particular situations. The character's response in the two short stories I have chosen is the

reason I chose them. In Jack London's "To Build A Fire" and Edgar Allen Poe's "The

Tell-Tale Heart" the character's reaction to each situation leads the reader to read more to

find out what happens next. It is interesting to read a story and not be able to predict

what the character will do in a given situation because it captures the reader's interest and

spurs them on to read more. Along with the suspense, the character's reaction in each

situation in these two stories determines the outcome of the overall story. The character's

response to each relating situation builds on each other, creating a domino effect.

In the "Tell-Tale Heart" the main character is a crazed madman, who is also the

narrator of the story. He begins the story by trying to convince the reader he is not mad,

but nervous, very nervous. He tries to prove he is not mad by how clever he plans out the

murder of the old man he lives with. He decides he wants to murder the old man to rid

himself of the old man's pale blue vulture eye because it sends chills up and do

things of life, but only in the things, and not in the significance" (London 118). The man

was never kinder to the old man than during the whole week before I killed

degrees of frost and with a dog as his only companion. "He was quick and alert in the

the story. The reader can anticipate that something will definitely happen to this man. It

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