Examples Of Foreshadowing In Lamb To The Slaughter

Using a Lamb to Slaughter Something that makes a mystery a great mystery is its setting of where it takes place. This helps makes a mystery a great mystery by creating the by making the mood more suspenseful. This makes is suspenseful because if you have a dark and gloomy forest you start to wonder, but if you have a happy sunny grass field it makes you think nothing is wrong in this place. In “Lamb to the Slaughter” by Roald Dahl, it has very suspenseful mood due to the setting. It also has a bit of foreshadowing done by characterization. In “Lamb to the Slaughter,” there is a woman who has a detective as a husband. The wife has been expecting a child for about six months now and she can't wait to spend the next six months with her

When he starts to speak he gets angry and tells his wife to sit down and don't move. After he tells her that he wants to divorce she grabs a leg of lamb from the freezer and she slams it on his head. After this, she goes to the store and grabs some food to cook the evidence. When she arrives home she calls the police and throws the food on the pan. When the police arrive they can't find any evidence and she offers them a meal, the evidence of the death. Something that makes this story suspenseful is the setting “ the room was warm, the curtains were closed, the two table lamps were lit.” This setting creates suspense by showing us that know one can see them because the curtains are closed it shows us that the room is dark and the source of light is the lamps on the table. This makes us feel happy at first but there is a deeper meaning to this. If I came home to a room where it was dark and no one could see me, I would start to get a little freaked out. This setting is light a first but has a gloomy dark side to it. This creates suspense by making us feel like everything is going to be alright when we know it is not. One thing that is created by foreshadowing is when the reader gets a sense that the wife has