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Compare And Contrast Lamb To The Slaughter And Jury Of Her Peers
In the two two stories, Lamb to the Slaughter and Jury of Hers Peers, there are many similarities and differences like, they are different because of the setting, the way the victim was killed, and if the audience knows who the killer was; the similarities are both the killers were the wives, both stories show understanding for the wife, and why she murdered, and both stories are told in 3rd person limited.
There are many differences in these two stories. Even the setting is different. In Lamb to the Slaughter, the setting is in Canada around the 1950s. In Jury of Her Peers, the story takes place in The western frontier of America around the 1920s. The time period makes a huge difference because of the technology. In the 1950s, they were

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