Developing New Perspectives by Comparing and Contrasting: Tell Tale Heart Versus The Landlady
“ Just a Journey leads to a new vista, a short story leads to new understanding” In your own opinion how well do “ Tell Tale Heart “ and “ The Landlady “ justify the above quotation
Reading a story, we can learn the cruel reality of the real world. Since this is a fallen world, it is not realistic to live inside our own shell. It is important for us to be aware of the fact and take precautions even though some stories are fictions and seem to be exaggerated. However, from the fact that writers can create those stories suggests the possibilities of those crimes to be committed. “ Just a Journey leads to a new vista, a short story leads to new understanding” Through “ The Tell-Tale Heart “ and “ The Land lady ,“ we as readers have the privileges to explore the minds of these two great writers and have new understandings in the fields we were not familiar with.
The authors of both stories had done a great job terrifying readers by the tension and suspense they built. The genre of these two stories is horror and mystery which contains the element of murder. “The Tell-Tale Heart” was written in first person narrative which makes the story more vivid and readers are more involved in the process. Poe used the form of confession to explain details so that readers would feel as if they were at the crime scene. The narrator claimed that he was just nervous but not mad. He told the story in a way which he thought could defend his sanity yet he confessed to killing the old man. The advantage of telling a story from the first person point of view is that readers can know author’s thoughts and feelings explicitly. However, this also means reader are left with limited imagination for the story. In the aspect of writing style, the author likes to use short sentences, such as “They heard! – they suspected!” to make the story fast paced and build suspense. The short sentences also make the main character seem irrational.
The Land Lady was written from a third person
Reading a story, we can learn the cruel reality of the real world. Since this is a fallen world, it is not realistic to live inside our own shell. It is important for us to be aware of the fact and take precautions even though some stories are fictions and seem to be exaggerated. However, from the fact that writers can create those stories suggests the possibilities of those crimes to be committed. “ Just a Journey leads to a new vista, a short story leads to new understanding” Through “ The Tell-Tale Heart “ and “ The Land lady ,“ we as readers have the privileges to explore the minds of these two great writers and have new understandings in the fields we were not familiar with.
The authors of both stories had done a great job terrifying readers by the tension and suspense they built. The genre of these two stories is horror and mystery which contains the element of murder. “The Tell-Tale Heart” was written in first person narrative which makes the story more vivid and readers are more involved in the process. Poe used the form of confession to explain details so that readers would feel as if they were at the crime scene. The narrator claimed that he was just nervous but not mad. He told the story in a way which he thought could defend his sanity yet he confessed to killing the old man. The advantage of telling a story from the first person point of view is that readers can know author’s thoughts and feelings explicitly. However, this also means reader are left with limited imagination for the story. In the aspect of writing style, the author likes to use short sentences, such as “They heard! – they suspected!” to make the story fast paced and build suspense. The short sentences also make the main character seem irrational.
The Land Lady was written from a third person