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“Lamb to the Slaughter”
Climax:
Rising Action (Complications):
The officers eat the murder
weapon and evidence
6. Mary offers the officers leg of lamb
For dinner
5. Mary manipulates the
police
Falling Action:
Mary giggles
4. Mary calls the police
3. Mary creates her alibi by baking
the lamb and going to the store
Resolution
(Dénouement):
2. Mary hits Patrick over the
head with frozen leg of lamb
Mary gets away
with murder
Conflict(s):
1. Mary grabs lamb from
freezer
Inciting Event:
Patrick tells
Mary “the
news”
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Ch vs. Ch
Ch vs. Society
Ch vs. Nature
Ch vs. Self
Theme (Moral):
Ch vs ChMary vs Patrick
A mother will do
anything for her children
Ch vs SocietyMary vs Police
Happy wife, happy life
Exposition:
 Characters:
 Setting:
Mary Maloney(with child), Patrick Maloney, Detectives, Sam
The Maloney’s home, 1950s, evening, grocery store