"The Tell-Tale Heart" by Edgar Allan Poe

I have finished my book. I really enjoyed all three stories. They were a different type of story in comparison to what I usually read. They were more about mystery, madness and death. All of them included death and some form of mental illness. I did find all three of them very unique and really interesting to read. 

The Fall of the House of Usher was especially scary and twisted. It was about a man suffering from a mental illness who called his friend to help him through his last few weeks of life. The friend, when he first entered in the House of Usher, noticed a very large crack in the house's roof. He spent a few days with the mentally ill person: they spent some time painting and reading stories. One day the man told the visitor that his sister had died and that they needed to put her in a coffin and leave in the family cell at the bottom of the house. They did just this. Then one night, the visitor heard some strange sounds and couldn't get to sleep. The mad man came into his room in a completely deranged state so the friend read a story to him. But while he was reading he could still hear extremely strange sounds. Half way through the story the sister entered the room, driven crazy by disease as well as being locked away in a cell for days. The story ends with the visitor running away from the house and just as he turns round he sees the house collapse. 

The last story, the cask of Amontillado, was about two men who were good friends but one of them wanted revenge as he thought the other had insulted him. He conned him into going down into a wine cellar while he was drunk and chained him into one of the caves deep, deep down and left him there for good. 

In conclusion, I found all three stories very interesting and I really enjoyed reading this book. 

The curious incident of the dog in the night-time

I have read about 150 pages so far and it is a very interesting book, and i am enjoying how the boy can not lie about most things, like when the police asked him why he was holding the dog, and he said because it was dead. Anyway i am looking forward to the rest of the book.

The Great Gatsby pt2

The book starts off with the narrator, Nick Carraway, introducing himself as the narrator of the story and by speaking of himself generally. Nick sets the scene for us in the fictional towns of East and West Egg; he also introduces some characters of the book: his cousin Daisy Buchanan, her racist husband Tom Buchanan, and a friend of Daisy's, Jordan. The narrator also briefly mentions the protagonist of the story, Jay Gatsby, simply by stating that his personality is "gorgeous". From his description Gatsby seems to represent the city of New York (so all that Nick dislikes) but despite those traits, Carraway admires Gatsby.

"The Tell-Tale Heart" by Edgar Allan Poe

In this book there are three short stories. The Tell Tale Heart, the Fall of the House of Usher and the Casket of Amontillado. I have finished the first one. It was quite short (8 pages) and quite different but very good. The narrator remained anonymous through out the story and it was basically about him wanting to kill an old man who lived in his house as he did not like his eye. It scared him so he decided to go into his room every night for a week and shine one singular ray of light on it. The whole way through this week the narrator assures us that he is not insane although he clearly is not stable at all. By the eighth night he accidentally woke the old man up and knew then that it was time to kill him. So he did. He put him on the ground and then turned the bed on to him so that it crushed him. The narrator quickly hid his parts under the floor boards. There was then ring at the door and the police came into the house.They sat down in the very same room that the dead man was in, and had a casual conversation. The narrator became more and more nervous and felt a ringing in his ears and thought that he could hear the heart of the old man thumping underneath the floor boards. At the end of the story he admitted everything to the police and told them the location of the man.

I found this story very interesting although a bit disturbing. Can't wait to read the next ones!

The Great Gatsby pt1

I have just started reading The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald; it is a book that I've always been meaning to read but never actually got around to it so here I go. I really enjoyed the movie version and have heard even better things about the book (as per usual) so I'm quite excited to continue. As most of you might already be aware of, it is a story of this mysterious man living in a fictional town on Long Island during the Roaring Twenties. I look forward to advancing in the novel and keeping you updated throughout it all.