Thursday, December 9, 2010

"Lamb to the Slaughter" Mary's Giggling .

At the end of “Lamb to the Slaughter” by Ronald Dahl, Mary Maloney begins giggling because she lied to the police and said she didn't kill her husband. She was very calm during the whole process of people coming in and investigating, which made her seem like she didn't do it. Mary also served the weapon they were looking for to them as dinner. The police thought the weapon was a big metal item so Mary thought while she had a chance to serve them the lamb for supper. Finally she was giggling because while the police were eating supper one of the investigators said it smelled like the weapon was right beneath their nose. The supper that they were eating was the weapon but it's funny to Mary because they didn't know it was the lamb.

If you were in Mary shoes would you:
Leave him on the floor
Bury his body
Blame it on someone else
Tell them that you did it by accident
Run as soon as the cops got thier
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3 comments:

  1. I really liked your post, good job with the questions at the end.

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  2. That was pretty impressive. Keep up the great work.

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  3. Mary was extremely cunning (she exceeded my expectations). This is my favourite short story.

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