Introduction

The Found Poem is about Lamb to the Slaughter by Roald Dahl. The story is about Mary Maloney, who has a husband, Patrick. Mary kills Patrick because Patrick is leaving her. By killing Patrick, the story shows an external conflict.

Protagonist, Antagonists

Mary is the protagonist in this story. I knew this from this quote: “She knew that there were other policemen in the garden all around the house.” (Dahl paragraph 101). I thought this was a part where it shows that Mary is the protagonist and the detectives are the antagonists, for usually, the main character is the protagonist, and the antagonists are the ones who are trying to stop the protagonist. In this short story, even though Mary’s the one who killed Patrick, she’s the protagonist who is leading the story, and the detectives are the antagonists who are trying to stop her.

Conflict

There’s an external conflict in this story which is Person vs Person. There are some internal conflicts in this story, but I thought this Person vs Person is the most important conflict in this short story. The quotes I chose show the external conflict of the story, Mary Maloney killing Patrick: “She couldn’t feel anything at all”, “A leg of lamb”, “Without any pause”, “She might just as well have hit him”, “I’ve killed him”, “It came out rather peculiar.” These quotes show Mary has killed Patrick, and it’s a very obvious external conflict. The reason I chose the first quote is because I thought it will effectively show how Mary had felt when she heard the harsh news. The second to fourth quotes are the quotes how she had kill him; hitting him using leg of lamb without any hesitation. I thought the last quote shows Mary’s feeling after she killed him. The first and last quote is kind of showing Mary’s internal conflict, and I thought that would be better to show the external conflict very well.

Design

The design is to show the blood prints of Patrick. By using Aaron Kim’s spreading color machine, it helped me to make realistic blood spread out. The black outlines are for you to see clearer the quotes/ words I chose. The most important part of this design is it shows the blood so that it can actually express how it was like in the story.

Citation

Reading cite of this story

https://www.classicshorts.com/stories/lamb.html

About the author, Roald Dahl

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Roald-Dahl

MLA Citation:

The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica. "Roald Dahl." Britannica, Adam Augustyn, www.britannica.com/
     biography/Roald-Dahl. Accessed 29 Aug. 2023.
"Roald Dahl." Classic Short Stroies, www.classicshorts.com/stories/lamb.html. Accessed 29 Aug. 2023.