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    Lamb to the Slaughter

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    Comparing Stories Over the passed six weeks we have been reading two detective stories: ‘The Speckled Band’ by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and ‘Lamb to the Slaughter’ by Roald Dahl. Both stories are diverse and decisive but‚ are very different. The stories contain basic detective ingredients such as‚ the evil villain‚ the cunning detective and most importantly an action packed ending. ‘The Speckled Band’ is a fairly long story which is filled with information. The text is stretched out into many

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    The Gift of the Magi

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    The gift of the Magi is talking about a couple want to buy the Christmas gifts for each other on Christmas eve. But both of them have no money to buy the other a gift. Then they made a idea that they gave up their valuable things and bought gifts for the other. The ending of the story is unpredictable and surprised. The wife cut down her beautiful hair to buy a watch chain for her husband‚ and her husband sold his watch and got a comb for his wife. They both lost their valuable things and received

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    The Gift of the Magi

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    The Gift of the Magi In the short story “The Gift of the Magi” by O. Henry I feel that there is more than one theme that can be seen through the story‚ that of love‚ giving and sacrifice. The theme in a story is a representation of the idea behind the story. (Clugston‚ 2010) The main idea is that the best gift is that which is most sincere and comes from the bottom of the heart instead of an extravagant‚ lavish possession that would bring nothing to the warmth of the human relationship. The author

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    The lack of imagery and metaphor in O. Henry’s short story “The Gift of Magi” make the few Bible allusions stand out. In the last paragraph O. Henry compares Jim and Della to the three wise men that came to give gifts to Jesus on the first Christmas. Also in the exposition of the story there are another two Biblical allusions. Della’s hair is written to be so beautiful that her hair would depreciate The Queen of Sheba’s jewels and gifts. And Jim’s golden watch would have made King Solomon pluck his

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    Lamb to the Slaughter

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    Essay on the short story “Lamb to the Slaughter” by Roald Dahl A great deal of people gets divorced. Not everyone reacts the same way‚ however. Some take it as another step in life but others can lash out with anger and alcohol. It all has to do with how well people can cope with the separation. Mary Maloney is one of the ones that take the news hard; and one of the many that takes rejection to another level. A lot of people turn to the courts to settle things‚ but not Mary Maloney. In what seems

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    Lamb to the Slaughter.

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    Lamb To The Slaughter. Roald Dahl. i will be writing an essay on Roald Dahl’s short story ’Lamb To The Slaughter;. In this essay i will be telling you about Mrs. Mary Maloney‚ setting‚ plot and my conclusion. Has Roald Dahl created the perfect murder? Lets find out. First i will be writing about the setting. Roald Dahl describes the home as ’’warm and clean’’‚ ’’curtains drawn’’‚ ’’two table lamps alight’’ and ’’two tall glasses‚ soda water whisky’’. He also makes Mr and Mrs Maloney’s

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    Analysis the short story “ the Gift of Magic” by O.Henry O. Henry whose real name was William Sydney Porter was a famous American writer. He’s considered one of the great American short story authors. O. Henry’s stories are known for rich emotion ‚ their playful and optimistic sense of humor‚ and especially for their twist endings. One of O.Henry ‘s stories the most loved by Western reader is “ The gift of Magic “. It can also be considered as one of the Christmas

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    Lamb to the Slaughter

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    Lamb to the Slaughter” written by Roald Dahl is classified under fiction and inspires us to look more closely at the representation of gender. “Lamb to the Slaughter” is about a wife who is fed up with her husband who was going to leave her for another man‚ which therefore ends up with her killing him with a leg of lamb. The three main points that outline this story are: when they assumed that the murderer was a man‚ how they are showing that women do things for their husband‚ and also how she stayed

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    Lamb To The Slaughter

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    has captured readers from the entire world with his short story‚ “Lamb to the Slaughter.” Dahl traps the reader into sympathizing with a killer. “Lamb to the Slaughter” is a great story because the author adds his touch‚ the theme is distinct‚ it relates to popular culture during the time it was written‚ it makes the reader make difficult moral choices‚ and the story relates to itself in a unique manner. In “Lamb to the Slaughter‚” the author makes this a great story. He steps out of his point

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    The Gift and the Magi

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    A DISCOURSE ANALYSIS OF SHORT STORY OF O. HENRY’S “THE GIFT OF THE MAGI” RESEARCH PAPER Submitted as a Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for Getting Bachelor Degree of Education in English Department by: MULYATI A 320 040 336 SCHOOL OF TEACHER TRAINING AND EDUCATION MUHAMMADIYAH UNIVERSITY OF SURAKARTA 2008 CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION A. Background of the Study Story book is one of reading media which most people are interested in. They prefer to read story book other kind of book such

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