The Landlady Vs Tell Tale Heart Essay

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The “Landlady” and “Tell Tale Heart” are both short stories that give you a lot of detail and suspense that draws you into the book and gives you the want to read more. “It is impossible to say how the first idea entered my brain; but once conceived, it haunted me day and night.”(Found on page 201 ) This is a sentence from the short story “Tell Tale Heart”. In the beginning of the story you can tell there is something wrong with this man. “ Billy Weaver had traveled down from London on the slow afternoon train.”(Found on page 170) This sentence is the beginning sentence from the short story “The LandLady”. This short story starts out giving you a picture in your mind of what is happening and what kind of actions might take place in the beginning of the story. If you like to read stories that involves some kind of crime …show more content…

When the author first introduces you to the women running the Bed and Breakfast place, she was very good at putting up a front and being very welcoming to Billy. This story is similar to what your parents might say, never go into a person’s house if you don’t know them. In this short story the author is the narrator of the story. In “The Landlady” there is a lot of foreshadowing, which is giving you a quick preview of what is coming next in the story. “The Landlady” and “Tell Tale Heart” are both stories that are easy and fun to read. Both stories are suspenseful that draws you into the book with the want to read more, these stories can be strange and creepy but at the end it will be worth the read. Both of these stories end with a cliffhanger which allows you to use your imagination of how the story would end. These two stories are both short stories which is only a few pages long. “Tell Tale Heart” and “The Landlady are good stories with the perfect amount of suspense that makes you want to read

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