The wife...

Lamb to the Slaughter:


Roald Dahl was a great writer, he did a lot of amazing books but there is a particular book that he did that caught my attention and I think that to many others too. The book is called "Lamb to the Slaughter". The book is about Patrick Maloney who is a detective and her one of a kind wife Mary Maloney. The book is basically about Mr. Maloney getting to his house and telling some bad news to his wife and apparently this news are so bad enough to make Mary Maloney so crazy to the point of killing her husband. After that she putted the murder weapon which was a lamb leg to cook in the oven, then she went to buy some vegetables. Not long after she returned home and acted like if she just got home finding his husband dead in the living room floor. Then she called the police and they came and she faked like if she didn't knew what happened and after hours of cops being at her house she remembered of the leg of lamb in the oven so she didn't hesitated on offering it to the police mans so as simple as that they ate the murder weapon which killed their friend...


While reading the story I find a particular quote that clearly represents the use of imaginary in the story which lets the readers like me visualize what's happening in the story easier.


"She carried the meat into the kitchen, placed it in a pan, turned the oven on high, and shoved t inside. Then she washed her hands and ran upstairs to the bedroom. She sat down before the mirror, tidied her hair, touched up her lops and face. She tried a smile. It came out rather peculiar."


In this quote we can clearly see the use of imaginary when the author included words like "kitchen" or "high" or "tided". All this words help us imagine what would the setting would be like.

While reading the story I also found that there's also another quote which we can see that's not imaginary but characterization included.  

"She began thinking very fast, as the wife of a detective, she knew quite well what the penalty would be."

Here we can see perfectly the use of characterization because we can easily comprehend the personality of Mary Maloney because even do she knows what the consequences of killing a detective she didn't seemed to care much, as if she doesn't take things for granted and we can also se she's crazy.





Here is the link to a little clip that I made with my brother of Lamb to the Slaughter:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95mVo0tNfeE

The Most Revealing Chapters!

I resumed the previous chapters in a criss cross puzzle, this were the most interesting and most revealing chapters of the book by now so I hope you like it and that you can do it!

Criss Cross Puzzle of the Most Revealing Chapters!

Across
3. The feeling The Giver had for the girl
5. The thing that girl applied to
6. The game which made Jonas feel pain again
8. What Jonas is planning to do...
9. The thing Jonas doesn't takes anymore
Down
1. Where was the vaccine injected
2. The reciver who failed 10 years ago
4. The memories __ to people after that
7. What Jonas's father did to the twin

"Once again, as he had on the playing field, he felt the choking sensation. Once again he saw the face of the light -haired, bloodied soldier as life left his eyes. The memory came back. He killed it! My father killed it! Jonas said to himself, stunned at what he was realizing. He continued to stare at the screen numbly."


This quote made me think a lot of things. While reading it apparents to be that not only Jonas was shocked but trust me, I was too! I didn't expected that Jonas father was going to kill that twin. I had a lot different vision of what a release was. I really don't think that Jonas father knows that he´s killing that newborn child. I think he is just given others and that he follows them without knowing much of them. Maybe he even thinks he is given the twin a kind of sedant or anesthesia so he could be asleep while he´s going to elsewhere. When Jonas saw this we could infer that all releases are like that. After watching the video of the release I think that Jonas will never see he´s father the same way he used to do.


I really want to read the final chapters of the book and see what happens with Jonas´s plan to escape. I want to see what happens next! This are definitely the most revealing chapters of the whole book by now. If I was shocked at seen Jonas´s father killing that twin I can´t imagine how Jonas would've felt. I really want to see the movie of this book because probably it explains things quite better just like the release part. In conclusion I really liked this chapters and I can´t wait to read the final ones, and I hope you liked the cross word puzzle.

Pain is Inevitable, Suffering is Optional

A lot of exiting things happened during this chapter and some of them are really interesting but personally I think that the following are the 4 most important. I will represent them in a comic strip. Its not in order.


COMIC STIP:

"Jonas entered the Annex room and realized immediately that it was a day when he would be sent away. The Giver was rigid in his chair, his face in his hands. I´ll come back tomorrow, sir, he said quickly. Then he hesitated. Unless maybe there´s something I can do to help"


This quote on page 118 made me think a lot about Jonas and his way of being. Jonas could've just go away but Jonas Isn't like that.... Jonas always tries to help people like the giver for example. Jonas is a really good kid and he always thinks for the best of the community. Those type of things make you have a good life when you grow up.




You might find my tittle a little confusing and for me it is confusing too but I'll try to explain it as good as I can. As you may had seen in the previous chapters, Jonas was given the memory of warfare and that was really painful for Jonas because he wasn't used to does things and he felted a lot of pain and that's part of the tittle when it says "Pain is Inevitable" . I think Jonas is really strong because he have been given this memories that are really painful and I also think that Jonas is very perseverant because he doesn't gives up on the memories even the painful ones. That's when we come to the part of  "Suffering is Optional" because he can simply give up and not want to get more painful memories but that's not he's choice......