The lights flickered, a shadow appeared and disappeared quickly signaling Jonathan to run. Just as he was about to break into a sprint a face jumped in front of him and bit his neck. Just like that Jonathan was never seen again. The eerie mood and tone in the story is similar to the two stories, The LandLady written by Roald Dahl, a story about a young man who was compelled to stay at an Airbnb and the Landlady was a serial killer who had also killed two other young gentlemen each a year apart from each other. The other story is, A Telltale heart written by Edgar Allan Poe, this story is about a man with a vulture eye, the narrator in the story wants to kill this man because of his eye, so he does. The two authors establish the mood or tone …show more content…
In The Landlady, Roald Dahl uses a very different style of writing to establish the mood. When writing the dialogue for the old lady as she was talking about the past visitors he constantly uses the word was and other past tense words. For example, in the story, it states “no, I don’t think they were famous. But they were extraordinarily handsome, both of them, I can promise you that. They were tall and young and handsome, my dear, just exactly like you.” In this quote, the old lady constantly uses the word were when describing her past two guests. In the story A Telltale heart The author uses a lot of words that serial killer uses. He wants the guy dead period end of discussion. Inn the story the narrator says, “Now this is the point. You fancy me mad. Madmen know nothing. But you should have seen me. You should have seen how wisely I proceeded --with what caution --with what foresight --with what dissimulation I went to work! I was never kinder to the old man than during the whole week before I killed him.” as you can discern from this part of the story the type of words that are used in the quote can allow the reader to allude that the rest of the story is not going to be about a walk in the