...do you think a story about killing is appropriate? would you let your children watch the movie? we just read a story about the tell-tale heart it is by an author named edgar allen poe he was a man with one eye and he was stabbed and killed by a man and edgar was put in the floor. i strongly believe that we should not read this story. I think that it is innapropriate because it showes blood in play i would not let my kids watch it because it is innapropriate.the reason why i think it is not to be allowed at school is because of how i seen the play when the man had to kill the old poor man for no reason and all the blood i had seen. for instance i went and seen a play about it and i seen the blood on the knife when he stabbed and killed the...
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...The Tell-Tale Heart (Poe 691-695) by Edgar Allan Poe has stood the test of time as one of the most popular short stories in American literature and is still read in almost every educational institution in the country today. In this written discourse we will uncover the reason this is so. Poe intends to capture his readers’ attention and then employee psychological tactics that will play on your emotions in only a very short amount of time. Not stopping there he then uses a tactic of letting you believe that this could be possible and this could happen to me or someone I know. While all of this is happening Poe decides to let you inside the mind of what it is like to be a deranged killer who has serious psychological issues. When fist diving...
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...The Tell-Tale Heart Edgar Allan Poe is the author of the short story, “the tell-tale heart”, which he wrote in 1842. The whole story takes place in an old man’s house, mainly in the bedroom, in approximately 1842 as that is when the story is written, perhaps a bit earlier. The story is written in first person and therefore making this narrator unreliable. A first person narrator cannot be omniscient. Another reason for the unreliability of the narrator is the fact that he is mad. He tries to deny this, even prove to us, the readers, that he is perfectly sane; this is in fact the reason why he ‘chose’ to tell us this story. In this story we are introduced to the owner – who is referred to as “the old man” by the narrator – of the house. This old man has a pale, blue eye, which the narrator thinks resembles that of a vulture. He calls it “the Evil Eye”. The short story starts with an introduction of the story we are about to be told and it is told in chronological order. The narrator wants us to know why he is not mad. Everything he tells us, though, leaves us with the impression that he really is mad – “It took me an hour to place my whole head within the opening […] Ha! – would a madman have been so wise as this?” – The way he brags about an accomplishment like this one makes him seem crazy and as the story progresses we can confirm that he is indeed mad. The theme in the story is horror and paranoia. Due to the fact it is written in the 19th century it does...
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...on a trip to Baltimore, under mysterious circumstances: theories of “congestion of the brain,” alcoholism, rabies, epilepsy, and carbon monoxide poisoning continue to swarm today (“Biography”). Having lived a life of constant struggle and turmoil, it is not surprising that his works are imbued with brooding and despondency, and that the common themes in his writings revolve around derangement and death. His short story “The Tell-Tale Heart” provides a perfect example of his fixation with madness, murder, and melancholy. It is this very fascination with all things grotesque, combined with his uncanny ability to weave multiple literary elements together to create a bizarre tapestry that appeals to readers, and what makes Edgar Allan Poe such a great writer. In “The Tell-Tale Heart,” an unknown narrator recounts the events leading up to his murdering of an old man. The story opens with the narrator defending himself against the reader’s assumption of his madness: True!—nervous—very, very dreadfully nervous [I] had been and am; but why will [you] say that [I] am mad? The disease had sharpened [my] senses—not...
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...Tungalag Ganbold English 314 Julie Booche April 4, 2012 Villains in Fairy Tales Research paper All children love to listen to fairy tales. When we were young, we ask our parents to tell us stories. People are not sure why fairy tales are so interesting and why every children love them. While it is entertaining, it is also moral lesson to young children. They learn from the fairy tales about good and evil. They learn how to distinguish good and evil, wise and foolish, and moral and immortal. Children learn many lessons from the characters of fairy tales and it is very interesting to see that they love heroes in the fairy tales and do not like the bad guys in the stories. When I was thinking about the research topic, the one thing pulled my attention was why there are villains in almost all fairy tales. It is very interesting to think that all fairy tales have villains. In this paper I am going to talk about who the villains in the story are, why authors talk about villains in their stories and what readers learn from them. I will use mostly about fairy tale villains such as my favorite fairy tale’s villain, Cinderella’s stepmother. When we read the stories, we can tell who the villain in the story is. They are usually described as stepmothers, witches, monsters, sneak, thief, robber and traits. For example, in the Cinderella story, Lady Tremaine is a villain. In the article “Top 10 Most Evil Disney villains”(Antonia) the author described the Lady Tremaine as self centered...
