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The Necklace And Lamb To The Slaughter

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The story "The Necklace" and "Lamb to the Slaughter" both show a great of showing a situation irony but one does a better job of showing it.I believe the story "The Necklace" shows it better.The story "Lamb to the Slaughter" does show irony but it wasnt good as the story"The Necklace".

The story "The Lamb to the Slaughter" took place in the 1950.It was about a wife that was 6 month pregnant and a husband.The wife killed her husband with a lambs leg that she was about to cook.Right when she killed him she put the lambs leg in the oven to cook.She killed him because he wanted to break up with her but the wife was mad and upset about him leaving her for an other woman.She made it look like some one else killed him and called the police.The police asked her question about the husband death but all she said that she found him dead.She ask the detective to turn off the oven and take out the lambs leg.She offered the police officers that was at her house if they wanted to eat.The irony of the story was that when they was eating the lambs legs the detective said that the tool that killed the husband must of been a big blunt …show more content…

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