Two Needed Posts For Any LA blog (Part 1)

This is one of the posts which I should have done earlier , but my procrastinating attitude made me leave it till now .

Lamb to the Slaughter is a story by Roald Dahl . It is about a man who is killed by his pregnant wife after he tells her some bad news . The story starts with the wife , Mary , waiting for her husband Patrick , a police officer , to come home from work . When he returns , he is acting strangely , and finally tells her some bad news which he should have told her a long time ago . Filled with anger , she kills him with a leg of lemb from the freezer in a burst of passion . After that , she puts the leg in the oven and goes out to buy some groceries . When Mary returns , she finds the corpse , and after some weeping beside her husband's dead body , calls the police . After some questioning , she remembers the leg of lamb and asks the police officers to eat it , thus conveniently disposing of the murder weapon .

Love is about a man and woman who have failed to find the perfect match . When they meet each other , they feel that they are perfect matches . After some time together , they realise that they are not compatible . Only at this time , they realise that they have already found the perfect match , but did not realise it in the first place . So they marry their past lovers , and "live happily ever after" .

Male Child is about a man with 6 daughters , but wants a son . His wife is pregnant , but he feels that it will be another girl . When he finds another young woman , he decides to marry her but keep her a secret . Unfortunately , she does not want to be kept as a mistress but as a wife openly acknowledged by all . He tells his wife about it , and she says that he can leave her if the next child is a girl . At this point , instead of wanting his wife to give birth to a boy , he wants a daughter . This is the turning point of the story .

The story I like most out of the above is Lamb to the Slaughter . This is because the first time I read it , I did not realise the implications in the story , as it was only a bit of leisure reading . After the LA lessons , I realised that a lot of thinking is needed to analyse the story and find the true meaning of it . This is why I like Lamb to the Slaughter , as it is the story in which I realised all the differences , and changed .