Comparing The Black Cat And The Tell-Tail Heart

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The similarities between the Black Cat and the Tell-Tail Heart is that in the Black Cat the cat was so scared that he would run away from Rob Green from what he did to the cat “deliberately cut one of its eyes from the socket! I blush, I burn, I shudder, while I pen the damnable atrocity”(Poe). In the Tell-Tail Heart the old man's eye “He had the eye of a vulture --a pale blue eye, with a film over it” (Poe) was so big that it bothered him all he wanted to do was get rid of the eye in both these stories they main carectored ended up killing the victim because of an eye and they both eventually both got caught and the cat would always be nice to him and the Tell-Tail Heart the old man was always nice to him never talked bad about him and they

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