"'Daddys Little Girl'"

After reading "Daddys Little Girl," by Rita Morales and "Murders in Rue Morgue" by Poe I saw both similarties and diffreneces in the way they wrote a detective story. Both stories seemed to have used the guidlines the "How to Write a Detective Story," even though Poes was written years earlier than these guidlines.
After reading both stories I saw many things they had in common. I felt that Rita followed the guidelines well. She, like Poe, was able to make a very suspensful story. Her climax came at just the right time. Like Poe's, it was the kind of climax that made you gasp, not flinch. By this I mean it wasn't a climax that involved phyiscal action. The climax was a well thought out idea. I enjoyed reading the two of these.
While there were some similarties between the two stories I found a lot more diffrences. Rita's stories was straight to the point, but it's understandbale since she was trying to write less than 500 words. Also, she didn't really give descriptions of her characters. She just said they were all related, but I had no idea what their physical appreance was. Poe's story was also a little out there when it came to the ending, Rita's was sad but more realistic. Poe's story also ended up being a complete accident, while Rita's was a well planned out crime of avengence. That was one thing that I didn't really like about Poe's story was that I thought it was some evil man who killed this poor mother and daughter and it ended up being a monkey! I thought it was a clever ending, but it wasn't what I was expecting.
All and all I really did enjoy both these stories. While I felt that these two stories had more diffrences than similarites, I also felt they they were very well written and suspenseful. I really enjoyed Rita's story line, it was very intresting.