Comparing The Tell Tale Heart And The Black Cat

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“But Tomorrow I die, Today I would unburthen my soul,”[pg.115]. The author Edgar Allen Poe, Wrote these horror stories titled, The Black Cat, and The Tell-Tale Heart, which took place at night. In the story, The main character, The narrator, Killed the cat and killed the old man and he regretted both of them. You should not kill things you love even if they did something bad to you. First, We'll find out how the setting conflicts with my theme. The setting of both stories was at night. “What added, no doubt, to my hatred of the best, was a discovery, on the morning after I brought it home, that, like Pluto, it also had been deprived of one of its eyes,”[pg.119]. When he had brought the thing he hated home that it had not had one of its …show more content…

The character in both stories is the narrator. In The Black Cat the cat is black and in The Tell-Tale Heart the old man was sleeping. “This latter was a remarkably large and beautiful animal, entirely black, and sagacious to an astonishing degree,”[pg.116]. The cat was large and black animal that he thought was beautiful and astonishing. At first he liked the cat but then he judged the thing he loved and killed it. “He had the eye of a vulture- a pale blue eye, with a film over it,”[pg.81]. He had a very good eye that was pale blue with a film over it. At first the old man was a good friend to him and then he saw the eye and he had hatred on him. If you don't betray things you love and forgive them then bad things won't …show more content…

In The Black Cat he thought the cat was his friend and in The Tell-Tale heart he had spied on the old man. In the second body he killed both the old man and the black cat. In the third the black cat came back and the man heard the beating of the old man's heart again when he thought he was dead. If you kill someone you love you're going to regret it or something bad will happen to you, friends, or

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