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Comparing 'The Tell-Tale Heart And All Summer In A Day'

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Did you know that 100 people are killed each year by trees? Whether it's by trees falling, or dying from the trees’ pollen, 100 people a year die from trees. Death is a big part of Edgar Allan Poe’s stories, one of his stories, “The Tell-Tale Heart”, follows a man along his adventure of killing his master, leading to a confession based on guilt. Similarly, Ray Bradbury, author of, “All Summer in a Day”, shows how nature will win against technology without the presence of humans. This is best explained in “There Will Come Soft Rains” when a technologically advanced house is destroyed by a single tree. Bradbury and Poe use similes, irony, and symbolism to create compelling short stories by bolding the mood, characterization, and theme. First of all, Bradbury and Poe enhance the mood using similes, …show more content…

The simile compares the eye of the man to the eye of a vulture, which helps better understand the mood of the story. Similes enhances the overall creepy and eerie mood of the story by adding comparisons that are chilling. Also, in “All Summer in a Day” when the sun comes up after seven years, the children “looked at everything and savored everything”. Then, wildly, like animals escaped from their caves, they ran and ran in shouting circles” (Bradbury 4). This simile compares the children to wild animals to create a joyful mood. Comparing the children with excited wild animals shows that similes can further have a positive effect on the mood of the story. To conclude, using similes, comparing one thing with another using like or as, Bradbury and Poe improve the mood in their short stories. Second, Bradbury and Poe use irony, a situation in which one can receive the unexpected, to show how characterization crafts quality short stories. After the speaker had cut up the old man he "smiled gaily, to find the deed so far done. the heartbeat on with a muffled

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