Alligator: Text Lamb
Sudat Khan 1/24/15
7224 English Can Humor Give People Life Lessons? By: Sudat Khan Class: 7224 The texts “Alligator” by Bailey White and “Lamb to the Slaughter” By Roald Dahl are texts that use humorous techniques. The text “Alligator’ is about a girl whose Aunt Belle bonds with an alligator. Throughout the text, Aunt Belle goes to the pond where the alligator lives and they both stare at each other. Suddenly, one day the alligator stops appearing in the pond. The text “Lamb to the Slaughter” is about wife and husband that talk about an important topic. The wife becomes shocked of what she hears and so, she kills her husband with a leg of lamb. These texts both convey serious messages about life by using humor. To begin with, the theme of the text “Alligator” is to make most of what you have. According to the text it states “The day came when she could just walk down to the pond and lookout across the water” (1). This quote explains that Aunt Belle just stared at an alligator doing nothing. Soon the alligator would stop appearing in the pond. The theme of the text “Lamb to the Slaughter” is being sly and cunning and get you out of trouble. In the text it states “At that point, Mary Maloney simply walked up behind him and without any pause, she swung the big frozen leg of lamb and brought it down as hard as she could….how clear her mind became all of a sudden. She began thinking very fast” (2). This quote shows how she killed her husband. She starts to think of ways to get out of trouble and she succeeds.
Pursuing this further, both humorous texts have a similar humorous technique. The technique they both use is to present an illogical, inappropriate or improper situation. In the text “Alligator” it says “The alligator would swell up. He would lift his head, arch his tail, and bellow” (1). This quote shows the illogical situation as the alligator bellowing. This is a very rare thing to
7224 English Can Humor Give People Life Lessons? By: Sudat Khan Class: 7224 The texts “Alligator” by Bailey White and “Lamb to the Slaughter” By Roald Dahl are texts that use humorous techniques. The text “Alligator’ is about a girl whose Aunt Belle bonds with an alligator. Throughout the text, Aunt Belle goes to the pond where the alligator lives and they both stare at each other. Suddenly, one day the alligator stops appearing in the pond. The text “Lamb to the Slaughter” is about wife and husband that talk about an important topic. The wife becomes shocked of what she hears and so, she kills her husband with a leg of lamb. These texts both convey serious messages about life by using humor. To begin with, the theme of the text “Alligator” is to make most of what you have. According to the text it states “The day came when she could just walk down to the pond and lookout across the water” (1). This quote explains that Aunt Belle just stared at an alligator doing nothing. Soon the alligator would stop appearing in the pond. The theme of the text “Lamb to the Slaughter” is being sly and cunning and get you out of trouble. In the text it states “At that point, Mary Maloney simply walked up behind him and without any pause, she swung the big frozen leg of lamb and brought it down as hard as she could….how clear her mind became all of a sudden. She began thinking very fast” (2). This quote shows how she killed her husband. She starts to think of ways to get out of trouble and she succeeds.
Pursuing this further, both humorous texts have a similar humorous technique. The technique they both use is to present an illogical, inappropriate or improper situation. In the text “Alligator” it says “The alligator would swell up. He would lift his head, arch his tail, and bellow” (1). This quote shows the illogical situation as the alligator bellowing. This is a very rare thing to