Assigned Reading Lamb to the Slaughter
1. Identify and briefly define important words, terms, concepts, or characters.
Mary Maloney—the wife, the murderer
Patrick Maloney--Mary Maloney’s husband, a policeman, was killed by his wife.
A leg of lamb—the tool for killing the husband, finally was eaten by policemen
2. Summarize the main idea, theme, action, or event of the reading. Be sure to include quotation that best captures the overall feeling or mood of the reading.
The wife waited her husband for a long time. After the husband getting home early in the morning, he felt tired and insisted not eat any food. And he wanted to end up their marriage and said “I’ll give you money and see you’re looked after.” The wife was shocked a lot. And she used the iced lame leg to kill the husband. She didn’t want to be in prison because she was pregnant. So she pretended to be normal and went to a grocery to buy something for her husband. After getting home she called the police. There was no development in the investigation. Nobody could find the weapon. At last, the wife treated the lamb leg to several policemen and because of this, the policemen realized that the leg lamb should be the weapon.
3. Formulate a question for discussion. The question should be relatively substantial, based upon a specified passage or scene from the text, and capable of sustaining a thoughtful discussion.
What method does the author use to make this story horrible?
The last sentence, “and in the other room, Mary Maloney began to giggle”. Why did she giggle when she realized that the policemen had found the weapon?
What the meaning of the title “Lamb to the Slaughter”?
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4 comments:
This is one of my favorite readings from the assignments so far. It was strange that Maloney giggled because she had no feeling towards killing her husband.
-Jessica Sheets
Very interesting reading... i enjoyed reading the blog resposnse.
Artem Yusupov
The title is very representative of the story and straight to the point. The lamb however was 'slaughtered' in two ways. 1) to kill the husband, 2) It itself was 'slaughtered' by the policemen who ate it and to destroying it's possibility as evidence. This is perhaps what she found so very funny that caused her to giggle.
This story has a great twist to it. In the beginning of the story, the wife seems so innocent and only purpose is to serve her husband. Though, a few words from her husband makes her go crazy, to the extend to killing him. I like the way how the policemen are eating the very same leg of lamb that was used to commit the murder. Great story.
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