The reasons for the murders are similar because the victim is looking at the narrator or murderer funnily and the victims are similar because they both live with the narrator or murderer.
The speed of deciding to murderer the victim in “Confession Found In A Prison” took weeks and in “The Tell Tale Heart” it took days. The murderer in “The Tell Tale Heart” spent the nights leading up to the murder practising opening the bedroom door with out a sound, he spent hours pushing the door open bit by bit.
When the narrator in “The Tell Tale Heart” had murdered the old man he cut him up into pieces and hid him under the floorboards of the bedroom he murdered him in.
He murdered the old man at night in the bedroom the victim was sleeping in.
The murder happen by the narrator frightening the victim and pulling him of the bed and pulling the “heavy bed over him” after he killed him he “smiled gaily to find the deed so far done”.
After the narrator of “A Confession Found In A Prison” had murdered his nephew, he buried him in the garden at night.
The narrator attempted to murder his nephew by pushing him into the stream, but this did not work because his nephew saw the narrator’s reflection in the lake when the narrator was behind him so the nephew ran. The next thing the narrator says is “the next I saw was my own naked sword in my hand, and he lying at my feet stark dead, dabbled here and there with blood”. What I think this means is after the boy ran the narrator chased him and stabbed him repeatedly I also think this happened on the lawn.
The way the victims are hidden is similar because they are both in the place were they were killed but the way they are killed is different because one was stabbed and one was suffocated or crushed.
The truth comes out in both of the stories, in “Confession Found In A Prison” blood hounds find the body, he said “I saw dogs tearing the earth and throwing it up into the air like water”, the next thing he says is “I fell upon my knees and with chattering teeth confessed the truth and prayed to be forgiven”. When he was in prison he wrote a letter to the police or his wife explaining how and why he committed the crime.
In “The Tell Tale Heart” a neighbour of the victim heard a scream so the neighbour reported the scream to the police and the police went to the house of the victim. The police went in the house and had a look around they were quite satisfied that the scream was nothing, so in the bedroom of the murder the officers were having a friendly chat with the murderer when the murderer went mad and confessed. The murderer went mad because he could hear a beating and the beating got loader and loader until he could not take no more he thought the beating was the old mans heart but it was not he imagined it. I know he imagined it because he says “and yet the officers heard it not”. When he confessed he shrieked “I admit the deed!” then he said, “tear up the planks! Here, here!” he showed the officers the body.
The way the truth came out in both stories is different in “Confession Found In A Prison” the murderer confessed in a letter in prison. In the other story “The Tale Tell Heart” he confessed in the room of the murder to the police.
When the murderer in “The Tale Tell Heart” was caught he was not sorry for killing the old man. He says to someone after the murder when he was caught “hearken! And observe how healthily – how calmly I can tell you the whole story” this suggest he was not sorry for the murder.
When the murderer in “Confession Found In A Prison” was caught he was also not sorry for the crime but was sorry for being caught when he was caught he fell on his knees and prayed to be forgiven this means he was sorry he was caught.
The attitude after the murders are similar in one way and different in another they are both proud and not sorry for the murder but the murderer in “Confession Found In A Prison is sorry for being caught.
From studying these two stories I think that they are similar to one another.