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Suspense In Lamb To The Slaughter
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• Topic sentence:There are so many reasons why "The landlady"and “"Lamb to the Slaughter"”create suspense.They play important roles in the stories one is a murder and another wants certain men.These roles create suspense and will tell the author what is going on in the story.
Summary of both stories : In lamb to the slaughter Mary kills her husband,Patrik,because she wants to be with him because him and Mary are having a child.As Mary hits patrick with the lamb Mary tries to hide the weapon by putting it in the oven.She calls the detective and they try to find the murderer and the weapon,but which of course its the lamb as the weapon.In the landlady its about a boy called Billy weaver and he is trying to be a buissnes man as he wonders in the town a bath.He finds a place to stay called the bed and brakefast there is a old landlady who invites Billy,to stay with her as he gets invited in the house he finds things diffrent than a reagular motel no coats nor hats.
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Dhal depicts the animals as dead in the story "The landlady"she has the animal's well preserved like the parrot and the dog,the leg in "Lamb to the Slaughter" depicts as a weapon like a club . Animals Landlady in the bed and breakfast in the night time in the dining room of the landlady’s home and in
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Nonetheless what these two are comparing how both men are being troubled one by confusion and one by murder by a woman and a leg of lamb

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What are the differences in both stories

Is one story more effective at proving your thesis?yes because my thesis is stating my main idea on how they both put forward one of the paragraph i'm talking about is "Lamb to the Slaughter” and "The landlady"and how they affect my paragraph in my outline

Is that story more effective because of its differences?: yes because its talking about how they are comparing landlady and "Lamb to the Slaughter"

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