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    Allan Poe‚ with the use adjectives makes a more effective description of the house than the one presented in the movie. In the literary text‚ Edgar Allan Poe‚ creates through a detailed description of the house a gothic mood in the story that provides a gloomy atmosphere in the plot‚ for instance‚ the narrator says “a sense of insufferable gloom pervaded my spirit” (Poe 1)‚ therefore‚ the narrator assumes that the house itself triggers a sense of sadness that invades anyone who steps into it. Furthermore

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    “The Tell Tale Heart” takes place in an old creaky house with wood planks for its flooring. Most of this tale takes place at night‚ with its most intense moments right

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    night‚ and on the eighth such night after the persona’s hand slips off the lamp he was holding‚ he makes the decision to kill the victim and hide his dismembered corpse under floorboards. When the police come inspecting after hearing cries from the house‚ the persona starts hallucinating the sounds of the dead man’s beating heart. The noise eventually gets so loud and persistent that the narrator is driven insane and confesses the murder. These stories are different in multiple respects but do share

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    Human minds are more complex of what we think. Sometimes‚ the control and the stability of ourselves is not on our hands. The Black Cat and The Tell-Tale Heart‚ two short horror stories by Edgar Allan Poe are an examples of that. In this two short stories the reader can see all the elements of a horror Novel. The different genres in the stories‚ like Macabre‚ Uncanny‚ and Supernatural. The way that each narrator justify their behavior and the killing. How their mind works‚ and the characteristic

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    strengths. This text is about the history of this little boy trying to play basketball but‚ his dad doesn’t want him to play‚ he wants him to study a lot a be a good kid in school but‚ after a discussion his son goes out for a walk and he founds an old house and he goes in and found a something that is gonna create a lot of drama .” In the story “the treasure of lemon brown” by Walter Dean Myers‚ the author uses descriptive and figurative language to develop the mood and the characters in the story

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    There was a lot of fear brought to the old man when he thought someone was in the house and had been stalking him. This is stated in the fifth paragraph‚ it says‚ “ Although I chuckled at heart. I knew that he had been lying awake ever since the first slight noise His fears had been ever since growing upon him. He had been trying to fancy

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    There are two substantial settings in The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe. One is the old man shares a house with the narrator where the location and the murder take place from which the narrator tells the story. However‚ for the story‚ the most important setting is within the narrator’s mind where he is very obsessed with the old man. Well he isn’t obsessed with the old man‚ the source of his mysterious obsession is the old man evil eye and that infuriates the narrator because the old man is

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    Burton has made Edward’s appearance in keeping with a character that is antagonistic and evil‚ with scary claw-like hands and a black‚ skin-tight bodysuit. His expression is full of melancholy and anxiety. His mansion is dark and gothic looking‚ a house of horror. It’s broken and old‚ with strange objects held within. The mansion’s location‚ at the top of a steep hill‚ considers its isolation‚ hidden within the clouds. However‚ appearances are deceptive;

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    the McCoughlan clan. It rises over 50 feet into the sky. Clonony Castle was still being lived in until relatively recent times. The castle sits on a rocky outcrop at the SE corner of a bawn. (A bawn is the defensive wall surrounding an Irish tower house being the anglicised version of the Irish word badhún meaning "cattle-stronghold" or "cattle-enclosure".) The main ghost associated with Clonony Castle is that of a man who is surrounded by a strange‚ hazy‚ eerie glow. He stands at the top of the

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    sound might be heard by a neighbor. This makes the story suspenseful and makes the reader want to know more about the neighbors hearing the sounds of the old man yelling. Therefore another example is in (pg : ) the police came into the old man’s house because of the neighbors hearing the yelling from the old man. This really makes the reader anxious of knowing what’s going to happen and the fear of the murderer getting

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