After reading “The Tell Tale Heart” (short story) and “I Can Stand Him No Longer” by Ralphael Dumas, tell how the poem and story are alike and different in structure and meaning. Be sure to give examples from each text. Then write which text had the greater impact on you (consider which one you will remember most and why) and explain why.

The greatest gift the sumerians gave the world was the invention of writing. the sumerians were a wealthy people. they needed some way to keep track of what they owned. they began drawing pictures. they used a reed as a pen. they drew on soft pieces of clay. the soft clay was then dried in the sun. the tablet became a permanent record. later, the sumerian drawings changed into wedge-shaped symbols. this kind of writing is called cuneiform. by putting symbols together, the sumerians could write entire sentences.