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The Adventure Of The Speckled Band Comparison Essay

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In the “The Cask of Amontillado” and “The Adventure of the Speckled Band” I found that short stories help you a lot in life.In these stories the characters face mysterious friends and actions. I like the type of stories that help you know what really happens in life. I will be comparing and contrasting “The Cask of Amontillado” and “The Adventure of the Speckled Band”. Edgar Allan Poe wrote “the Cask of Amontillado” in 1846,however, “The adventures of the Speckled band” was written in 1892 by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The difference of time between the two stories makes it difficult for people to understand how the time passes but still people do not change.

While reading the stories I found differences in the structures.One of those differences were about the language each author used in his story.For instance,Edgar Allan tried to talk using symbols that might seem funny but it has deeper or dreadful meanings. While Conan Doyle wanted to make the story serious to scare and trick the people.Something similar to the language is the way the writer writes the story,which is the story’s writing …show more content…

Perhaps the genre, both stores are gothic fictions which show horror, suspense and mystery. In addition, I find them exciting because they turn to be detective stories that make you feel curious while reading.One of the things that catch the reader’s attention is the mood,tone and feeling in a writing.The authors had the same feeling while writing each story since while reading you feel the hatred and horror in each line. What is more,I think the stories depend on the imagination since, every part has a clue that we should find which makes it thrilling. To dig deeper,I believe the tone in a story reflects the feeling of an author.For instance,maybe each author had his own problem that he could not fix and because of that he preferred writing a story that solves his problem in an imaginary

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