Lamb to the Slaughter vs. The Vist
By: Arianna Henriquez
Summary of Lamb to the Slaughter
Mary Maloney and her husband (Patrick Maloney) are just an ordinary couple with much love for each other and are expecting a child together. Mary was going to make a dinner for her husband thinking it was going to be just like every other night with a nice dinner. Until Marys' husband decides to tell her some unpleasant news and she isn't to happy about the news and something so shocking happens.
Summary of The Vist (The movie)
Becca and younger brother Tyler leave their mother to go visit their grandparents in Pennsylvanian that they've never seen or talked to ever. They see their Nana and Pop Pop, they begin their week with them and all seems well until the siblings start to notice really strange behavior from their grandparents. Once the children discover a shocking secret, they begin to wonder if they'll ever make it home.
Similaritys and Differances
Simliarites in Inory between both Horror Storys
There's plenty of Irony in both story's there's to many to situations to choose from to tell. In Lamb of the Slaughter when Mary Maloney kills her husband we know about it and what happened to the husband while the police officers have not suspicion about anything; they all believe that it was someone else and never the wife. Also when she Mary goes to get food for "their" dinner from Sam (A shop owner) and Sam asks about her husband, Patrick, and how she was doing. Mary was just playing it off saying she was fine and still pretending that her husband was alive. While in The Visit when the siblings try to tell their mother about the things the grandparents have been doing but she doesn't believe them and that's when the audience is yelling at the mom to listen. Also when Tyler knew something about them (he opened the door past 9:30 and saw he grandma acting crazy) he tried to tell Becca but she didn't listen so we knew what was going with the grandma but Becca didn't.
Differences in Suspense between both Horror Storys
Lamb of the Slaughter isn't super suspenseful. There's a little part before she kills her husband and it's talking about how she swung the leg as hard as she could behind his neck. While in The Visit there's plenty of suspense like at the end when the grandparents attempt to kill the kids and everyone is on the edge of their seats waiting to see what happens next. Also how when the kids left the room past 9:30 P.M. and you would hear screaming from the grandma and many people were wondering what was going to happen next. Another thing that happened was when they played hide-and-seek because the grandma was chasing them and not many people could infer what was going to happen when the grandma was doing that.
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What really happened in Lamb of the Slaughter
Mary's husband (Patrick Maloney) informs her that he has been having an affair with another women while he was with her and he still wanted to leave money for her to be taken care of. The only issue was Mary wasn't too happy with the news he delivered and decides that when she gets back from the freezer with a lamb leg that was was going to kill him with it. We are all aware of what happened that night while when she calls the police she acts as if she just found her husband dead and the police believe her and never even begin to suspects her.
What really happened in The Visit
When Becca and Tyler get to their grandparents house they learn that they're are not actually their grandparents these people worked with them and killed the real grandparents and pretended to be the real ones. These people are very mental and they attempt to kill the children when they found out their secret luckily Becca and Tyler warned their mother before they we killed and their mom showed up with police to stop the crazy old people and they do save them.