Compare and Contrast" The Tell Tale Heart" by Edgar-Alan-Poe With "Confession Found In A Prison" By Charles Dickens

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Adam Cunningham 10 C                                                            12/12/2001

Compare and Contrast

“The Tell Tale Heart” by Edgar-Alan-Poe

With

“Confession Found In A Prison”

By Charles Dickens

We have been studying two stories about murder one is called “The Tell Tale Heart” By Edgar-Alan-Poe and the second is called “Confession Found In A Prison” by Charles Dickens. These two stories have many similar things and many different things, which I will discuss.

The narrator in the “Tell Tale Heart” is the murderer in the story he murdered the old man he was living with. The reason for murdering the old man was because the old man had a funny eye. The narrator says, “one of his eyes resembled that of a vulture” he did not murder him for the money we know this because the narrator also says, “for his gold I had no desire”.

The narrator in “Confession Found In A Prison” is also the murderer in the story, he murdered his little nephew he lived with. He murdered the boy because the boy looked at the narrator funnily and if the boy died the narrator’s wife would inherit the boys money his dead parents left to him.

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 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 ...

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