Edyn Bryan Miss Guentzel Language Arts 8C, Per. 1 13 March 2024 Compare and Contrast Essay Which is worse: planning out a brutal murder or feeling no remorse after killing someone? The “Tell-Tale Heart” was written by Edger Allen Poe. The genre is horror fiction. This short story is about a young man that doesn't like the old man's fake eye. The young man stalks the old man while he is sleeping for 7 days straight. The young man plans to kill him because the old man’s eye is weird. After the police searched his house, he felt guilty, and turned himself in. The “Lamb to Slaughter” is written by Ronald Dahl and the genre is horror short stories. In the short story, the wife and husband get into an argument and something happens. She gets super …show more content…
She offers them the lamb leg, they eat it and then the evidence is gone. Although the two stories have many similarities, the differences between them make the crime in “ Lamb to Slaughter” worse. The “Lamb to Slaughter” and the “Tell-Tale Heart” are similar in many ways. Some similarities are the wife in “Lamb to Slaughter” kills her husband which she loves, and in “Tell- Tale Heart” the young-man kills the old-man which he also loves. Another similarity is that both the young man and the wife are both insane. When the old- man sleeps, the young-man watches him, and when he kills him, it was because the old-man had a fake and weird looking eye. When the wife and the husband started fighting she ended it by killing him, also she laughed when Bryan 2 got away with it. Both of the stories have many similarities. Some more similarities are when the wife hides the evidence, she makes sure she cooks the lamb and is very calm to the police. When the young man hides the evidence, he hides it on the floorboards. The young man starts off very confident and then as they investigate he feels guilty. The wife feels no guilt at all after she kills her …show more content…
The wife took only a couple hours to kill her husband and then make the lamb into food. The young man takes 8 days to plan and kill. The younger man kills him by suffocation, and then he chops him into pieces, then puts him into the floorboards. 6. They both hide the evidence. Secondly, the wife feels nothing when she kills her husband. The wife laughed when the police could not find the evidence or even when it happened to her husband. Dahl 6: The young man felt very guilty. When the police were searching his house, he was very confident he was going to get away with his crime. As they continued searching, he kept getting more and more anxious. In conclusion, these short stories have many similarities, however “Lamb to Slaughter” is definitely worse because the wife feels no guilt. The wife and husband got into an argument and her first choice was to kill him. That is a terrible thing to do, and it is even worse because she does not feel guilty about it. In “Tell-Tale Heart” he does feel guilty for killing the old man, so Bryan 3 that is the most important difference. The young man plans the murder and the wife kills as an intrusive thought after an
ending to it. In Edgar Allen Poe’s terrifying short story “The Tell-Tale Heart,” the insane narrator decides to kill the old man because of his eyes. Cuts up the body and hides it. When the cops come, he rips up the floor boards and confesses to the cops. In another story,“Lamb to the Slaughter,” by Roanld Dahl, Pateck
until the right moment to catch it. Now imagine a cat pouncing on a mouse right away, with no plan. Both cats still ended up doing the same thing, but one of the incidents could quite possibly be worse than the other. In the short story, “The Tell-Tale Heart”, written by Edgar Allen Poe, it talks about an old man and his servant. The servant hates the old man because of his eyes. He stalks the old man for eight nights, and then kills him by suffocation. He then dismembers the body and hides it on
Yendy Hernandez Miss Toone English 8C, Per. 3 12 March 2024 Differentiating Homicides Homicide happens everyday and it usually takes time to investigate everything about that murder case. In “Lamb to the Slaughter" by Roald Dahl, a fictional horror story, there is a happy couple and in a matter of minutes one is murdered. A woman who deeply loves her husband finds out that he does not feel the same and takes matters into her own hands (Dahl 2). The husband doesn’t know that he is about to die; his
Language Arts Period 4 March 14, 2024 "Tell-Tale Heart" versus ""Lamb to Slaughter"" Idaho alone has a 2.2% murder rate, meaning 41 people per year. The "Tell-Tale Heart", a gothic/horror fiction short story written by Edgar Allen Poe in 1843, is about the narrator who is haunted by an old man’s piercing blue eyes. He kills the old man and goes insane with guilt. The narrator then confesses to police. Rould Dahl’s short horror fiction story ""Lamb to Slaughter"", written in 1953, is about Mary Maloney