The short story Gore by Sarah Ellis compared to, Lamb to the Slaughter by
Roald Dahl is both similar for various reasons. This essay will look over three main ideas of similarities in these two short stories. One of these reasons is the characters from these two stories are reacting spontaneously in a male vs. female conflict. Secondly, the two both solved a problem raised/caused by the opposite gender which in both of these was male antagonists starting the conflict that furthermore leads into the third reason. Lastly, both Mary and Amy have quiet reticent personalities that lead to unexpected actions which shock the audience. These two short stories can be looked at as different from each other but the notable similarities of these characters …show more content…
female conflict. Amy presents this reason by dealing with her gullible twin brother. She reacts spontaneously to her brother taking her book. Her brother takes her book so she decides to warn her brother by telling him “Lucas, if you’re not out there by the time I get back, you’re toast.” (Gore, pg. 5).This implies Amy is intending to do something to Lucas in order for her to get her book back. This can also show some foreshadowing as it hints that she will do something. Lucas proceeds to not give her book back. Amy decides to scare him and make it seem as if someone broke into the house and is attempting murder. Lucas gets scared and at the end when she reveals herself he gives back the book. Secondly is Mary, as this short story makes a male vs. female conflict once her husband, Patrick Maloney tells her bad news and she responds with “It didn't take long, four or five minutes at the most, and she sat very still through it all, watching him with a kind of dazed horror as he went further and further away from her in with each word.” (Lamb to the Slaughter, pg.12)The subtext is the author is trying to point at is, when Patrick was telling her the news, Mary was stunned and sat still as she couldn’t believe what he was saying. It soon becomes revenge once the reader at the end finds out that Mary had actually killed her husband when “and in the other room, Mary Maloney began to giggle” As well Mary Maloney stated “All right, …show more content…
Since Amy is the brains of the siblings that makes the reader to not expect her to do what she did and scare the daylights out of Lucas who is known to be a reckless and tough brother. Amy thinks Lucas surrogates like a “unevolved thugoid” (Gore, pg.4) Mary, at the first couple paragraphs in Lamb to the Slaughter, was trying to avoid being anxious and calmly waiting to see her husband once he got home from a long day of work. That quiet, eager personality portrayed to the audience is astonishing once we find out that her unexpected action was murder. Additionally, the reader is left appall when we realize that Mary was pregnant with a six month baby from the line “Her skin-for this was her sixth month with child…” (Lamb of the Slaughter, pg. 10) The author is adding more stakes into what is coming with the bad news where Mary kills her husband because it gives the audience the romantic love they experience with expecting a six month old baby. These reasons are the evidence for these two girls being quiet but still manage to leave the audience jaw dropped by the unexpected actions and
Roald Dahl is both similar for various reasons. This essay will look over three main ideas of similarities in these two short stories. One of these reasons is the characters from these two stories are reacting spontaneously in a male vs. female conflict. Secondly, the two both solved a problem raised/caused by the opposite gender which in both of these was male antagonists starting the conflict that furthermore leads into the third reason. Lastly, both Mary and Amy have quiet reticent personalities that lead to unexpected actions which shock the audience. These two short stories can be looked at as different from each other but the notable similarities of these characters …show more content…
female conflict. Amy presents this reason by dealing with her gullible twin brother. She reacts spontaneously to her brother taking her book. Her brother takes her book so she decides to warn her brother by telling him “Lucas, if you’re not out there by the time I get back, you’re toast.” (Gore, pg. 5).This implies Amy is intending to do something to Lucas in order for her to get her book back. This can also show some foreshadowing as it hints that she will do something. Lucas proceeds to not give her book back. Amy decides to scare him and make it seem as if someone broke into the house and is attempting murder. Lucas gets scared and at the end when she reveals herself he gives back the book. Secondly is Mary, as this short story makes a male vs. female conflict once her husband, Patrick Maloney tells her bad news and she responds with “It didn't take long, four or five minutes at the most, and she sat very still through it all, watching him with a kind of dazed horror as he went further and further away from her in with each word.” (Lamb to the Slaughter, pg.12)The subtext is the author is trying to point at is, when Patrick was telling her the news, Mary was stunned and sat still as she couldn’t believe what he was saying. It soon becomes revenge once the reader at the end finds out that Mary had actually killed her husband when “and in the other room, Mary Maloney began to giggle” As well Mary Maloney stated “All right, …show more content…
Since Amy is the brains of the siblings that makes the reader to not expect her to do what she did and scare the daylights out of Lucas who is known to be a reckless and tough brother. Amy thinks Lucas surrogates like a “unevolved thugoid” (Gore, pg.4) Mary, at the first couple paragraphs in Lamb to the Slaughter, was trying to avoid being anxious and calmly waiting to see her husband once he got home from a long day of work. That quiet, eager personality portrayed to the audience is astonishing once we find out that her unexpected action was murder. Additionally, the reader is left appall when we realize that Mary was pregnant with a six month baby from the line “Her skin-for this was her sixth month with child…” (Lamb of the Slaughter, pg. 10) The author is adding more stakes into what is coming with the bad news where Mary kills her husband because it gives the audience the romantic love they experience with expecting a six month old baby. These reasons are the evidence for these two girls being quiet but still manage to leave the audience jaw dropped by the unexpected actions and