“Anybody doesn’t like the way you look, screw’em”. The story, Angus Bethune by Chris Crutcher and the story Lamb to the slaughter by Ronald Dahl share many similarities and differences. One element where the two stories, share similarities and differences is in the Similarities and differences of the short story, Angus Bethune and the short story Lamb to the Slaughter. In both of the stories the protagonist’s were bullied by someone. In the story, ‘Angus Bethune’ , Angus was the one getting bullied by Rick. In ‘Lamb to the Slaughter’ , Mary gets bullied by her husband when he gets home. Both protagonist’s fight back against the bully in the stories. Angus fights back against rick by threatening him at the dance and standing up for himself and his parents. Mary fights back against her husband by smashing him in the back of the skull with a frozen lamb leg and killing him. They both stood up for themselves against the bullies in the stories.…show more content… He likes a girl named Mellissa but he knows he would never have a chance with her. Angus gets nominated to be snowball king and Mellissa is nominated to be snowball queen, thus Angus knows that he finally gets his chance. Angus goes to the dance in his plum colored tuxedo and right before it's time for him and Mellissa to dance her boyfriend Rick starts bullying Angus, therefore Angus threatens Rick and stands up for himself. Angus gets his chance and he and Mellissa have their dance, while they're dancing, she admits to Angus that she’s bulimic. Mellissa asks Angus if he will walk her home after the dance because she is amazed at how he stood up to rick, and Angus ends the story in a
