Killing the Man You Love

Using the story, "Lamb To Slaughter" by Roald Dahl - complete a journal entry. Use the example given in your notes and answer the following questions.Is it a mystery or suspense? When is the suspense introduced?How is it resolved?Did the author include any red herrings?Is the story an example of poetic justice?Due Sunday, December 13th at noon.



Mrs. Maloney is waiting for her husband to come home. She keeps asking him questions and Mr. Moloney is rude to her and doesn't want to answer anything. He doesn't want to hurt her feelings but he wants to divorce her. After that Mrs. Moloney is unhappy and she murders him with the frozen meat. She pretends that he isn't dead and goes to the store to buy some stuff. She wants everyone to think that someone else killed him when she was buying groceries. She can pretend that it happened when she was out. When she got back home she called the police and the police came and she knows them all. She lies to everyone and says that she found him on the floor when she got back from getting groceries. One of the police officers asks Mrs. Maloney about the food in the oven. She offers to feed the policemen because they are so nice to her. She pretend to be so sad and crying. The police don't want to waste the food so they eat the weapon and she has an evil smile.



This story is a suspense. There are no secrets. I know that Mrs. Maloney is the killer.



The suspense is introduced when the police officer asks Mrs. Maloney if she knows that the oven is still on and the meat is still inside. It is the exciting part because the police were all looking for the weapon and the person who killed Mr. Moloney. At this part of the story I think that the police might figure out that Mrs. Maloney used the lamb to kill her husband.

It is resolved when the police eat the leg of lamb. There is no more evidence to find. The police eat it so Mrs. Maloney will not go to jail.

No this is not poetic justice. Mrs. Maloney should go to jail because she killed her husband. If she doesn't go to jail will she kill someone else if they make her mad.

No red herrings were in this story because I know who died and who killed them. The evidence is gone so the police will never find out who killed Mr. Maloney.