Deze slide heeft geen instructies
Deze slide heeft geen instructies
What tragic news does Patrick give Mary at the beginning of the book?
Deze slide heeft geen instructies
What does Patrick Maloney tell Mary before she kills him?
He does not like her cooking.
That he is not happy with his job.
That he is having an affair.
That he wasn't hungry.
Deze slide heeft geen instructies
Write your impression of Mary Maloney as a wife. Multiple answers are possible.
Deze slide heeft geen instructies
Why does Mary make multiple attempts to get Patrick to eat when he is upset?
Deze slide heeft geen instructies
What is the significance of Patrick's profession and Mary's interaction with the police? (name two reasons)
The police will look for a killer more vigorously if a fellow officer is killed, but also that she knows the officers who will investigate the crime. This means that they are more likely to be comfortable with her.
Also important is the understanding that Mary is likely to have an alibi and spared from being arrested for the crime.
Finally, as the wife of a police detective, Mary has almost certainly heard many stories about crimes that he has solved and how he has done it.
Why does Mary go to the grocery store?
Deze slide heeft geen instructies
Justify the title of the story "Lamb to the Slaughter."
The story's title refers to the widely used phrase "like a lamb to the slaughter", meaning an innocent person being unknowingly led to his or her demise. The expression might be used, for example, when someone is called into a meeting to be fired.
Instead of being innocent, the lamb becomes associated with wrongdoing. As the murder weapon, this lamb is also the only evidence that can prove Mary committed the murder
Who is the protagonist (main character) in "The Lamb to the Slaughter?"
Jack Noonan, the detective
Mary Maloney
Patrick Maloney
Sam, the greengrocer
Deze slide heeft geen instructies
Who is the antagonist in the story?
Mary Maloney
Patrick Maloney
Jack Noonan
the detectives
Deze slide heeft geen instructies
What happens to the murder weapon?
Mary threw it away.
Mary puts it back into the freezer.
Jack Noonan found it under the sofa.
The detectives ate it.
Deze slide heeft geen instructies
Deze slide heeft geen instructies
Who is the dynamic character, why?
Deze slide heeft geen instructies
What are some themes of Lamb to the Slaughter?
Deze slide heeft geen instructies
What is the main message of "Lamb to the slaughter"?
The main message is that appearances can be deceiving. Mary looks like a grieving housewife, but she is in fact a cold-blooded killer. The murder weapon appears to be some heavy tool but is in the fact the main ingredient in the dinner Mary prepared