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...The Tell-Tale Heart Q. Choose a novel or a short story in which the author creates a fascinating character. By referring to appropriate techniques, show how the author has created this character and why you found him/her so interesting. Among the many strange and complex short stories by Edgar Allen Poe, ‘The Tell-Tale Heart’ has come to be known as one of the most mysterious and psychologically intriguing. The story contains a fascinating character in form of the narrator, which is explored through Poe’s use of word choice, irony, and alliteration, as well as many other thought provoking techniques. The story as a whole explores the themes of perception versus reality, and the question of whether the evil within is worse than the evil without, and Poe delves into these themes using the character he has created to narrate the story. The story follows the murder of an old man and its aftermath, the story told with what seems like dazzling clarity on behalf of the narrator, obscuring the meaning of the act and calling the emotional stability of the unnamed, assumed male, narrator into question. In the very first sentence of the story, Poe introduces irony to draw in the reader, and leaves the beginning purposefully ambiguous to cause intrigue towards the narrator. “TRUE! – nervous – very, very dreadfully nervous I had been, and am; but why will you say that I am mad?” By starting the sentence with the word ‘true’, Poe leads us to believe what we read next will be some sort...
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...uses personification, metaphors, and symbols in order to give hints at details that would otherwise be unknown. These type of tactics help to keep the readers on their toes, otherwise they would be subject to misinterpreting what they read. In particular, Poe was a profound user of irony in his short stories. Poe used irony to depict the errors in his characters’ ways of thinking and their actions. Stories such as “The Cask of Amontillado”, “The Tell-Tale Heart”, and “The Masque of the Red Death” are all short stories that convey this notion. It is my intention to, based on the evidence found and presented, to prove this point. Let us first look at how Poe’s use of irony proves this point in “The Cask of Amontillado.” . The setting of the events is an “evening during the supreme madness of the carnival season” (Poe, “Cask” 426). This setting alone is symbolic for in this time during a carnival, people dressed themselves in costumes, becoming for a short time something other than their normal selves. Both Fortunato and Montresor are outfitted. Fortunato is wearing “a tight-fitted parti-striped dress, and his head was surmounted by the conical cap and bells” (426). In short, his attire was much like that of a jester, a fool if you will. Montresor’s costume is that of “a mask of black silk and…a roquelaire…” (427). Montresor and Fortunato. What do these names mean? Montresor’s name means puppeteer in Latin and Fortunato’s name means rich or fortunate. The irony...
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...watching Law and Order or tuning into the famous OJ Simpson Trial, we as people are captivated by why some would commit this atrocious act against their fellow man. Just like in Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood and Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Tell Tale Heart,” where both try to peer into the minds of murderers using symbolism and themes of madness; yet, the narrator's perspective and overall tone differ. Throughout both stories the authors explore themes of madness, be it focused on a main character or the narrator themself. In his book, In Cold Blood, Truman Capote explores sanity through Perry Smith, the man who famously murdered the Clutter family in their home in Holcomb, Kansas; all because him and his accomplice wanted access to the Clutter family’s safe. Perry was a happy child until his father started brutally beating his mother, who then took to drinking and promiscuity. Eventually she dragged her kids to San Francisco, where Perry was getting into trouble constantly. He blamed it on having "no rule or discipline, or anyone to show me right from wrong." (Capote 275) This lead to Perry’s...
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...ENH251 World Mythology: Lesson 1 Assignments 1 & 2 Due 3/30/2013 Assignment 1 Read the foreword in your textbook on pages 8 and 9. Then, answer the following questions, using three or four sentences. a. As you begin this course, you undoubtedly have an idea of what a “myth” is. Your textbook’s editor, however, tells you that in Campbell’s view, “Any good story . . . can teach us something, but only certain beguiling visions, stories with the power to shape and control our lives, can inspire and, far too often, destroy us.” These “potent timeless tales” are the only ones he would consider true myths. What about these stories do you think would make them potent? What would make them timeless?--Answer below: What makes these stories potent are the lives these people had. Their journeys through trials, love, and adversity that brought them closer to the true understanding of themselves and the world around them. What makes these stories timeless is how they were told and how the characters were portrayed. They stir up something in us that give us a glimpse into ourselves and makes us want to share these stories fro generations to come.b. Campbell also said that, “Every myth . . . is symbolic. Its narratives and images are to be read, therefore, not literally, but as metaphors.” How would you define the difference between reading something literally as opposed to reading it as a metaphor? Then, as an example, explain the following sentence first literally and then metaphorically:...
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...My name is john Oliver, you probably have heard people whining and whining about the topic I am about to talk about. First let me start by talking about a recent experience to let you understand the matter more. It was a simple Sunday morning, I had a trip planned to the optometrist do get my daughters eyes checked for the first time. The clinic was nothing out of the world fancy or anything really special. The doctor was nice and friendly the real surprise was the hospital bill. The most you can expect for an eye check-up at an optometrist to be no more that a $50, but that was where I was wrong the bill and read $200, not sure why the bill was so high I asked the nurse that she might have mixed the invoice with someone else’s but she showed the name on it, never the less it was my daughter’s name. I had no choice but to pay. But the following week I couldn’t get the incident out of my head. Why was American healthcare so expensive? After extensive research and chatting on blogs regarding the subject. I concluded that the health care industry in the US is a 3$trillion-dollar industry even though health care in the US cost twice as much anywhere else in this world. If you have health insurance, you may think your safe but it doesn’t matter because someone else is paying the bill. You’d be wrong. This country’s exorbitant medical costs mean that we all pay too much for health insuranceOverpriced care also translates into fewer raises for American workers. And to top it...
