicshorts.c​om/stories/lamb.html


https://www.youtube.com/​watch?v=xFrFWsSuSUM




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