Tell Tale Heart Comparison

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“Tell-Tale Heart” is about man that despises an old man’s eye. Throughout the story he says, he was not mad but the action he takes in the story makes him seem mad. It was a slow paced story; it also was very descriptive and gave off a lot of details. The new version of the story was very fast paced. The original story gave off a very creepy tone. The version that had a greater impact was the original story because it gave off a better tone, it had a very slow pace and was very descriptive, and you could tell what type of mood it was supposed to be.
The first aspect of the story that was different was how the stories ended. In the student version, it ends with the narrator being arrested for murder. “There was no heartbeat but there was the body of the old man we had been looking for. He was cut up inside of the floorboard. We had all the evidence we needed to arrest him for murder”(Student, 1).We didn't’ get to see the conclusion in the original version of the story but in the original it ends it better because it leaves the reader to wonder what could happen after the narrator's dialogue. “Villains!” I shrieked, “dissemble no more! I admit the deed!—tear up the planks!—here, here!—it is the beating of his hideous heart” (Poe,5)!
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In the student version, it gives us background on why they are smiling and it is because that was what they were supposed to do with suspicious characters. “All we have to do is sit and smile and wait for them to calm. So all the while he was screaming and cursing we smiled and chatted and if nothing was going one”(Student.1). The original version displays this better because it uses very descriptive words to show the reader how exactly the police acted. “And still the men chatted pleasantly, and