The Interlopers By Saki And Lamb To The Slaughter

Words: 299
Pages: 2

Anger can make people do things they would never do. Dahl and Saki use irony and character development to make the stories more intriguing for the reader and to have them on edge. In the Interlopers story by Saki and Lamb To The Slaughter by Dahl, it is clear that both stories use extreme irony by using different elements that the readers know that the characters do not. In The Interlopers by Saki, "When the two men go out to kill each other, only to make up and be killed by wolves. "This shows situational irony because no one expected that to happen. An example of the Lamb To Slaughter is, “It'd be a favor to me if you'd eat it up. Then you can go on with your work afterward.” This is dramatic irony because the police are eating the evidence