Edgar Allan Poe’s use of the unnamed narrator in the stories The Black Cat and The Tell-Tale Heart creates the effect of mystery. The Black Cat is a short horror story that is written by Edgar Allen Poe in the 1800s. This short story's main character is an unknown man that does not mention his name in the story but does tell about his life. The Tell-Tale Heart is another shorts story that was written by Poe in the 19th century. The story tells about a narrator that is unknown as well, and the tone of the story is very mysterious and creepy. Some differences between the books The Black Cat and The Tell-Tale Heart is that there was a possibility that The Black Cat actually lived. Unlike horror books ones, they're all made up stories that seem to attract readers into reading them. One way that they do it is by making it exciting so it seems like they really lived. Another difference is that the Tell-Tale Heart story had some abnormal and thing that are hard to believe like when the narrator comes several times to the old man's house. However, The Black Cat narrator doesn't really have abnormal or not believable. …show more content…
One similarity that pops up in my mind is that the both stories have unreliable narrator. Another similarity between the two stories is that both of the narrators choose to hide their victims in their homes. Both of the bodies are chopped up and hidden somewhere in the house. However, both of the narrators hear mysterious noises for example, the narrator in the Tell-Tale Heart he hears the beating of the old man's heart, and in The Black Cat, the narrator hears horrible small sounds when he knocks on the wall for the