"The Tell-Tale Heart," by Edger Allen Poe, and "The Open Boat," by Stephen Crane

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As I read "The Tell-Tale Heart," by Edger Allen Poe, and "The Open Boat," by Stephen Crane, I was torn between the classic realism in "The Open Boat," and the atypical scenes from "The Tell-Tale Heart." Both stories, however, were very effective in keeping my interest and imagination running.
Stephen Crane gives a sense of realism to "The Open Boat" due to his real life tale of survival of a shipwreck on his way to Havana (Crane, p. 192). The detail of the scenery and waves, and the use of common everyday objects to describe the detail makes the story easier for the reader to pict…