nutid datid rettelse, tak

Dette er min engelske stil. håber der en der har tiden til at skimte den igennem. Den ting jeg har størt problemer med, skulle jeg mene, er nutid/datid og alt det der. Vil gerne havde de værste fejl påpeget.
på forhånd tak.
og ps, indledningen er ikke helt færdig, men det er selve fremstilingen.




A Lamp to the Slaughter
What does it takes to solve a murder?
A loving caring wife is what every man wants, and Mary Maloney is a wife like that. Mary
Maloney is a housewife, who is about to have her first child. She is happy when she can bring joy and happiness to people especially her husband Patrick Maloney.

The initial picture that Roald Dahl creates of Mary Maloney is a total product of her society's conditioning. She is a stereotypical middle-class housewife of the mid 20th Century. She exudes respectability. At the start of the story Roald Dahl shows her to the reader as a very 'tranquil' woman 'without anxiety' and with 'a slow smiling air'. She has a very complacent lifestyle with no hard labour. Everything is one big routine and mundane and it seems like Mary is content with this. Roald Dahl demonstrates her satisfaction with this unadventurous lifestyle by using words as 'tranquil', 'placid', 'smiling', 'without anxiety' and 'blissful'. In short an easy, undemanding and unchallenging life. To build up the image of Mary for the reader, Roald Dahl sets the story in a room which clearly demonstrates a well-organised housewife. It is 'warm and clean' and all ready for her husband's return from work. This shows that her life revolves around him, because she has everything ready for his return, and that she spends everyday waiting for him to come home.

Mary’s personality is reflected in her marriage. Her relationship with Patrick and everything about the way they live is very superficial. It is obvious from the dialogue between them that they never argue, or show any strong emotions. They have a regularly marriage, with no room for conflict to be expressed or any kind of spontaneity. Even when Patrick tells her, he is leaving her, neither of them displays any emotion. The conversation takes no longer than five minutes, because it is simply not discussed, even though this will change their lives forever. Nor does Mary argue with Patrick about it.
But actually the reader does not know if he is leaving her, because we are never told so. The result of that is that what Mr. Maloney told Mrs Maloney stays a mystery. This adds a little suspense to the story and makes it catching, by letting the reader wonder, what Patrick could have told, that would make Mary want to kill her.
The main detective in the story is Sergeant Jack Noonan, although there are three others. He is definitely not observant or clever. Firstly, he allows Mrs Maloney to persuade him to drink some whiskey while he is on duty. This makes him notice unprofessional. He also assumes that since Patrick Maloney was hit with a large, blunt, heavy object, it had to be a man since a woman may not have been able to use an object that heavy. His phrase for cases like this one is; “Get the weapon, you've got the man”. He orders his men to search for the weapon for a long time, even though if it had been an attack like he suggests, it is more likely the murderer would have taken the weapon with him. It shows he does not think like a detective and he does not wonder about the motive. Because of Mary's role in the society, she is in a position where Noonan sees her as a loving wife, and not the killer.


The murder was very clever, she knew what she had to do, to cover up the murder from the detectives, and that she had to get an alibi. Mary used her husband’s job cleverly, she remembered what her husband had told her about murders and used it to her advantage. I do not think Mary would have thought about getting an alibi if it was not for the unborn baby she was carrying. The murder was unplanned as Mary acted on the moment, and it was not in her personality to do something like it, and she was totally out of character. Patrick is an innocent untypical victim, but anyway Roald Dahl creates sympathy on the murderer’s behalf.
Mary hides her evidence extremely well, after hours of searching for a murder weapon and clues, Mary very humorously convinces the detectives Jack Noonan and his colleagues to eat a little something.

The language describes more situations and human emotions than in most other whodunit stories, by describing details, surroundings and clues, because it matters in the plot of the story, for the reason that we already know who the murderer is in "Lamb to the Slaughter" The audience perceive an aspect of humour in the way how Noonan jumps to conclusions way too much and how he does not even consider other alternative, angles or evidence. They are kind of stupid because they said that the evidence is probably right under their noses while they ate the evidence -the leg of lamb-This really made them look like fools.
This do not sticks with anything I would associate with the detective genre. “A Lamp to the Slaughter” implies no higher mystery: the whole point of the story is that the reader knows who committed the crime, and just want to find out what happens to Mary, after she killed Patrick, and what made her do it. There are no answers for neither of the questions, but after finishing the text, I did not feel like I was left behind with a heap of unanswered questions.
In most of the other whodunit stories the murderer are planned and the big mystery is to figurer out; who the murderer is?
Knowing who the murderer is, keeps us hanging on for the fate of Mary Maloney, who in my eyes committed a crime of passion.