Topic: How and why does Roald Dahl use tone to reveal more about characters?Thesis: In "Lamb to the Slaughter ” by Roald Dahl the use of tone is comprehensively to show the true lamb of the story, Patrick.I. Introduction Paragraph A. Introductory strategy = synopsis of how human beings encounter too many difficulties and, if not repressed, can lead to conflictB. Features "Lamb to the Slaughter" and Roald Dahl1. Provide background information on the basic plot: Patrick divorces Mary for another woman and Mary becomes angry and slaughters Patrick with a leg of lamb.C. Thesis Statement - In Roald Dahl's "Lamb to the Slaughter" the use of tone serves to comprehensively show the many conflicts that occur.II. Dark Tone - Mary takes Patrick's divorce seriously and goes to farA. Primary source quote about Mary killing Patrick1. Quote - Patrick falls when Maria hits him like “a steel club... on the back of the head” (Dahl 2).2. Analysis - The force with which Mary hits Patrick represents the amount of anger she feels towards Patrick. Mary Patrick never likes her from the beginning.B. Secondary source quote about Patrick's innocence1. Quote - As Thomas Bertonneau says, “…no matter how much he fits the stereotype of the male cheater of women, Patrick does not deserve to die” (132).2. Analysis - Bertonneau agrees that Patrick doesn't deserve to die and that he didn't do anything too extreme to Mary.III. Ironic Tone: Mary is seen as the lamb but Patrick is the real lamb. Primary Source1. Quote -2. Analysis -B. Secondary source quote about Patrick being a real lamb1. Quote - “The lamb of our better nature must ever watch over the beast for slaughter” (Bertonneau 134).2. Analysis - Thomas Bertonneau explains how Patrick should have kept an eye out for the beast, Mary. Roald Dahl tricks the reader at the beginning by making Mary look like the lamb.IV. Tragic Tone - Mary gets divorced and how it later affects her, killing PatrickA. Primary source quote about Mary getting divorced1. Quote - "Her first instinct was not to believe anything... maybe he hadn't even spoken, she was imagining everything" (Dahl 2).