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Comparing 'Popular Mechanics And Lamb To The Slaughter'

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Compare and Contrast Essay In the stories “Popular Mechanics” by Raymond Carver and “Lamb to the Slaughter” by Roald Dahl the quote that fits these stories is “Emotions like sadness and anger lead to miscommunication”. In both stories something bad happens and it was started off by fighting and it ended up that someone has to suffer the consequences. In the story “Popular Mechanics” the baby suffered the consequences and in the story “Lamb to the Slaughter” the husband suffered the consequences. Disagreements are not always a good thing because depending on the person they could either just argue or they can get violent. That is what the stories are trying to explain. Somethings are better left unsaid

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