Topic: How and why does Roald Dahl use tone to reveal more about characters?Thesis: In Roald's "Lamb to the Slaughter" Dahl, the use of tone is exhaustively to show the real lamb of the story, Patrick.I. Introduction ParagraphA.Introduction Strategy = summary of how humans encounter too much struggle and if not contained it can lead to conflictB. Introduce "Lamb to the Slaughter" and Roald Dahl1.Provide background information on the basic plot -Patrick divorces Mary for another woman, and Mary gets angry so she slaughters Patrick with a leg of lamb.C. Thesis Statement - In Roald Dahl's "Lamb to the Slaughter", the use of tone is intended to comprehensively show the many conflicts that arise.II. Dark Tone - Mary takes Patrick's divorce seriously and goes to FarA. Quote from primary source about Mary killing Patrick1. Quote - Patrick falls as Mary hits him like "a club of steel...in 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 never liked Patrick from the beginning.B. Secondary source quote on Patrick's innocence1. Quote - As Thomas Bertonneau says, "...no matter how much he fits the stereotype of the man who betrays women, Patrick does not deserve to die" (132).2. Analysis - Bertonneau agrees that Patrick does not deserve to die and that he did nothing too extreme towards Mary.III. Ironic tone: Mary is considered the lamb but Patrick is the real lamb. Primary source1. Quote -2. Analysis -B. Secondary source quote that Patrick is a real lamb1. Quote - “The lamb of our better nature must always keep a vigilant eye on the beast of slaughter” (Bertonneau 134).2. Analysis - Thomas Bertonneau explains how Patrick should have watched over the destructive beast, Mary. Roald Dahl misleads the reader at the beginning by making Mary look like the lamb.IV. Tragic Tone - Mary divorces and how it affects her later, killing PatrickA. Quote from primary source on Mary's divorce1. Quote - "Her first instinct was to believe nothing... perhaps he hadn't even spoken, that she was imagining it all" (Dahl 2).