The Last Supper
This found poem I made was located in paragraph 35 to 45 of the story “Lamb to the slaughter” by Roald Dahl. There are two external conflicts in this story. The first conflict is man versus man. This is Mary Maloney to her husband. How did she decide to kill him with a lamb. The second is also man versus man, Mary Maloney to the police, how she hid the crime. I chose to place my poem in the first external conflict part because I think it plays a more significant role in the story. The first conflict occurred in the rising action of the story. This is a story of rising action because the author uses this plot to pave the way for the future, such as the climax and the exposition. In this conflict, the antagonist, the husband talked about the reason for leaving her because of his work, but the real reason was that he did not intend to be with her, and he wanted to abandon her. When she heard the news, her anger reached its climax. She could not believe that she took good care of the husband every day and that her beloved husband would leave her and abandon her like an unborn child. Therefore, when Mary Maloney saw that her husband was leaving, she had the idea of killing him.
There are two pieces of evidence that perfectly explain my idea. On the one hand, in the first half of paragraph 35, the reading materials include ” Her first instinct was not to believe any of it, to reject it all. It occurred to her that perhaps he hadn’t even spoken, that she herself had imagined the whole thing ” This means that even if Mary Maloney knew the truth, she refused to accept it and despaired that it would not happen. The last sentence shows the inner activities of Mary Maloney. In order to show reader how this how event is ridiculous and how the husband is a jerk. On the other hand, in the last part of paragraph 35, the author wrote, ” When she walked across the room, she couldn’t feel her feet touching the floor. She couldn’t feel anything at all — except a slight nausea and a desire to vomit” This shows how Mary Maloney’s extreme sadness and anger affected her after she began to accept the truth. This shows how her internal activities affect her external body. Although Mary Maloney decided to kill the husband, as a result, Mary Maloney has hidden the crime and protected her unborn child.