Theme Analysis Essay Assertion Planning Process: Short Story: Lamb To The Slaughter

Possible Quotation Options (Taken from Group Work Planning on Themes, Quotes, and Literary Elements and use your Ass
Breakdown):
**Note - you cannot repeat literary devices**Note: you are working independently on this assignment**Note: your work needs to
be in RED**
Theme: Betrayal
Sexy Quote (7 words or less that encompasses the theme - it cannot be a quote you are using in your essay):
Paragraph 1 ASS Topic: Her husband leaving her AND Mary killing her husband

Q1: And in the other room, Mary Maloney

HOW DOES THE Q & LE PROVE THE ASS IDEA:

began to giggle, as the police ate the leg of

lamb.

IT SHOWS THE TRUE MEANING OF BETRAYAL AND

DRAMATIC IRONY.

HOW DOES THE Q & LE PROVE THE THEME:

ITS SHOWING HOW BETRAYAL CAN DRIVE A PERSON
TO DO MISCHIEVOUS THINGS
Q1 Lit Element:
DRAMATIC IRONY
Q2:Maybe, if she went about her business and

HOW DOES THE Q & LE PROVE THE ASS IDEA:

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.

SHE WAS HYSTERICAL ABOUT MURDURING HER

HUSBAND

HOW DOES THE Q & LE PROVE THE THEME:

HER MOOD WAS VERY ANGRY YET SADDENED AND
HYSTERICAL.

MOOD- SHE FELT TROUBLED BY THE

THOUGHT OF HIM ACTUALLY LEAVING
HER.
GO TO NEXT PAGE FOR ASS 2

Paragraph 2 ASS Topic: MARY MALONEY WAS METICULOUS IN HER PLANNING

Quotation Options:
Q1: She loved to luxuriate in the presence of this

HOW DOES THE Q & LE PROVE THE ASS IDEA:

man, and to feel - almost as a sunbather feels

the sun - that warm male glow that came out of
him to her when they were alone together.

SHE WAS VERY DETAILED ABOUT HER PLOT TO

MURDER MR.MALONEY.

HOW DOES THE Q & LE PROVE THE THEME:

SHE BASICALLY FELT LIKE FIRE WHEN HER HUSBAND
BROKE HER HEART.
Q1 Lit Element: Allusion
Q2:MARY BEING UNABLE TO HANDLE UNWANTED
NEWS.

HOW DOES THE Q & LE PROVE THE ASS IDEA:

MARY WAS UNSTABLE AND iNCAPABLE OF HANDLING
SUCH STRESS.

HOW DOES THE Q & LE PROVE THE THEME:

SHE HAD NO CLUE AS TO WHY SHE FELT THIS WAY.
Q2 Lit Element:
MOOD