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Comparing The Tell Tale Heart And The Monkeys Paw

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Both of the tales are suspenseful and meaningful, but also end in tragedy. The question is, why? The Monkeys paw ends with the user of the paws son being killed. The similar story was the Tell Tale Heart in which the man becomes a killer and kills the man with the peculiar eye. The cause and effect relationship is in both "The Tell Tale Heart" W.W. Jacobs and "The Monkeys Paw" Edgar Allen Poe, is both characters make a bad choice and end up doing something insensible. What is the reason of the child's death? The father thinks he can control the paw but in reality the paw is controlling him. He wishes for wealth and wealth is what he receives but in the form of a condolence for a death in the family. He then is informed his son died and gets
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