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The author did a “so so” job at revealing the theme (Don’t be selfish!) through the use of irony, mood and foreshadowing. Mary Maloney feels angry in some parts of the story. This reminds me of when I ask my friend to come out with me and I told him that we will meet at Fairview (the mall) at 1 o’clock, but he was late by a few minutes, so I got a bit angry because he was late when a girl was waiting for a while. No one likes when people are late when they need to meet someone. In the story, Mary got angry when Patrick told her that he will leave her or get divorced, so she went and get the leg lamb from the freezer to kill him. It’s the same because we had the feeling of angry and frustrated because I got a bit angry when my friend came late and Mary angry when he said that they will be separated when she …show more content…

He will bite them really deeply until they die. When Damon gets angry, he could also go flip innocent people’s neck, so that they're dead. He also gets angry because of his relationship with Elena. Elena from the beginning, she liked Stefan, but then later in the show, she likes Damon, so that's why Damon get angry. In the story Lamb to the Slaughter Patrick gets angry when she always asks him if he wants to eat supper because she knows that he didn’t get to eat supper before going home. There is a point where he paused and said to her that he needs to tell her something. When he finishes talking, she started to get angry and she was thinking of killing. It is the same because how they act like Damon uses his “magic” hands to kill innocent people when he's feeling comes up and Mary uses the lamb to kill her husband, but the result is the same is that they are both dead. This reminds me of a news that happened in Downtown, Montreal. There were two men that murdered a 26 year old man named Charles Robitallie at the Montreal

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