In both stories, "the way up to heaven" and "Lamb to the slaughter", stories by Roald Dalph, have many similarities and diffences but their content are very much the same.
Similarities:
(Husbands)
-Both husbands in each story are inhuman, giving their wife a cold shouler as if they do not care for them anymore.
-Again, both husbands find their wife a pain in the neck.In lamb to the slaughter, Patrick Maloney finds his wife too submissive which later left her, only to be killed.Then, in the way up to heaven, the husband knows that his wife hates being late and yet he purposely did his best to try to irritate her as he finds out that she is too much of a nuisance.In the end, both husbands are killed.
(Wifes)
-They are too rash on their decisions and as I have mentioned before in my previous post, they chose the hard way round to avoid reality and killed their husband.
-They changed their personality and have a totally different character from the start.We would not imagined them to be such vicious killers.
Differences:
(Husband)
-Patrick Maloney was really mean and his wife did not mean anything to him but in the way up to heaven, Mr Foster tried to irritate his wife but did not mean a lot harm to Mrs Foster.
(Wife)
-In Lamb to the slaughter , Mary Maloney turns out to be a shrewd and vicious murderer and planned every detail of the murder just to escape law unlike Mrs Foster. Mrs Foster murder was by leaving Mr Foster trapped in the lift.
Overall, both stories have differences and similarities and portay how Roald Dalph use words to describe each character's characteristic and how the story is developed.
Saturday, February 20, 2010
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yu xiang you have the most understanding of the two stories!----This is the conclusion I made after reading 11 other similar posts.
ReplyDeleteFirstly, I have to point out a TERRIBLE mistake that you have made in this blog. YOU, have spelled Roald Dahl as Roald Dalph!!! This is a mistake that WILL not be tolerated under ANY circumstances. That aside, your blog was quite well done and it shows that you have a great understanding of the two stories.
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ReplyDeleteI do not think that Mrs Foster chose to avoid reality. The moment that she found out that Mr Foster was deceiving her, she decided to kill her. In my opinion, that is not a form of avoiding reality. She is facing the reality that Mr Foster is deceiving her. But, I would not deny that Mrs Maloney was avoiding reality when she killed her husband. Indeed, this summary is well-written.
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