The Black Cat Vs. The Tell-Tale Heart

“The Black Cat” vs. “The Tale Tell Heart”

Throughout life, everyone does something that they are not very proud of. Most times you relive or remember what you have done and the guilt of the deed eats away at you. Some things, depending on the extent of how bad they are, can make you feel like you are going crazy because you feel you can’t tell people what you have done. Both stories are written by Edgar Allan Poe. “The Black Cat” is a story about a black cat that basically haunts a man for doing bad things to him. In “The Tell-Tale Heart” a man kills the old man and hides him in the planks in the floor and he thinks he can still hear the beating of his heart, even though he is dead. My claim is in Edgar Allan Poe’s stories “The Black Cat” and “The Tell-Tale Heart” have the same theme but they also have different craft moves.

Both stories are about someone killing someone or something.

“The Black Cat uses suspense and “The Tell-Tale-Heart” uses mood. In “The Black Cat,” the author builds suspense by cutting out the cat’s eye and how the cat acted toward him afterward. It also built up suspense with the fire and the outline of the cat on the wall in the bedroom after the fire. In “The Tell-Tale-Heart, the author just gets straight into the man killing the old man because he can’t handle the eye looking at him anymore.In “The Black Cat” the man kills his cat and his wife. He then starts to drink even more and thinks he is going insane. After finding another black cat he thinks this cat is haunting him. He in turns kills his wife and not feel guilty for killing her. In “The Tell-Tale Heart” the man and not stand the old man’s eye always looking at him. He feels the only way to stop it from looking at him is to kill him. He then feels guilty about it and thinks he can still hear his heart beating, so he tells the police where the body is. They though by hiding the bodies they would get away with it. But guilt got to