They searched the house for the murder weapon. They could not find it so she offered them tea. The Police eat the evidence.
Mary has a sense of humor she’s caring and loving. She has a split personality; she’s both weak and strong.
Patrick is a police officer. He likes his drink. He is very cruel to Mary.
The detectives are not very good at the job. They are stupid. They drink Patrick’s whiskey. They even eat the evidence.
The tension was very high was Mary going to get found out or want she? The evidence was cooking in the oven. I thought the police officer was going to find the piece of lamb. It was a big piece of lamb. We didn’t find out what Patrick was going to say because she didn’t want to know. She thought it was going to be some thing bad. When Patrick comes in he is quite and drinks a lot of drinks.
There is not a lot of description only when needed. There is a lot of description when the man drinks his drinks. It said about the ice cub hitting the side of the glass and the colour of the drink. It’s a simple story. Its short with easy vocabulary, short sentences so it’s easy to understand. There isn’t a lot of dialogue only at the start and at the end. The story is told by a 3rd person narrator a person that’s not in the story tells it! In the end the detectives don’t solve the mystery.
The Speckled Band
At the start of the story Helen Stoner comes to see Sherlock Holmes she tells him that her sister died in strange circumstances and that similar thing are starting to happen she also tell them about her step father. Holmes says that he will go to her house.
After she leaves Dr Roylott arrives and threatens Holmes. Before leaving Holmes goes to find out about the money that Helens mum left.
Holmes and Watson go to stoke Moran and meet Helen Stoner. They look around the outside of the house but find nothing strange. Then they go inside the house and look in the bedroom where Helen slept the night before. Holmes notices a fake bell pull and an unusual ventilator. Next they go into Dr Roylott’s room and find a saucer of milk and a dog lead.
Holmes and Watson leave and arrange to come back later.
Helen sends them a signal and they come over to the house. Helen goes to sleep in her own room. In a short while strange things start to happen. Holmes hits out at the bell-pull. Suddenly there is a loud scream. They go next door to Doctor Roylott’s room and find him dead. A snake killed him.
Helen is very weak and frail. She’s afraid of dying and she needs help.
Sherlock Holmes is a very good detective and he’s very clever he picks up on very small things.
Doctor Watson is a companion to Sherlock Holmes. He sometimes gives his opinion.
Doctor Roylott is angry he’s a bully he tries to intimidate people.
Tension and mystery are created throughout the story. For example we get the evidence but we don’t know what is going on until the end. Sherlock Holmes is very clever and has worked thing out very quickly. He found out about the rope the ventilator, saucer of milk, dog leash and he saw strange animals.
There s a lot of description. It is written in the past and present. There are lots of clue s throughout the story.
It has complicated vocabulary.
It was written a long time ago so it has old-fashioned language. It has a lot of dialogue and long, complicated sentences.
I am going to write about the similarities and differences. First I am going to write about similarities.
The weapons are both animals, a leg of lamb and a snake. They are both short stories that are written by males who are both dead. They both have detectives in the.
They are both mysteries.
Now I am going to write about the differences.
In Lamb to the Slaughter the murder is at the start.
The Speckled Band the murder is before the story begins and another at the end.
In Lamb to the Slaughter the weapon is not discovered.
In Lamb to the Slaughter it is set in the 20th century.
The Speckled Band in set in the 19th century
In Lamb to the Slaughter it is very easy language.
The Speckled Band has very complicated language and long sentences.
In Lamb to the Slaughter the detectives are very stupid they don’t even solve the crime and they even eat the evidence.
In The Speckled Band they have a detective call Holmes and he’s very clever he solves the murder with very little evidence.
I preferred The Lamb T The Slaughter Because I found it more intresting. I liked it because the dumb police didn’t find out who murdered the Police officer .
By Glenn Daly
