Summary: The Tell Tale Heart

The Tell Tale Heart introduces a narrator who is creeped out by the old mans eye, but he does not know what to do about it. Then the guilt over comes him and he confesses. In The monkeys paw, the White family wanted the monkeys paw to make wishes. Quote1: This example illustrates how the paw works. The paw gives wishes that help people with whatever they need in the story. They only get 3 wishes, and only use the wishes when its very important. For example " I don’t know how the first two were, but the third was for death. That’s how I got the paw."By using this particular quote from Edger Allen Poe's Tell Tale Heart is providing the reader with suspense because it shows how much the narrator hates the old mans eye. So then he waits 8 nights
until he goes into the old mans room and kills him. The narrator then hides the old mans body so he does not get in trouble. As the Author reveals "True!- nervous - very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why will you say I am mad."

Alternatively, both short stories show suspense by the way there thesis is. In the monkeys paw is that the white family gets 3 wishes to wish anything they want and to wish for something when it is important. The Tale Tale Hearts thesis is the narrator wants to kill the old mans eye, but then he waits 7 nights and on the 8th night he kills the old man, then he hides the old man so he does not get in trouble. These 2 short stories show suspense by the way there thesis is and what it shows.