Do you like the feeling of suspense? Suspense draws us in and makes us want to go on, to find out what is going to happen. Many authors use suspense to urge readers to continue reading. In the stories "The Tell-Tale Heart" and "The Monkey's Paw" the authors use cause and effect to create suspense for the readers. What cause and effect relationships happen in “The Monkey’s Paw”? In the story, the White family obtain an enchanted monkey’s paw when they have Sergeant-Major Morris over to their house, and he explains to them that the paw is cursed, but they take it anyway. They then wish for two hundred pounds, and later get it, because their son had an accident at work and passed away. The monkey’s paw always grants the person who owns it what they ask for but often in different ways than …show more content…
In the story, the narrator is staying with an older man who has, what he calls,”his Evil Eye.” The narrator has been driven mad by the old man’s eye and has decided to kill him so he no longer has to fear it. In the story he goes into the man’s room every night and the night when he finally kills the old man, the police come but the narrator is calm at first until he thinks he hears the old man’s heartbeat. He says that he feels the police know and wonders why they are staying so long and hears what he thinks is the man’s heart beating. “Yes! Yes, I killed him. Pull up the boards and you shall see! I killed him. But why does his heart not stop beating?! Why does it not stop!?”(Poe 94). In the story, the narrator keeps saying that he isn’t mad and yet this clever man gives everything away because he thinks he hears the man’s heart still beating. Because of his madness, he killed the old man, which led to the police coming, and then because he heard the man’s heart he revealed what he had done. Again, this story leads from one thing to another yet still is full of