Click Clack And Rattle Bag And The Tell Tale Heart

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How to kill a man? How to create a horrible story? The paper will analyze the similarities and differences in “Click Clack and Rattle Bag” and “The Telltale Heart” in regard to their characters, tone and setting. The characters in two stories have similarities and differences, the characters are described distinctly. The characters in both of the stories tell the stories in the first person, and include many inner activities. In “Click Clack and Rattle Bag”, the man who is the hero of the story, describes his feelings all the time. “I felt responsible and adult.” “I was relieved when the boy said.” In the same way, the hero of the “The Telltale Heart” also have many psychological activities in the process of the story. “IT’S TRUE, yes, I have …show more content…

They heard! I was certain of it.” The characters aren’t developed very much in both of the stories, however, their characteristics are different. The main characters in both of the short story are two people, but the protagonist is developed innocent and the antagonist is unrighteous in “Click Clack and Rattle Bag”, “I reached over and tousled his hair.” “I would have pulled away, then, if I could, but small, firm fingers pulled me forward, unrelentingly, into the dark.” show that the young man wants to take care of the kid, but the kid uses his good looks and tone and finally kills the man. And on the contrast, the …show more content…

The tone of the protagonist in “Click Clack and Rattle Bag” is gentle and kind all the time, ‘ “I can understand that,” I said. “It is a very big old house.” ’ ‘ “I don’t,”I said, trying not to smile.’ , the reader can feel that the young man is good and grateful to take care of the kid. On the contrary, the tone of the protagonist in “The Telltale Heart” is exciting, evil and hypocritical, “why do you say that I am mad? Can you not see that I have full control of my mind? Is it not clear that I am not mad?” “During all of that week I was as friendly to the old man as I could be, and warm, and loving.” “I was now sure of success.”, the reader can feel that the man change his tone of telling the story directly, at the beginning, he is excited about telling his feeling, and then, after he decides to kill the old man and plans to disguise, his tone is evil and hypocritical. Both of the stories describe a person kill another person, but the killers’ tones in these two stories are different. In “Click Clack and Rattle bag”, the killer is the boy, his tone at the beginning is “poor” because he wants to guide the young man to his room so that he can carry out his action(killing). , ‘ “Yes, actually I think you do. It’s because of, I’ve finished my homework, and so it’s my bedtime, and I am a bit scared. Not very scared. Just a bit.” ’ On the contrary, in “The Telltale Heart”, the tone of the killer is

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