Literature Course - Activity 2

Instructions: Read the following questions and answer them in the commentary section.  Please write long and complete sentences.

Lamb to the Slaughter by Roald Dahl

Story Questions: 

1. Choose one character and give 3 characteristics that shows critical thinking.
2. Which would you say that is the theme of this story?
3. Why is Mary's visit to the grocery store an important event?
4. How does Mary behavior play a role in assuring that the policeofficers didn't suspect of her? 
5. Readers don't know the news that Patrick had for Mary. What do you think he was going to tell her?
6. What irony described perfectly the end of the story?
7. Which part of the story caught your attention and why?