When reading a piece of literature or poetry, the use of language develops the meaning. Hence, the words and images are the details that develop the literary elements (plot, character, theme, setting, irony, point of view, symbols). Analyzing the details of a literary piece is vital to understanding it. Based on this, using prewriting can help us identify and organize these details to begin writing a paper.
To provide you more practice in analysis and prewriting, please complete the following activity:
- Choose one of the two short stories ("The Tell-Tale Heart" or "The Model Millionaire").
- Choose one or two literary elements.
- Using one of our prewriting techniques and our analytical method, go through the story you have chosen and list at least five specific, significant details that develop that element in the story. For example, if you choose "The Tell-Tale Heart" and "Setting", you need to find at least five specific details that create what the setting of the story is. In other words, "setting" is your pattern or category--what details belong to this pattern? Provide the precise wording from the story, along with the page number where the detail was found.
- When you're finished, ask any questions that you need answered to help you better understand analysis or prewriting.
The Tell-Tale Heart:
ReplyDeleteLiterary Element #1:Symbols wich include, The mans pale blue eye"I think it was his eye! yes, it was this! He had the eye of a volture-a pale blueeye,with a film over it"(p.1).
The Rusty Lantern"When I had waited a long time,very patiently, without hearing him lie down,I resolved to open it a little-a very, very little crevice in the lantern"(p.2).
The Old Man's Heart"It was the beating of the old mans heart"(p.2).
The Floor Planks"Then took up three planks from the flooring of the chamber, and deposited all between the scantlings"(p.3).
The Officers Hypocritical Smiles"I could bear those hypocritical smiles no longer! I felt that I must scream or die!and now-again!hark! louder!louder!louder!louder"(p.4).
Literary Element #2:Plot
Idea of Killing the Old Man"It is impossible to say how first the idea entered my brain;but once conceived, it haunted me hay and night"(p.1).
Pity For the Old Man"I knew what the old man felt, and pitied him, although I chuckled at heart"(p.2).
The 'killing' of the Old Man"I then smiled Gaily, to find the deed so far done"(p.3).
Concealment of the Body"I still you think me mad,you will think so no longer when I describe
the wise precautions I took for the concealment of the body"(p.3).
Admitance to the Killing of the Old Man"Villians!' I shrieked,'dissemble no more!I admit the deed!-tear up the planks!here, here!-it is the beating of his hideous heart!"(p.4).
“The Model Millionaire”
ReplyDeleteLiterary Technique: Plot
Hughie having a hard life. (pg1) “Ultimately, he became nothing, a delightful, ineffectual young man with a perfect profile and no passion.”
Hughie’s lover’s father wont let them get married. (pg1) “‘Come to me, my boy, when you have got ten thousand pounds of your own, and we’ll see about it.’“
Hughie goes to visit his painter friend Trevor and see he’s painting a beggar-man. (pg 2) “When Hughie came in he found Trevor putting the finishing touches to a wonderful life size picture of a beggar-man.”
Hughie gives the beggar-man a sovereign. (pg 2) “…he walked across the studio and slipped the sovereign into the beggars hand.” (“he” refers to Hughie)
Hughie found out that the beggar-man was a very rich man. (pg 3) Trevor talking – “ ‘That old beggar, as you call him, is one of the richest men in Europe.’”
Trevor’s model gives Hughie 10,000 pounds to get married (pg 5) After receiving an envelope. “On the outside was written ‘A wedding present to Hughie Erskine and Laura Merton, from an old beggar,’ and inside was a cheque for 10,000 pounds.
I am going to choose the tell-tale heart.
ReplyDeleteLiterary Technique is going to be theme.
" How,then, an i mad? Hearken! and observe how healthily -how calmly I can tell you the whole story." (pg.1) first paragraph
" He had the eye of a vulture-a pale blue eye with a film over it. Whenever it fell upon me,my blood ran cold; and so by degrees-very gradually- I made up my mind to take the life of the old man,and thus rid myself of the eye forever."
(pg.1)second paragraph
" i was never kinder to the old man than during the whole week before i killed him."
