Comparing Lamb To The Slaughter 'And The Tell-Tale Heart'

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Xander Bunderson Mrs. Williams English 8A, Per. 6 1 March 2024 Title According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention in the United States in 2021, there were 26,031 murders (“Assault or Homicide”). These numbers have to do with the murders in the real world and in the story. The two stories are both good, and now we will talk about them. One of them has a cold and frigid end to it while the other has a frightening ending to it. In Edgar Allen Poe’s terrifying short story “The Tell-Tale Heart,” the insane narrator decides to kill the old man because of his eyes. Cuts up the body and hides it. When the cops come, he rips up the floor boards and confesses to the cops. In another story,“Lamb to the Slaughter,” by Roanld Dahl, Pateck …show more content…

Although the two stories have many similarities, the differences between them make the crime in “Lamb to the Slaughter,” worse. Firstly, the two stories have many similarities. The most obvious way they are alike is that they both contain murder. In “The Tell-Tale Heart,” the murderer yells, leaps into the room, drags the old man to the ground and then suffocates him with a mattress (Poe 81). In “Lamb to the Slaughter,” it happens very fast. Mary snaps after her husband suddenly tells her not to make dinner and”... simply [walks] up behind him and without any pause she [swings] the frozen lamb leg high in the fridge air and [brings] it down with all of the mighty force in her body to the back of his head. Dahl. Secondly, the two stories have a lot of things in common. Another thing that the stories have in common is that they both loved the people that they killed. In “The Tell-Tale Heart,” he loved the old man. He hated the eye, so he wanted to take the eye (Poe 82). In the “Lamb to the Slaughter,” she ran forward to kiss him and even after she was hurt she still wanted to make dinner for the old man and still loved him even after what he did (Dahl

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