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...Edgar Allen Poe (1809-1849) was a Gothic writer he wrote over 100 books and poems.’ The Tell-Tale Heart is a story where Poe uses detail, exaggeration, choice of words and the time of day to keep us reading on the edge of our seats. Those are just a few ways which makes the story a good read. When the story first opens we are dragged right into the action, when he is protesting to what we believe is a wrong doing, These words are the classic case of "The lady doth protest too much" and the reader wonders why the narrator tries to explain himself so much, we wonder what he could of done, the suspense begins First, his use of first person instead of third starts building up the suspense; right at the beginning we are introduced to the narrator and his character ‘True! – Nervous – very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad?’ After reading these lines the reader is immediately begins being drawn to the story and its tension, the reader must question everything about the narrating character before reading on, as a reader we must ask ourselves, Is the man really mad? Can we believe what he says? All of this begins putting the reader on edge right from the start. Next we have the use of different words and styles, when we read the story we read it as if the narrating character is confessing to the crime he has done, this also adds tension. Poe also uses repetition ‘I undid the lantern cautiously -- oh, so cautiously – cautiously’ When reading...
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...Synthesis that brings together Stevenson & Conrad– using one thematic idea. The semester has finally come to a close and it is time for our final paper. After Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein” we started to dwell in the works of Robert Louis Stevenson and Joseph Conrad. Each of these outstanding authors brings stories that are very similar in plot and surroundings but are very different in character development. Robert had written “Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” a story that we all know and even if you haven’t read the book it is famous amongst everyone. This tale is so famous that it’s been produced into movies, plays and it has forced its way into literature making references that always recount back to Robert’s story. Now Joseph had written a story to that goes by the name of “Heart of Darkness.” I am going to be honest; before we had read this novel in class I had never heard or seen it. But after we finished the book it was a great tale (a bit confusing though) about a man recanting his journey to his crew on his ship of how he came to be captain and how he acquired this boat. Both these novels introduce this dark theme that evolves into this mystery and each dwell on the same problems of mostly lying, deceit and greed. I believe that both these stories correlate greatly because of the way the mood of the story changes from this surreal place of peace and tranquility to this dark and gothic area that has overcome the protagonist and changed them from good to evil...
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...You will need a copy of this to do the practice activities. Look at the activity document first. If you feel you can cope with it read through The General Prologue but don´t worry too much about understanding all the vocabulary…If it is too much then concentrate on the pilgrim descriptions highlighted in black and choose two or three to work on. You could print out just those parts it in larger type to make it easier to work on. It is a long document. 1. CHAUCER ; GENERAL PROLOGUE (modern English translation) When April's gentle rains have pierced the drought Of March right to the root, and bathed each sprout Through every vein with liquid of such power It brings forth the engendering of the flower; When Zephyrus too with his sweet breath has blown 5 Through every field and forest, urging on The tender shoots, and there's a youthful sun, His second half course through the Ram now run, And little birds are making melody And sleep all night, eyes open as can be 10 (So Nature pricks them in each little heart), On pilgrimage then folks desire to start. The palmers long to travel foreign strands To distant shrines renowned in sundry lands; And specially, from every shire's end 15 In England, folks to Canterbury wend: To seek the blissful martyr is their will, The one who gave such help when they were ill. Now in that season it befell one day In Southwark at the Tabard...
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...When you are old and retired, would you still allow yourself to pursue the passions you desired when you were younger? In the graphic novel, Batman: The Dark Knight Returns by Frank Miller, Bruce Wayne, also known as Batman, stopped being Batman for ten years until the Mutant gang threatened peoples’ lives in Gotham City. The Bat-signal in Bruce Wayne’s heart emitted as the city began to go down. While trying to save Gotham City, Batman is in a losing battle against his old age and the younger villains could easily take him down, but his motivation to save the city was strength in itself (Yehl). The Barrow High School students should read this graphic novel because the graphic novel creates a connection with American history such as the United...
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...Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow, Novel Notes and Three Men on the Bummel which belong to the end of 19th century and the beginning of 20th century. He is famous for his art of story-telling and his humour which is based on misunderstanding. He is good at revealing the weak sides of human nature. This extract is about three men who decided to cook an Irish stew. They began cooking from peeling the potatoes. They threw another products which they wished to get rid of and mixed all carefully. At the end Montmorency bought fresh caught water-rat. After some discussions these three men decided to try something new and added the rat. Eventually, they were very happy by their cook masterpiece. By this text the author wanted to tell us that it had better to try something new than to be indifferent and do everything as usual. People ought to develop in this case world progress would go ahead. Jerome presents his story as 1st-person narration with descriptive passages. This extract may be divided into the following parts. The first one is a description of Sonning. The second is decision of cooking an Irish stew. The third is Montmorency’s contribution to the dinner. The last one is about great success of Irish stew. This text is written with the cheerful, humorous, emotional and optimistic prevailing mod. The author used in this text a lot of lexical and stylistic devices which helped to create the needful atmosphere. In the description of Sonning Jerome...
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