no pain, no gain

You cannot have a rainbow, without a little rain. The first story is, “The Tell-Tale Heart,”

by Edgar Allan Poe and the second story is, “The Prospector’s Trail,” by Cathy Jewison. In The

Tell-Tale Heart the protagonist is trying to murder an old man for having an evil looking eye and

confesses the murder to the cops. In The Prospector’s Trail the protagonist moves to Yellowknife

to open up an interpretive centre but ends up working with an old man, prospecting and mining

at a dump. The main characters in The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe and The Prospector’s

Trail by Cathy Jewison, invest their precious time into gaining something by taking a loss.

In both short stories both protagonists put too much time and effort to gain something

less than of what they were expecting. In, “The Tell-Tale Heart,” the protagonist murdered a man

and is accompanied by police who were initially suppose to investigate about a scream that

was heard at the time of the murder. The protagonist was waiting long and, “felt himself getting

pale and wished them gone. His head ached, a...