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Monkey's Paw Compare And Contrast Essay
The stories Monkey's Paw by W.W Jacobs and The Tell Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe are similar by both being scary and have a plot curve and we read them in class together. Their different by The Tell Tale Heart has the fiction genre and Monkey's Paw is a play/drama . Here are some more similarities and differences. The Monkey's Paw took place in a warm , cozy parlor on a wet and cold night in Laburnum Villa. The story probably set around when it was published in 1902. The Tell Tale Heart took place in a house where the old man lived in 1843. The Monkey’s Paw was also British and The Tell Tale Heart was American.
The Monkey’s Paw character traits were the son was affectionate and a loyal young man of the Whites. The father,
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