Various authors write on similar topics but use very different techniques. A thoughtful insight on the stories will always reflect their similarity. Some of the ways in which a reader can identify the similarities in two different stories are by evaluating the themes, styles and the plot. Of the stories I have read, the most similar ideas include ‘The Cask of Amontillado’ by Edgar Allan Poe and ‘The Scarlet Ibis’ by James Hurst. The two stories tell the stories of individuals who secretly advance carefully laid plans that end up in a tragic end of a character in the story.
One of the main similarities appears in the plot. In ‘The Cask of Amontillado,’ the narrator is an old man identified as