“Lamb to the Slaughter”

Hi, my name is Siwoo, and I created a found poem. This poem is made with words from Lamb to the Slaughter by Roald Dahl.

In the story, Mary Maloney waits for her husband to come home. After her husband comes home, she tries to give him some food to

eat, but her husband refuses. Therefore she argues with him, and Mary Maloney gets frightened because of her husband’s actions.

Finally, her husband tells her why he is refusing and is angry. After Mary Maloney listens to the story that her husband tells, she tries to reject it all.

(rising action)While Maloney tries to become calm again, she prepares her husband’s dinner.

This time, she didn’t listen to her husband, she grabbed a leg of lamb and tried to cook.

(climax)She stops right behind her husband, and she hits her husband with the leg of the lamb.

In the story, page 3 explains the situation of Mary Maloney and her husband fighting.

The conflict type is external (p vs. p), and the protagonist of this story is the 2 police, a detective, and doctors (not the main character), the antagonist is Mary Maloney herself.

My poem shows Mary Maloney herself’s reaction after finding out what had happened to her husband.

The story is very dark and clammy, so I used a red color for the text and a bigger text size.

The illustration of my poem shows the ambiance of the story, it’s clammy, cold, dark, etc., and the skull in the background fully shows the concept of the story.