(pg.1) third paragraph.
"And this i did for seven long nights-very night just at midnight-but i found the eye always closed; and so it was impossible to do the work; for it was not the old man that vexed me, but his Evil Eye." (page.1) end of third paragraph.
" It was open-wide,wide open -and i grew furious as i gazed upon it." (Pg.3) second paragraph.
did i choose the right details for theme?
“The Model Millionaire”
ReplyDeleteLiterary Technique: Character
Hughie Erskine is the protagonist. “These are the great truths which Hughie Erskine never realized.” (pg 1)
Hughie was very good looking, and popular. “But then he was wonderfully good-looking, with his crisp brown hair, his clear-cut profile, and his grey eyes. He was as popular with men as he was the women.” (pg 1)
Hughie had tried many professions, but in the end had no hope. “Ultimately he became nothing, a delightful, ineffectual young man with a perfect profile.” (pg 1)
Money is the antagonist. “Come to me, my boy, when you have got ten thousand pounds of your own, and we will see about it.” (pg 1)
The beggar is a Foil because he helps us to see Hughie for who he is. “‘Poor old fellow,’ he thought to himself, ‘he wants it more than I do, but it means no hansoms for a fortnight;’ and he walked across the studio a slipped the sovereign into the beggars hand.” (pg 2)
The beggar, or Baron Hausberg, resolved the conflict (antagonist) for Hughie. “On the outside was written, ‘A wedding present to Hugh Erskine and Laura Merton, from an old beggar,’ and inside was a cheque for 10,000 pounds.” (pg 4)
"The Tell-Tale Heart"
ReplyDeleteLiterary Element- Setting
"Every night, about midnight..."
"I turned the latch of his door..."
"Seven long nights- very night- just at midnight..."
(Page 1 paragraph 3)
"Upon the eighth night..."
"His room was as black as pitch..."x
(Page 1+2 paragraph 4)
"Many a night, just at midnight..."
"...to feel the presence of my head within the room"
(Page 2 paragraph 7)
"...dead hour of night..."
"...leaped into the room."
(Pages 2 and 3 paragraph 11)
"...it was four o'clock- still dark as midnight"
(Page 3 paragraph 12)
"I took my visitors all over the house."
"I led them at legnth to his chamber."
(page 3 paragraph 13)
The setting was in the house and usually at midnight. At the end of the story the time of day changes to late afternoon. Poe's use of repetition reinstated the setting many a time.
Poe's use of repetition also served to illustrate the theme of the senses.
"Above all was the sense of hearing acute. I heard things in the heaven and in the earth. I heard many things in hell."
(Page 1 paragraph 1)
"... you should have seen me."
"You should have seen how wisely I proceeded..."
"You would have laughed to see how cunningly I thrust it in!"
"...so far that I could see..."
"...I looked upon him as he slept"
(Page 1 paragraph 3)
"...perhaps he heard me..."
"...he could not see the opening of the door..."
(Pages 1+2 paragraph 4)
"...I did not hear him lie down."
"...sitting up in the bed listening..."
(Page 2 paragraph 5)
"Presently I heard a slight groan..."
"...it was the low stifled sound that arises from..."
"I knew the sound well."
"..with its dreadful echo..."
"...although he never saw nor heard- to feel the presence of my head within the room"
(Page 2 paragraph 6)
"...as I gazed upon it."
"I saw it with perfect distinctivness..."
"...but I could see nothing else..."
(Page 2 paragraph 8)
"[the hearts beating] it grew quicker and quicker, and louder and louder..."
"It grew louder, I say, louder..."
"But the beating grew louder and louder!"
"...the sound would be heard by a neighbor!"
"..the heart beat with only a muffled sound."
"...it would not be heard through the wall."
(Pages 2+3 paragraph 12)
"As the bell sounded the hour, there came a knocking at the street door."
"A shriek had been heard..."
(page 3 paragraph 13)
"...I fancied a ringing in my ears."
"The ringing became more distinct..."
