Comparing The Lottery 'And Lamb To The Slaughter'

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I’m doing my essay on the story Tale Tell Heart. Tale Tell Heart is actually kind of the same to The Chaser, The Lottery, and Lamb to the Slaughter. For one, they all have murder in them. Well except for the Chaser, but if the story kept going on, it would have it in there. In Lamb to the Slaughter, someone gets slaughtered with a lamb leg. In the Lottery someone gets stoned to death. In the Chaser the guy is probably going to kill the women because she’s too annoying. Last how does Tale Tell Heart relate to murder? Well the guy kills the old man because of his eye, so that’s murder too, whether the narrator thinks so or not. The narrator was very unlike the old man. For one the narrator is young and the

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