Compare And Contrast Tell A Tale Heart Short Story

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Have you read or heard of the two short stories that are called The Tell a Tale Heart or the Short story that is called called There Will Come Soft Rains. They are both short stories written by authors with different writing styles that are quite unique. Both stories were very different written by very different authors The Tell a Tale Heart was written by the author Edgar Allan Poe. The other story’s author that wrote the story There Will Come Soft Rains was named Ray Bradbury. The Authors both use quite unique writing styles, but they are very different types of writing style. They both are in different genres one is a horror story and one is a Sci-FI. Both of these stories are quite different, but also the same as they are very interesting …show more content…
This story is a short story which is happens to be placed the the Sci-Fi genre. It is a story about where there was an anomaly where there was a nuclear explosion and all the people have gone missing , but there is still life but it is very little and scarce. This story takes place in the future and there is allot of new , interesting technology lying around . The house is automated and the house will continue its norman chores ,such as making food cleaning etc…. The dog of the family comes to the door the house locks down , but then realised what it is. It is let in starving later dies there is no emotion for the dog at all the corps is cleaned up like nothing happened. There is no urgency or suspense like justice or anything that is like that manor. This is some of the things the make the short story There Will Come Soft Rains so unique when it comes to other …show more content…
In the short stories There Will Come Soft Rains written by Ray Bradbury was good over all. The only thing that would make it better would be if there was a little more background behind the house or the family or even who or what killed everything. In the short story The Tell A tale Heart which was written by the author Edgar Allan Poe in this case this was a very great book in this short story the thing that would be to put some background or where the story is being told just like the other story. It comes down to which story was a more interesting, more enticing, more compelling, or just a better story in general. The better book in this case had to be the short story The Tell A tale Heart which was written by the author Edgar Allan Poe. It felt more emotion it kept the reader wanting to go on and on. You should read both short stories to find out for yourself which story do you think is

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