In Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart" and Updike's "A & P" the main characters, a crazed man as the narrator Sammy a supermarket clerk use a detailed description to make the reader feel what is taking place. The authors use different narrative styles, such as word or sound repetition to illustrate the events. The way in which Poe uses repetition of sounds and descriptive words such as "louder and other details" makes the reader pat attention to the more important and significant parts of the passage. Updike's "A & P" is written in s uch detail that it includes every aspect of the supermarket so the reader can have a different sense of being in the story. Updike adds key details such as the description of the girls' features or the other one girls' chin or "can", which makes his writing style unique. The writing style of an author is a very personal form of literature that reflects the writers and their characters and in this case the repetition and description of details used!

and by these writers makes them prolific and well-known authors.

Edgar Allan Poe is a writer for the centuries. He was the first American writer to have his works looked at and fascinated peo

In today's society John Updike has become a household name to Americans. Updike uses a very specifically detailed way of describing his thought and the events that take place in his stories. In the story of "A & P" Updike's character Sammy is a young man growing up working as a clerk in a supermarket. The story is shown through the eyes of Sammy. Some of the writings that show his narrative style are, "She was a chunky kid, with a good tan and a sweet broad soft-looking can with those two crescents of white just under it, where the sun never seems to hit, at the top of the back of her legs"(p 608), this line is sounds as if it came straight out of the average teenage boy's mouth. Secondly "and a tall one, with black hair that hadn't frizzed quite right, and one of these sunburns right across under the eyes, and a chin that was too long" (p 608), shows how young men see certain features of the opposite sex and how they can notice the finest details. Also Updike's character !

ple all across the globe. His short stories and poems were known for detail and mystery that intrigue readers from Europe as well as the United States to acquire his works. In one of his best-known stories "The Tell-Tale Heart" Poe's usage of descriptive narrative is very helpful in making the reader understand the mood he is trying to set and get a feel for what is taking place during the story. The psychotic ill-mannered narrator in this story states, "Oh, you would

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