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Poe Test
After reading some of Poe's work, I felt that two of his best pieces were "A Tall-tale Heart" and "The Cask of Amontillado." They weren't exactly the same, but they had the same general idea. In both stories the main character goes a little bit insane and kills somebody. They do not murder the person the exact same way or for the same reason. In "The Tell-Tale Heart," the main character suffocated the other man because his eye was driving him crazy; while in "The Cask of Amontillado," the main character chained the other man up in the vaults and left him to die, just because he had insulted the main character.
Throughout both stories the characters develop pretty much the same way. In the beginning, they both appear basically normal. But while the stories progress they both seem to become more and more insane. At the end of both stories is the peak of both characters insanity, and they are very insane. The peak of the insanity in "The Tell-Tale Heart" is on page......

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