This found poem was created by the words of Roald Dahl. In the short story “Lamb to the Slaughter”. Mary Maloney in the short story as a role of a protagonist faces a challenge of covering her husband Patrick’s death. That she doesn’t want to be exposed that it was her who killed him. This has led to an internal and external conflict.  

In the story, Mary Maloney killed her husband Patrick when he wanted to leave her because of his job. That Mary uses the lamb leg to kill him as a weapon and pretended nothing happened. After she had adjusted her mood, she went to the grocery and came back crying like her husband wasn’t killed by her and called the police. When the police arrived, she started to persuade them to eat the lamb leg (late at night) which they didn’t know it was the weapon. 

This has led to a P vs P and P vs Self external conflict and internal conflict that Mary was stressed on the baby who is unborn yet.  

On paragraph 37-39 the external conflict has mentioned: “And he told her. It didn’t take long, four or five minutes at most, and she sat very still through it all, watching him with a kind of dazed horror as he went further and further away from her with each word. 

“So there it is,” he added. “And I know it’s kind of a bad time to be telling you, but there simply wasn’t any other way. Of course I’ll give you money and see you’re looked after. But there needn’t really be any fuss. I hope not anyway. It wouldn’t be very good for my job.” 

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. Maybe, if she went about her business and acted as though she hadn’t been listening, then later, when she sort of woke up again, she might find none of it had ever happened.” 

Over here we can see that Mary didn’t want to believe what his husband has said and was still wanting to make supper for him. But after she woke up of her imagination, she was full of anger and hate. This has made her thought of an idea of killing her husband.

 Then on paragraph 45 Mary had killed her husband with the lamb leg “At that point, Mary Maloney simply walked up behind him and without any pause she swung the big frozen leg of lamb high in the air and brought it down as hard as she could on the back of his head.”  

Plus, at the last sentence Mary acted innocent and kindly, which made the police and detectives thought that she was clever that the murder had nothing to do with her. That Mary has persuaded them to eat the lamb (weapon) to destroy her murdering tool.  

This has made a conflict that I’ve used of making my poem and I’ve also streched the words that will emphasize the conflict more. I’ve added colors on the words to portray the malicious/dark style of the story too. The images that I’ve put on the poster represents the whole story of what it looks like and what is happening, having the picture of a lamb leg and the wife.