Topic > Review of the short story "The Tell-Tale Heart" by Edgar Allan Poe

The Tell-Tale Heart is the story of a man who kills a person because of his fear of eye color, he always sees it in the night, when he was to kill him, he woke up and started crying but the narrator stopped and waited for the perfect moment to kill him, when he killed him he slaughtered him but when the police arrived at the house, he blamed himself. At the beginning of the story he said that he is not crazy. Grandfather and His Grandson is about a grandfather Once upon a time there was a very old man who lived with his son and daughter-in-law. The man was so old that his hearing and vision had declined. His hands trembled as he tried to eat. The old man sat in a corner with tears in his eyes trying to eat, his hands shaking. One day he dropped the bowl and it broke on the floor. His wife scolded him and they gave him a wooden plate to eat outside instead. One night they were sitting together and the four-year-old nephew began picking up some pieces of wood. His parents asked him what he was doing. The little boy told his parents that he was preparing a manger so that they could eat outside when his parents were old. The man and his wife were crying. Say no to plagiarism. Get a tailor-made essay on "Why Violent Video Games Shouldn't Be Banned"? Get an original essay The Tell-Tale Heart and the grandfather and his little grandson, one of the similarities is that they are treated badly, they both have mental problems. In the story of the Tell-Tale Heart, the protagonist suffers from paranoia and mental deterioration, the killer's obsession with specific, unadorned entities: the old man's eye and the heartbeat. In the story The grandfather and his little grandson has mental problems, his hands were shaking when he tried to eat and this is a mental problem. The difference between The Tell-Tale Heart and Grandfather and His Grandson is that the protagonist is treated very badly while in The Tell-Tale Heart they treated him normally. Another difference is that in The Tell Tale Heart the protagonist kills someone while in Grandfather and Grandson he doesn't kill anyone. The protagonist of The Tell Tale Heart is afraid of eye color but in Grandfather and His Grandson he has no fear at all. Another is the place where the story develops which is different. In conclusion, we can say that The Tell-Tale Heart and Grandpa and His Grandson have differences and similarities like a similarity that both of them have mental disability and one difference is that in The Tell-Tale Heart he kills someone and in Grandpa and His Grandson, he doesn't kill anyone.