Compare and Contrast Paper
Guilt and Regret are powerful forces that can make people act. This shown by characters doing something not good, being scared of what they have done, and changing their behavior in Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allen Poe and the Lorax by Chris Renaud and Kyle Balda.
The first comparisons that I’m going to talk about of these to stories are a character destroying something not good shows guilt and regret. In the Poe story the character kills a man by dragging a man to the ground and slamming a heavy bed over him. “I dragged him onto the floor pulled the heavy bed over him then smiled gaily, the deed was so far done the man was dead”(Poe, 305). After the man kills he digs up a hole and buries him so know one can find him, but the reason the man killed him was because of the eye the old man was staring at him with after the death the person that killed the old man was feeling nervous. Which shows his guilt. For the modern story the man that feels guilty starts by taking down trees for a sweater business that he wants to start. “ Can’t make these sweaters without taking these tree’s down”(Chris Renaud , …show more content…
Now in the Poe story we see that the killer gets nervous when the cops are searching his house and the he confesses to them that he has killed a man and that is why they heard a streak. “ Villains! I shrieked, dissemble no more! I admit the deed – tear up the planks – here, here – it is the beating his hideous heart”(Poe 306). Now for the modern story this man gives the little man a seed to start making tree’s again to change the world what it really was like and stop feeling guilty about what he did. “ Here take this seed and plant a tree so that people see that everything doesn’t have to be electronic and we can start growing tree’s back”(Chris Renaud, Kyle
Guilt and Regret are powerful forces that can make people act. This shown by characters doing something not good, being scared of what they have done, and changing their behavior in Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allen Poe and the Lorax by Chris Renaud and Kyle Balda.
The first comparisons that I’m going to talk about of these to stories are a character destroying something not good shows guilt and regret. In the Poe story the character kills a man by dragging a man to the ground and slamming a heavy bed over him. “I dragged him onto the floor pulled the heavy bed over him then smiled gaily, the deed was so far done the man was dead”(Poe, 305). After the man kills he digs up a hole and buries him so know one can find him, but the reason the man killed him was because of the eye the old man was staring at him with after the death the person that killed the old man was feeling nervous. Which shows his guilt. For the modern story the man that feels guilty starts by taking down trees for a sweater business that he wants to start. “ Can’t make these sweaters without taking these tree’s down”(Chris Renaud , …show more content…
Now in the Poe story we see that the killer gets nervous when the cops are searching his house and the he confesses to them that he has killed a man and that is why they heard a streak. “ Villains! I shrieked, dissemble no more! I admit the deed – tear up the planks – here, here – it is the beating his hideous heart”(Poe 306). Now for the modern story this man gives the little man a seed to start making tree’s again to change the world what it really was like and stop feeling guilty about what he did. “ Here take this seed and plant a tree so that people see that everything doesn’t have to be electronic and we can start growing tree’s back”(Chris Renaud, Kyle