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Summary: The Tell Tale Heart
The Tell Tale Heart introduces a narrator who is creeped out by the old mans eye, but he does not know what to do about it. Then the guilt over comes him and he confesses. In The monkeys paw, the White family wanted the monkeys paw to make wishes. Quote1: This example illustrates how the paw works. The paw gives wishes that help people with whatever they need in the story. They only get 3 wishes, and only use the wishes when its very important. For example " I don’t know how the first two were, but the third was for death. That’s how I got the paw."By using this particular quote from Edger Allen Poe's Tell Tale Heart is providing the reader with suspense because it shows how much the narrator hates the old mans eye. So then he waits 8 nights
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