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    Krista Zeock English 1302‚ section .002 Mrs. Dietiker February 22‚ 2013 “The Tell-Tale Heart” Quote of importance: The following selection may be found in Edgar Allan Poe’s short story “The Tell-Tale Heart” and is the focus of this reader-response paper: “It is impossible to say how first the idea entered my brain; but once conceived‚ it haunted me day and night. Object there was none. Passion there was none. I loved the old man. He had never wronged me. He had never given me insult. …

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    Analysis - Like the narrator in Poe’s "The Tell-Tale Heart"‚ the narrator of "The Black Cat" has questionable sanity. Near the beginning of the tale‚ the narrator says he would be "mad indeed" if he should expect a reader to believe the story‚ implying that has already been accused of madness One of Poe’s darkest tales‚ "The Black Cat" includes his strongest denouncing of alcohol. The narrator’s perverse actions are brought on by his alcoholism‚ a "disease" and "fiend" which also destroy his personality

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    The Tell Tale Heart is a suspense short story written by Edgar Allan Poe. The narrator in the story is unnamed neither known its gender‚ but it was believed to be a man. The story begins with the narrator insisting that he’s completely sane‚ but suffering with nervousness which causes over-acuteness of the senses. The reason of his nervousness is an old man’s eye. He admitted that he is afraid of the old man’s eye so he wants to get rid the old man’s life. The narrator explains that the old man

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    October 21‚ 2012 “The Tell-Tale Heart” Our versions of reality are disrupted in “The Tell-Tale Heart” as we might identify with it in many ways we do not acknowledge. Something flickers our inquisitiveness and compels us to follow the narrator through the disturbing labyrinth of his mind. The reader is also able to further question the narrator’s actions in a psychological aspect and possibly see the collapse of the

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    The Tell-Tale Heart In his narrative poem The Tell-Tale heart‚ Edgar Allen Poe tells the story of an insane madman who is in love with an old man’s eye. The story begins with the madman telling us how he loves the old man but wants to kill him because of his eye. The old man’s eye is like none other and resembles a vulture’s eye. And Poe instills his poem with the same despair experienced by the narrator by using characteristics that are typical of gothic literature such as‚ High Emotion‚ Mysterious

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    mykil Hill Analysis of Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Tell-Tale Heart” The Tell-Tale heart story written by Edgar Allan Poe is often viewed by readers as talent and crazy of a mad man. In his story Edgar Allan Poe tells about an obsessed man with the intentions to kill someone. All though the narrator is aware of his insanity‚ the explosive nature of his cruel conspiracy plainly indicates the story of a mad man‚ who is delusional with a crazy way of thinking; over the use of irony‚ imagery‚ and tone

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    brought him to great heights of creativity and the depths of paranoiac despair. Yet although he produced a relatively small volume of work‚ he virtually invented the horror and detective genres and his literary legacy endures to this day. In the Tell Tale Heart the main character‚ the narrator‚ has a problem with an old man‚ the antagonist‚ whom he is living with. The odd thing is that the problem has nothing to do with old man‚ how he acts‚ or even his attitude towards the narrator. It is simply one

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    CLASS DATE Graphic Organizer for Active Reading The Tell-Tale Heart Edgar Allan Poe Pupil’s Edition page 201 Sneak Preview When you watch a movie preview‚ you form ideas about what the movie will be like. You can preview a story in the same way by examining the title and illustrations. In each frame below‚ write an impression that you receive from the title‚ illustrations‚ and opening quotation of “The Tell-Tale Heart.” Tit le ns atio str Illu 1. Write down two questions

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    Andrew Fiddler Professor Esquivel English 1020 15 February 2013 Themes of “The Tell-Tale Heart” Edgar Allen Poe explores the similarity of love and hate in many stories‚ especially “The Tell Tale Heart.” In “The Tell-Tale Heart‚” the narrator confesses a love for an old man whom he then violently murders and dismembers the body and hides the pieces below the floorboards in the bedroom. When the police arrive‚ the narrator appears normal and unshaken by the murder. Later on‚ the man gives in

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    Tell tale heart 1 Read the story ’the tell tale heart’ by Edgar Allan Poe 1 Write a 2 sentence summary of the plot It starts with the narrator talking about how he stalked an old man for many nights until one night he decides to kill him because of his vulture eye‚ (he hides the body parts underneath the floorboard). The police arrive and he then he acts casual as if nothing happened and shows them around the house‚ until he feels guilty and hears the beating of the old man’s heart and confesses

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