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Comparing The Monkey's Paw And The Tell Tale Heart

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Life is not always the easiest thing to deal with so if you could cheat at life, would you? With that being said in the stories by W.W. Jacobs and Edgar Allan Poe: The Monkey's Paw and The Tell-Tale Heart, characters are faced with problems that may lead to a lifetime of misery. In the Monkey’s Paw, an innocent life is taken simply of the greed of a person. Contrary, in the Tell Tale Heart, life is taken because of the physical appearance of an old man, particularly, his eye. In both texts, characters will have to the consequences of their deeds by suffering from regret and despair. How do I know this? The action, theme, and mood are all executed throughout the story by the use of dialogue being the vehicle to move the story

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