Cause And Effect In The Monkey's Paw And The Tell-Tale Heart

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Have you ever read the two thrilling horror stories, “The Monkey’s Paw”, and “The Tell Tale Heart”? These two stories both use cause and effect. When using cause and effect, the suspense grows rapidly. “The Tell-Tale Heart” by Edgar Allan Poe and, “The Monkey’s Paw” by W. W. Jacobs show a cause-and-effect relationship that creates a feeling of suspense. In “The Monkey’s Paw”, cause and effect is a big part of the story. In the story a visitor (Morris) gives the monkey’s paw to the Whites family. He warns them of the consequences but nobody listens. Their son Herbert ends up dead in an accident at work. The cause of the events that create suspense in the story is that the Whites didn’t listen to Morris’s warnings of the consequences. The following text supports the cause, ““How do you do it?” he inquired. “Hold it up in your right hand and wish aloud,” said the sergeant-major, “but I warn you of the consequences.”(Jacobs 108) The evidence shows that Morris warned them but they did not listen to him. If this cause did not exist, the events still might have happened. The cause in the text foreshadows the effect that something will go wrong. Similar to how “The Tell-Tale Heart” uses foreshadowing. …show more content…

In the story the narrator sees a blind old man with a hideous evil eye. He hates the eye so much that he murders the old man. The cause that creates suspense is when the narrator plots to kill the old man. The text, “I made up my mind to take the life of the old man, and thus rid myself of the eye forever” (Poe 89) shows the cause in the story. The evidence shows how the narrator plotting to kill the old man creates suspense by making the reader wonder if and how the narrator will kill the old man. The suspense in the story is created by cause and effect by showing how the plan to kill the old man makes the reader more interested in the

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