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    The document discusses and compares two short stories - "The Tell-Tale Heart" by Edgar Allan Poe and "The Monkey's Paw" by W.W. Jacobs. It argues that "The Tell-Tale Heart" is a better example of horror based on its use of suspense through elements like nighttime setting, immediate murder, and guilt-ridden narrator told from his point of view. In contrast, "The Monkey's Paw" takes place during the day, has wishes that cause a son's death, and lacks the same unsettling point of view. Overall, the document analyzes how these Gothic stories employ setting, themes, and perspective to establish atmosphere and suspense.

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    The document discusses and compares two short stories - "The Tell-Tale Heart" by Edgar Allan Poe and "The Monkey's Paw" by W.W. Jacobs. It argues that "The Tell-Tale Heart" is a better example of horror based on its use of suspense through elements like nighttime setting, immediate murder, and guilt-ridden narrator told from his point of view. In contrast, "The Monkey's Paw" takes place during the day, has wishes that cause a son's death, and lacks the same unsettling point of view. Overall, the document analyzes how these Gothic stories employ setting, themes, and perspective to establish atmosphere and suspense.

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    The document discusses and compares two short stories - "The Tell-Tale Heart" by Edgar Allan Poe and "The Monkey's Paw" by W.W. Jacobs. It argues that "The Tell-Tale Heart" is a better example of horror based on its use of suspense through elements like nighttime setting, immediate murder, and guilt-ridden narrator told from his point of view. In contrast, "The Monkey's Paw" takes place during the day, has wishes that cause a son's death, and lacks the same unsettling point of view. Overall, the document analyzes how these Gothic stories employ setting, themes, and perspective to establish atmosphere and suspense.

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    Compare and Contrast Essay

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    Steeley Baker
    The document discusses and compares two short stories - "The Tell-Tale Heart" by Edgar Allan Poe and "The Monkey's Paw" by W.W. Jacobs. It argues that "The Tell-Tale Heart" is a better example of horror based on its use of suspense through elements like nighttime setting, immediate murder, and guilt-ridden narrator told from his point of view. In contrast, "The Monkey's Paw" takes place during the day, has wishes that cause a son's death, and lacks the same unsettling point of view. Overall, the document analyzes how these Gothic stories employ setting, themes, and perspective to establish atmosphere and suspense.

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    Horror is interesting because of the suspense and how exciting it can


    be. For example, the “The Tell-Tale Heart”, "The Monkey's Paw", “Criminal
    Minds”, “Insidious”, and other horror movies, books, short films, short
    stories all have a form of suspense. “The Tell-Tale Heart” by Edgar Allan
    Poe, is a short story about a crazy man killing an old man because of his
    eye. "The Monkey's Paw" by W.W. Jacobs is also a short story but it is
    about a family that gets only 3 wishes, that is the cause of their son’s
    death. “The Tell-Tale Heart” is a better example of horror than "The
    Monkey's Paw" because of the setting, themes/lessons, and point of view.
    One way that “The Tell-Tale Heart” is better than "The Monkey's
    Paw" is because it has more suspense. “The Tell-Tale Heart” has a better
    example of horror because it takes place mostly during the night time. It
    makes the story more suspenseful for the reader unlike “The Monkey’s
    Paw” which takes place during the day time and also at night. During the
    night time if there's a small amount of light in the room it scares some
    people. In “The Tell-Tale Heart” he only opens the lantern just a little bit so
    a tiny ray of light shines in the old man’s eye. Another thing that Poe does
    in “The Tell-Tale Heart” is he makes the murder happen right away at the
    beginning of the story. At the beginning of the story the narrator waits 8
    days till he kills the old man. These are some of the ways Poe uses
    suspense in his story.
    The theme is one way that helps the author add horror. One way that
    “The Tell-Tale Heart” adds horror is by theme. One example is the theme is
    shown in the title, there's foreshadowing in the title. The foreshadowing in
    the title, it has Heart in it. Tell-Tale heart gives away that there is going to
    be something related to the heart. It relates the theme because it’s giving
    away that it’s a horror story. One way that the author in “The Tell-Tale
    Heart” uses theme is that we can feel guilt. The character is feeling guilty
    because the author makes the character feel like he was really bad. One
    final way the author uses theme to make his horror story better is by the
    use of guilt which makes you confess your sins or actions. In the story one
    way the character feels guilt is when he yelled, “Villians!” I shrieked,
    “Dissemble no more! I admit the deed! - Tear up the planks! - Here, Here! -
    It is the beating of his hideous heart!” (Poe 94). The quote makes him
    sound like he’s crazy. These are a few ways the author uses theme in his
    stories to make it have more detail.
    In the “The Tell-Tale Heart” point of view helps Poe add horror to his
    stories. One way “The Tell-Tale Heart” uses point of view is telling a story
    from a person's point of view. In the story the main character said, he could
    hear everything in heaven, hell, and on earth. This shows how creepy it is
    to use point of view. Another way that Poe adds point of view is we only
    see from the narrator's point of view. His actions are also creepy, he said
    he opened the door on the eighth night to the old man's room. A final way is
    the narrator is crazy in “The Tell-Tale Heart” and in "The Monkey's Paw"
    Mr. White wasn’t. These are some ways that “The Tell-Tale Heart” uses
    point of view.
    Most horror stories are creative stories where the events told in the
    story could really happen in real life. In the “The Tell-Tale Heart” the main
    character kills an old man because of his eye. Where as in “The Monkey's
    Paw” Has a son died a tragic accident and the mother wishes for the sun
    back. These are both good examples of horror, however “The Tell-Tale
    Heart” has a better example of horror. “The Tell-Tale Heart” is a better
    example of horror because of the setting, theme/plot, and point of view.

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