Monkey Paw In The Tell Tale Heart

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The one of the causes of the feeling in “The Tell-Tale Heart” would have to be the guy whole had a vulture like pale blue eye that did not really insult anybody. And one of the things that caused different feelings in “Monkey Paws” would have to be when a few guys were walking and started to think about the stuff going on around them. The monkey paws is a story about A few guys going through many different things in same part of life. These people are Mr. White and his son and other people doing certain things on a cold wet night. This was in a forest a long time ago those certain things started to happen when they both were in the forest would have to be the people that they had to deal with people really were not the same as right now as

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