{"id":18119,"date":"2023-05-01T02:03:12","date_gmt":"2023-05-01T02:03:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/questions\/a-major-theme-of-the-story-is-how-a-persons-true-nature-and-abilities-can-be-overlooked-when-underestimated-by-others\/"},"modified":"2023-05-01T02:03:12","modified_gmt":"2023-05-01T02:03:12","slug":"a-major-theme-of-the-story-is-how-a-persons-true-nature-and-abilities-can-be-overlooked-when-underestimated-by-others","status":"publish","type":"questions","link":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/questions\/a-major-theme-of-the-story-is-how-a-persons-true-nature-and-abilities-can-be-overlooked-when-underestimated-by-others\/","title":{"rendered":"A major theme of the story is how a person\u2019s true nature and abilities can be overlooked when underestimated by others."},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><b style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Writing Prompt:<\/b> In 1954, Harper\u2019s<br \/>\nMagazine published \u201cLamb To The Slaughter\u201d by Roald Dahl. Mary Maloney is the<br \/>\nprotagonist, one who seemed to embody the notion of a woman in post-WWII<br \/>\nAmerica: domestic and devoted to her husband\u2019s needs and happiness. However,<br \/>\none night, when John Maloney delivered major, unsettling news to Mary, she<br \/>\ndiscovered more to herself than anyone had thought possible. A major theme of<br \/>\nthe story <span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">is how a person\u2019s true<br \/>\nnature and abilities can be overlooked when underestimated by others.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Writing Prompt: In 1954, Harper\u2019s Magazine published \u201cLamb To The Slaughter\u201d by Roald Dahl. Mary Maloney is the protagonist, one who seemed to embody the notion of a woman in post-WWII America: domestic and devoted to her husband\u2019s needs and happiness. However, one night, when John Maloney delivered major, unsettling news to Mary, she discovered [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"disciplines":[706],"paper_types":[],"tagged":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/18119"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/questions"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/18119\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"disciplines","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/disciplines?post=18119"},{"taxonomy":"paper_types","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/paper_types?post=18119"},{"taxonomy":"tagged","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tagged?post=18119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}