In “The Old Nurse’s Story” the tension was built up when Miss Furnivall went to save the baby in the house, which was on fire. ‘My little girls are crying oh, how she is crying’. Here is a sentence showing evidence: ‘ then I noticed that the great bronze chandelier seemed alight though the hall was dim, and that fire was blazing in the vast hearth-place’ and the reaction towards the was ‘I shuddered up with terror, and folded my darling closer to me’.
The Motives in “The Call” of the ghost are that he try’s to persuade Meg to come to the river so that he can drawn her. ‘ He’s going to push me in the river, it looks like an accident?”
The Appearances of the ghost are not much he/she is just a voice on the phone and it makes Meg and Geoff frightened.
The Behavior of the ghost was really calm and for what he/she was trying to say and what was happening and was trying t make more realistic. They way he spoke to Meg and Geoff. “He’s going to kill me” (cold voice).
The Motive of the ghost in “The Old Nurse’s Story” was to attract attention and to make Rosamond scared and panic. Another thing was to draw attention towards the baby, which was in snow.
“The Old Nurse’s Story” the behavior of the ghost was just to play the organ.
In the both stories they cared a lot about each other. The Living characters are described as in “The Call”:
Meg is the most caring and loving through out the story and she’s emotional.
Geoff is self- sacrificing (when he went to the river to see what was really happening) and cunning.
Tom’s just logical in giving advice’s to Meg and Geoff.
Harry is canning and cautious and no his right and wrongs.
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The Living character in described as in “ The Call”:
Rosamond is caring and logical.
Lord Furnivall is mostly tempered.
Grace Furnivall is jealous of Maude Furnivall and selfish.
Hester is logical
Nurse is most caring through out the story and emotional.
Meg and Geoff’s reaction towards the six-phone call are panicking, terrified, ringing the officer and they are too desperate know who is behind theses phone calls.
Rosamond’s reaction to the organ playing is that she gets frightened, freaked out and scared. There is another reaction in “The Old Nurse’s Story” when the baby opens her eyes after staying outside in the snow and they thought he/she was dead, they were surprised and a miracle.
The way “The Old Nurse’s Story” ended was really interesting were the house was on fire and the baby was inside it.
The way “ The Call” ended was that they had a murder to investigate and still don’t know who or what was the voice on the phone to Geoff and Meg. Its like a mystery that still needs solving.
The setting in “The Old Nurse’s Story” is dark with big trees. ‘Windows shutters fast, an hour or more before dark’. ‘Under the holly-trees nursing a dead child’. Most of the setting takes place in the manor house. The setting of weather was cold, snow, frost and winter. ‘I am afraid we shall have a terrible winter’. ‘He played on the stormy winter’. It was the frost and the cold; every wild creature was in its hole’.
The setting in “The Call” was in the office and on a Christmas Eve night. ‘ My job is to see our office is staffed twenty-four hours a day’. ‘Headache for any branch is overnight Christmas Eve’. The next setting was the weather: cold, isolated, foggy and freezing. ‘ Let the icy arms embrace you’. ‘Christ I’m so cold’. ‘Rivers nowhere near freezing over’. ‘ A bad fog down that night’.
In “The Old Nurse’s Story” the language is old and hard to understand because it was written in the Victorian times (wilt thou never forgive).
In “The Call” on the other hand, is much more modern and easy to read understandable. It was written in the 20th century.
There –fore these two stories are a bit similar because they both have a ghostly tale. The time that they were written was the thing that separated the both stories because “The Call” was more modern than “The Old Nurse’s Story”.
In the “The Old Nurse’s Story” the Nurse’s is the slave (19th century). But “The Call” has much change in everything like people. Money wise and language. Basically it more posh (20th century).
I prefer “The Old Nurse’s Story” because it more interesting and enjoyable than “The Call”.
