Think about how the different readings through the weeks fit together. Explain what you learned from reading theories, models, and definitions of short stories, and through reading precursors to the modern short story.

Think about how the different readings through the weeks fit together. Explain what you learned from reading theories, models, and definitions of short stories, and through reading precursors to the modern short story. Illustrate these lessons by applying them to Edgar Allan Poe’s short story “The Tell-Tale Heart.”Here are some examples of how this can be accomplished: You can compare “The Tell-Tale Heart” to some of the first weeks’ readings. How is “The Tell-Tale Heart” like or unlike a myth? A story problem? You could explain what the first weeks’ readings led you to expect from a short story, and then explain what you actually found in “The Tell-Tale Heart.” You could build the entire paper around explaining “The Tell-Tale Heart,” using lessons drawn from the first two weeks of readings.