receiving a ticket stops you from speeding. Fear can be useful‚ but it can also be damaging. A disadvantage of fear is that it can lead to paranoia which then leads to obsession. Obsession is dangerous as seen in the three stories written by Edgar Allen Poe. The first story “Tell-Tale Heart”‚ it’s about a man that obsesses about a creepy eye. The “Pit and the Pendulum” is about a man that’s stuck in a prison and is faced with many extremely difficult obstacles. Finally‚ the “Masque of Red Death” is
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1.) When we first meet Elisa Allen in her garden‚ with what details does Steinbeck delineate her character for us? She is thirty-five‚ with a "lean and strong" face‚ a figure that "looked blocked and heavy in her gardening costume"; her most feminine features are covered‚ hidden from view—she wears a loose dress‚ a heavy apron‚ a man’s hat‚ "clodhopper shoes‚" and gloves. She is also described as full of energy—apparently too much stored‚ unexpressed energy" ". . . even her work with the scissors
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The Tell- Tale Heart By: Edgar Allen Poe There is a thin line that separates sanity‚ and those who are lacking it but to those few who are insane‚ do they consider themselves so? In this story‚ it tells the story of a house keeper and care taker of a elderly man who lacks in the areas of vision and hearing. This care taker though is driven to kill the old man‚ why? Because he claimed the old mans injured eye‚ being pale white‚ and deformed‚ drove him to slay the old man. He even shows a hint of
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Is it possible for someone to be normal one day‚ and then slowly shift to becoming mentally insane with little explanation? In his short story “The Black Cat”‚ Edgar Allen Poe believes this to indeed be possible. The story begins with the narrators back story‚ where he is sane and happy. As the story progresses‚ the narrator shifts to a very unstable state of mind‚ in which he performs gruesome and evil deeds making the reader wonder…what drove him to be like this? Through his crazy actions and
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Granddaughters‚ by Paul Gunn Allen‚ she provides background information pertaining to Native American history and culture. The purpose of this preface is to offer the knowledge necessary to understand the stories. She achieves this goal with the employment of the rhetorical strategies pathos and reference to authority. Allen strongly utilizes pathos. Her use of vocabulary conveys an extremely negative perception of the Anglo-American interactions with the Native Americans. Allen initially describes a road
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The Importance of Point of View in The Black Cat Point of view is a very important aspect of The Black Cat. The main character tells the story to the reader from his first person point of view. You have a good feel for the story because you have the first person narration. As you read into the story it comes apparent however that the narrator telling the story is not a reliable interpretation of the details around him. You have a good feel for his emotions and the events of the story‚
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How does Allen Curnow convey his struggles with the writing process? As a journalist and a poet Allen Curnow might sometime suffers from lack of interests‚ inspirations and creations towards his job and project and this struggles are vividly convey in the poem “Continuum”. He might have struggles in finding new ideas and muse for his writing process. The poem “Continuum” might be an allegory for the process of him writing the poem and the continuity of poetic inspiration. The poem might be implying
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Have you ever watched a movie and sat at the edge of your seat? This is the human body’s response to suspenseful entertainment. How it is done you ask? Well I can for sure tell you that the writer definitely has a gift. There’s much that is involved when creating a suspenseful atmosphere. The author must create an intense setting. For example‚ “I was alone or so I thought‚ in the dark cemetery. I could see my breath as I ran to get out‚ but I fell into a hollow grave‚ where I came eye to eye with
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A nameless person clarifies that he is and was very nervous‚ yet is not and was not insane. Rather‚ the storyteller has a “disease” which turns every one of his senses‚ particularly his hearing‚ extremely sensitive. To show that he is not insane‚ the storyteller shares an occasion from his past. The narrator likes the old man and does not have anything against him. The only thing that shakes him is his dreadful eye‚ which is “a pale blue eye‚ with a film over it” (Poe). Symbolically the eye means
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Edgar Allen Poe ’s "Hop Frog": The Transcendence Of Frogs and Ourang-Outangs "Hop-Frog!‚ I will make a man of you." In Edgar Allen Poe ’s short story "Hop Frog‚" the title character Hop- Frog is able to transcend the limitations of his physical body‚ in ways the King and his seven ministers are unable. "Hop-Frog" has multiple examples of the transcendence of man‚ and the inability of man to transcend. The most prominent of these points are: 1. By overcoming the limitations of his‚ Hop-Frog
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