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    are Edgar Allan Poe and Ray Bradbury in their stories‚ “The Tell-Tale Heart”‚ and “The Pedestrian.” Edgar Allan Poe uses suspense in his story‚ “The Tell-Tale Heart” when the old man the narrator is trying to kill wakes up and does not go back to sleep. “I had my head in‚ and was about to open the lantern‚ when my thumb slipped upon the tin fastening‚ and the old man sprang up in the bed‚ crying out-“Who’s there?” (Poe‚ 356). This tells you how he adds suspense because after this happened‚ they were

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    Tell Tale Heart and The Black Cat. The two short stories that I have chosen by Edgar Allan Poe are The Tell Tale Heart and The Black Cat. These two stories in particular have many things in common as far as technique goes‚ but they do have some significant differences between the two. In this paper I will try to compare and contrast these two short stories and hopefully bring something to the readers attention that wasn’t there at first. One of the main differences in

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    psychologist‚ someone that readers and patients like Dora should be able to trust. However‚ as one reads Sigmund Freud’s Dora: An Analysis of a Case of Hysteria‚ one starts to draw more connections between the narrator of Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Tell Tale Heart”‚ a proven unreliable narrator and Freud as a person‚ quite possibly unreliable as well. For me‚ reading the two works brought to mind Queen Gertrude’s oft-quoted phrase‚ “The lady doth protest too much‚ methinks” from William Shakespeare’s Hamlet

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    Character Analysis – “The Tell-Tale Heart” “The Tell-Tale Heart” is a gothic fiction short story written by Edgar Allen Poe. It follows the tale of a crazed Killer‚ as he plots the demise of the old man he lives with. He is mentally and physically ill‚ and cannot seem to tell the difference between the ‘real’ and the ‘unreal’ aspect of the story. Driven by obsession‚ and the constant denial of being a ‘madman’‚ the character proves to be a perverse‚ calculating and attentive character whose morals

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    to writing. “The Tell-Tale Heart”‚ “The Fall of the House of Usher”‚ and “The Pit and the Pendulum” are only three of his numerous works. Within these three stories there are deeper meanings that can be brought about through historical criticism and eco-criticism. “The Tell-Tale Heart” holds a story that is based off of one term‚ the “evil eye”‚ that has a deeper meaning than some may realize‚ making it a perfect study for historical criticism. “The Fall of the House of Usher” tells a sad and haunting

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    that God put in people so that they may recognize when they do something wrong. Guilt is when a person believes or realizes that he or she has violated his or her own standard or moral conduct and feels responsible for that violation. In "The Tell Tale Heart" the main character murdered his neighbor because he believed that his neighbor had a vulture eye‚ and it drove him mad. After murdering his neighbor‚ he cleverly hid the body under his floorboards believing that no one would ever know. Shortly

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    not be taken lightly‚ and the murderer should be punished. If the man is insane‚ he should be in an asylum. In “The Telltale Heart”‚ the narrator kills an old man because of his eye. Murder is always terrible‚ but the motive for this murder is confusing. Most people would assume that this man is insane‚ but there are reasons that will prove he is not. This man is guilty of murder because there is no possible way that an insane man could be as intelligent as he was in executing his plan. During the

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    The Tell-Tale Heart‚ by Edgar Allen Poe‚ is a short story that was about a narrator telling their process of the murder of an old man because of his eye‚ but it never specifically stated what the narrator’s gender was. Maybe it was a female‚ since there were many clues that support this claim‚ such as the narrator being a housekeeper for the old man‚ this could explain why the murder was very clean and why she had access to his home in the first place‚ and because she was a female‚ the police officers

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    Christen Salley Jonathan Purkiss English Composition II 24 October 2011 Annotated Bibliography Ki‚ Magdalen Wing-chi. "Ego-Evil and ’The Tell-Tale Heart ’." Renascence: Essays on Values in Literature 61.1 (2008): 25+. Literature Resource Center. Web. 24 Oct. 2011. This article discusses the comparison of the eye in Edgar Allen Poe’s “A Tell-Tale Heart‚” and how it relates to ego. Another comparison is also made to his similar short story “The Black Cat.” The writer states‚ “In "The Black Cat"

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    Kids of Middle School Should to Read Tell Tale Heart The Tale Tell Heart is one of the best books I read in middle school and is written by one of the greatest writers of the 18th century.Tell Tale Heart is based on a story about a man killing an old man because of his eye.At the end‚the narrator managed to hide the old man’s body‚and later on he confessed to the police because he heard the heartbeat of the old man.I believe theTell Tale Heart is apropriate for middle school kids

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