Short Story Essay
Introduction
I am going to be going through two short stories and then writing a short conclusion at the end comparing the two stories showing the differences. The two stories are the "landlady" and "the speckled band" they are both murder stories, murder stories are so popular these days because I think that people get gripped and addicted to the stories as they read on. My favourite murder story is probably Jonathan Creek because the story lines are so good. The features of a traditional murder story are the characters in it like the pretty woman (next on the murder list), the detective and the murderer. Someone reading a murder story tends to expect that the murder is a mystery and a detective has to try and find the murderer.
This part of the essay I'm going to be writing about the short story the landlady so all my answers refer to the landlady in less it is stated. The landlady is about a landlady who kills her visitors you have to work out if he dies or not but we assume he does, we are given hits and clues not explanations telling us Billy weaver has died.
The story is written in 1959 and it affects the style because of the amount of technology. But you can tell that the story is a twentieth century short story as the language used is so modern for example "dame" this is a American influence on the story. The transport and items in the story are also modern like in the speckled band they just turn up to places they don't know anything about. Billy goes to bath to stay in a hotel but he ends up in an old women's bed and breakfast house, which he says he got dragged into. He sees a sign saying "bed and breakfast" and he says "each word was like a large black eye staring at him through the glass, holding him, compelling him, forcing him to stay where he was and not to walk away from that house". He goes to the B&B not knowing that the woman is going to kill him by poisoning him. There is a narrator telling us the story so there isn't a detective, so we have to act as a detective and you can pick up clues during the story.
Introduction
I am going to be going through two short stories and then writing a short conclusion at the end comparing the two stories showing the differences. The two stories are the "landlady" and "the speckled band" they are both murder stories, murder stories are so popular these days because I think that people get gripped and addicted to the stories as they read on. My favourite murder story is probably Jonathan Creek because the story lines are so good. The features of a traditional murder story are the characters in it like the pretty woman (next on the murder list), the detective and the murderer. Someone reading a murder story tends to expect that the murder is a mystery and a detective has to try and find the murderer.
This part of the essay I'm going to be writing about the short story the landlady so all my answers refer to the landlady in less it is stated. The landlady is about a landlady who kills her visitors you have to work out if he dies or not but we assume he does, we are given hits and clues not explanations telling us Billy weaver has died.
The story is written in 1959 and it affects the style because of the amount of technology. But you can tell that the story is a twentieth century short story as the language used is so modern for example "dame" this is a American influence on the story. The transport and items in the story are also modern like in the speckled band they just turn up to places they don't know anything about. Billy goes to bath to stay in a hotel but he ends up in an old women's bed and breakfast house, which he says he got dragged into. He sees a sign saying "bed and breakfast" and he says "each word was like a large black eye staring at him through the glass, holding him, compelling him, forcing him to stay where he was and not to walk away from that house". He goes to the B&B not knowing that the woman is going to kill him by poisoning him. There is a narrator telling us the story so there isn't a detective, so we have to act as a detective and you can pick up clues during the story.
