“Her skin for this was her sixth month with a child, child had acquired a wonderful translucent quality, her mouth was soft, and her eyes with they new placid look seemed larger and darker than before”
The motive for why for why she killed her husband is because her husband was leaving her and she couldn’t take it because she had a child on the way. The reason why she didn’t want to be caught was because the sentence she would get for murder is death and she doesn’t know what’s going to happen to her child. Yes I don’t do feel a little bit of sympathy because she didn’t really know what was going on when she killed her husband is because she was in a state of shock.
The sitting in the Lamb To Slaughter: is described as a room “warm and clean, the curtains drawn the two table lamps a light”. It is clean quiet and relaxing. I don’t feel any sympathy for the for the victim wanting to leave because to me it seems kind, friendly and attentive. How can he think of leaving his wife while she pregnant.
The sitting of the event is the living room in the house. The atmosphere of the house there was no light it was silent and they was a half lighted light by the window the other detail that add to the atmosphere of the house. It is scary, feels cold and they was a whistling sound and a bell. In the Lamb To The Slaughter the detective did not see the woman as the suspect because she was pregnant and they thought she might be to weak to kill someone like her husband. The thing that the detective shouldn’t have done was to eat the evidence, which Mrs. Maloney had cooked. When the woman offered them something to eat they took it and they didn’t know that it was the murder weapon she used to kill husband. She cleverly and cunningly persuaded the police to eat the evidence.
“Patrick would never forgive me, God bless his soul, if I allowed you to remain in this house without offering you decent hospitality, why don’t you eat up that lamb that in the oven? It will be cooked just right by now”
In the Speckled Band the detective went to victim’s sisters to investigate what killed the victim’s sister and catch the cuprit that killed the victim’s sister. He took all the clues found seriously so as know who the cuprit is and to know how to catch them or him. The detective’s ability was good because he know what he’s doing and how to do it and because he has been in the job for along time. He how to handle the clues and suspects and nothing happens to the murderer in the Lamb To The Slaughter. My feeling towards the murderer in The Lamb To the Slaughter is that she really lucky to get away with murder and I really think it wasn’t really her fault because her husband was going to leave her. This doesn’t really happen in all murder mystery because all most of the murder mysteries I’ve read always have the cuprit locked up for years or they get sentence to death. The difference about this story is that cuprit got away and she was very smart to make the detectives eat the murder weapon. She knew exactly what to do because her husband was a policeman and they most probably talked about such things. The murderer in the
Speckled Band was the step dad. He died because his murder weapon reacted against him. I feel he deserved to die because he was planning to kill his stepdaughter; having killed already killed her sister. This usually happen in all murder stories either they get locked up in jail or they kill themselves or some other tragedy happens. With they own murder weapon. The second stepdaughter should get married and the murder weapon should be destroyed.
The part I found interesting in The Lamb To Slaughter is the part that the detective wife killed her husband. The part that made me read the story is when the doctor said his skull was smashed a to pieces just like a sledgehammer. This is another exciting part to the story also the language keeps you interested. The room was warm and clean the curtain drawn.”
The exciting part of The Speckled Band was when the step dad died because his murder weapon turned against him. This is quotation which made me carry on reading this book “he must recall the snake (murder weapon) before the morning light revealed it to the victims.
The way I knew The Speckled Band is set in the Victorian times is because they had no light and the form of transport they used was dog carts and the English they used sound different from today’s.
The way you can tell The Lamb To The Slaughter is set in the 1950’s is because next to the title it tells you when it was written.
Interestingly in all the detective stories I’ve read the female character are the victim my explanation for this is that mostly the female characters are too weak to play the role of a murder.
My Conclusion.
I like both stories The Speckled Band and the Lamb To The Slaughter because they are both interesting. The reason why people will always’s like reading murder mysteries is because it’s interesting and sometimes they always leave you in suspense.
