I am talking about the Falling House of Usher and the Taken Over House. It is two stories with a similar plot. There are ways that they are the same, and ways that they are different. Both stories have a brother and a sister. In both stories, a supernatural event happens. The Falling House of Usher is about two siblings (a brother and a sister). The brother thought that his sister had died. With this thought, he decided to put her in a coffin and screw it together. He then locked it in a vault. A few days passed and he heard his sister's voice over these days but never said anything until one day he finally admitted to hearing her voice. In paragraph 46 it says, “I hear it, and have heard it.We have put her living in the tomb.” By that time it …show more content…
He told his sister what had happened and they decided that it was best to stay on one side of the house. Days went by as normal after that until they heard the noise on the side or the house that they were in. So then they left the house and threw the key down the sewer. Both stories take place in a spacious house. In the “ Falling House of Usher ” in paragraph 2 it says “ Nevertheless, in this mansion.” In the "House Taken Over" in paragraph 1 it says “ We like this house because, apart from it being old and spacious.” Another way that they are alike is that both houses got taken over. One way that they are different is that in the Falling House of Usher, the house was falling apart. In paragraph 5 it says “Perhaps the eye of a scrutinizing observer might have discovered a barely perceptible fissure, which, extending from the roof of the building in a zigzag direction, until it became lost in the sullen waters of tarn.” Another way that they are different is that in the Taken Over House they did not know what was in their house. One way that they are the same is that both stories have a brother and a sister in them. In both stories, they lived in spacious