Lamb To The Slaughter Vs Popular Mechanics Essay

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Popular Mechanics and Lamb to the Slaughter and both the same and different at the same time. They have some similarities and some differences, and I’m going to tell you them. Popular Mechanics is more about two people fighting and then they argue about the baby. Lamb to the Slaughter is more a crime scene story. Both stories are about a couple fighting about something important. Both couples are getting divorced and something bad happens in both stories. Overall, there are many differences and similarities in Popular Mechanics and Lamb to the Slaughter.

“Popular Mechanics,” by Raymond Carver and “Lamb to the Slaughter,” by Roald Dahl both have many things in common. Here are some things that Popular Mechanics and Lamb to the Slaughter have in common. In the same way, both stories involve a couple fighting. Also, both couples have or are having a baby. In Popular Mechanics and Lamb to the Slaughter it is the husband's fault that they couples are getting divorced. Another similarity is
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Popular Mechanics is about a man and a women are arguing and the man is leaving, he is moving out. The women keeps saying that she’s happy about it but she keeps crying. They both have a child together and the man wants to take the baby with him. The women does not want to let the child go. The women and the man are fighting over the baby. But in the end something bad happens. Lamb to the Slaughter is about a husband and a wife. In the beginning the husband and the wife are talking calmly with each other. Then the man confesses something and he tells the wife that he is moving out. The women is pregnant and not happy that he is moving out. The wife cheated on the husband and now he is moving out. The women goes to make food but does something shocking instead. She has to deal with the consequences but she does something else. Overall, as you can tell these two stories are very