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Compare And Contrast Popular Mechanics And Lamb To The Slaughter
This is about two stories that are called “Popular Mechanics” by Raymond Carver and “Lamb to the Slaughter” by Roald Dahi. These stories aren’t just ordinary stories that we read everyday no these two stories have a big twisted into it. Instead of having a happily ever after you get a shocking and horrifying ending. What connects these two stories is that their both short stories and the author in both stories want the readers to guess what happens in the story.

For “Popular Mechanics” is by Raymond Carver, who made a great and shocking story. In the book it shows a husband and wife who were fighting and then turned into a complete disaster. The wife and the husband were fighting over for the baby and the husband told her “let go” he said.

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