Journal Entry by Patrick Maloney in Lamb to the Slaughter

Due to the fact that Logical is not available. I went for my second best intelligence which is the style Intrapersonal.

Journal according to Patrick Maloney

August 5 1932


Tomorrow, I am going to tell Mary that I am in a relationship with another woman. In actual fact, this is not the case. I just want to get away from her for awhile. She is always so over-pleasing, irritating and as persistent as a mosquito when she wants something. She looks more like a baby in her recent personality. I have been criticising her character but she always does not take my comments to heart or even bothers to change. Now, I am going to let her see that I am serious that I want her to change. However, I am not going to leave her completely. Firstly, she is pregnant with our first child. Secondly, I do still care about her. Lastly, I do not have a relationship with another woman. Besides, I have planned in advance to live just opposite with my good friend, Sam and observe Mary from there. He has agreed anyway and is making the necessary arrangements for me. How kind of him :) Anyway, I am just going to stay with Sam until Mary gives in and changes for the better. I hope that Mary does not have a darker inner self and will not do anything drastic to me.

Alright, so this is my planned procedure:

1) After coming back and had dinner with Mary, I say that I need to go back to work. I go back to the office, I work until late in the night. I also used the time to think what I should do next in my plan.  After which I spray perfume on myself using a bottle of perfume I have bought from the nearby office. I go home, acting drunk. I have executed that for one whole month. Mary looked very scared at the end of the phase.

2) I stop the perfume plan and move on to have a faraway look every time my eyes rest on hers. I did it for 15 days. Now Mary is really looking terrified today. So far so good! All I have to do tomorrow is to tell Mary coldly that I am leaving her for another woman. Next, I will hurriedly grab the secret luggage of things I have packed and hidden in a dark corner, make a phone call to the postman that I have a change in address and set off to the other house. Tomorrow’s plan is going to be a little heart-breaking, imagine leaving your loved one for a while and observing her from opposite. :(

Patrick Maloney

My Learning Style and My View on the Intelligence Test

My Learning Style

Basically, my learning style is simple and direct: Logical which is Number Smart.

My View on Intelligence Test

I believe the test is a good gauge of your intelligence because it can tell if you are a  Logical, Linguistic etc. person. The results of intelligence test, however, can be tweaked to be some particular intelligence by people (Who may have attemoted it beforehand) by answering them in a way which it is unfair to others. Secondly, the intelligence test only looks at only 8 specific categories. It does not test on your other skills like your reaction and how good you are in sports.