"I found that the noise was not within my ears."
(page 3 paragraph 15)
"Yet the sound increased..."
"It was a low, dull, quick, sound..."
"...yet the officers heard it not."
"...but the noise steadily increased."
"...but the noise arose over all and continually increased. It grew louder- louder- louder!"
"Was it possible they heard not?"
"...hark! louder! louder! louder! louder!"
(pages 3 and 4 paragraph 16)
The sense of hearing is prodominet but the sense of sight also plays a key role.
The short story that i chose was "The Model Millionaire", and the literary element I chose to look for in the story was character. The character I focused on was the protagonist, Hughie Erskine. The author describes him as good-looking, a brunette, and having grey eyes. He also goes on to say that he has no profession, and lives off of 200 a year provided by his aunt. Hughie is also in love with a girl named Laura. This is all information given on page one. On page two the author represents how Hughie is kind and giving, by Hughie giving the old man a sovereign. By describing a characters personality, and looks it gives the reader a better understanding of the story and makes the reading more enjoyable.
ReplyDeleteAgain I chose "The Model Millionare" by Oscar Wilde. The element I choose is setting. In the very first paragraph the author gives us many hints as to where we are and what time we are there. In the first sentence he uses the term "charming fellow." I only know one place on earth where people actually talk like that. Farther into the paragraph, in sentence ten the main character is "bequeathed" "a calvary sword" and "a History of the Peninsular War." Hugh puts the books on a shelf between "Ruff's Guide" and "Baileys Magazine." Another clue for figuring out the when is the first paragraph also states that Hugh was a"tea merchant." If you haven't figured out you are in England yet, don't worry Mr.Wilde tells you in paragraph two. The clues I listed above should put you in mind of the mid to late 1800's.
ReplyDelete"Tell-Tale Heart"
ReplyDeleteLiterary Technique-Setting
"And every night, about midnight, I turned the latch of his door and opened it-oh so gently!"
"And this i did for seven long nights-very night just at mignight"
"..to suspect that every night, just at twelve.."
(page 1, paragraph 3)
"Upon the eighth night.."
"A watch's minute hand moves more quickly than did mine."
(page 1, paragraph 4)
"His room was as black as pitch with the thick darkness,(for the shutters were close fastened, through fear of robbers) .."
(page 2, paragraph 1)
"..now at the dead hour of the night, amid the dreadful silence of that old house.."
(page 2, paragraph 8)
"It was four o'clock- still dark as midnight."
"..the bell sounded the hour, there came a knocking at the street door.."
(page 3, paragraph 4)
I am going to be using The Tell-Tale Heart.
ReplyDeleteWith using the literary technique of setting.
"I was never kinder to the old man than during the whole week before I killed him."
(page 1, paragraph 3)
"And every night, about midnight, I turned the latch of his door and opened it - oh so gently!"
(page 1, paragraph 3)
"And this this i did for seven long nights - very night just at midnight."
(page 1, paragraph 3)
"Upon the eighth night I was more than usually cautious in opening the door."
(page 1, paragraph 4)
"the night waned; and I worked hastily , but in silence."
(page 3, paragraph 2)
"When I had made an end of these labours, it was four o'clock - still dark as midnight."
(page 3 paragraph 4)
Michael Bolduc
"The Tell-tale Heart"
ReplyDeleteIRONY-
. the narrator says many times "I am not mad" or "this is why I am not mad" proving that he is in denial of him really being mad.
. the narrator say "evil eye" the eye is not evil however but the narrator seems to be evil becuase of his thoughts of killing.
. the narrator hears his own heart beating becuase he gets nervous about killing the old man but then the sound of his own heart beat drives him to attack.
.in the end of the story the narrator hears his own heart beat again after saying how well the killing went and ends up showing the officers everything because of his own nerves again.
. When the story starts he says that his hears things from hell. that statment hints to his maddness.
The Model Millionaire
ReplyDelete-Plot-
Opening Action:
"Unless one is wealthy there is no use in being a charming fellow. Romance is the privilage of the rich, not the profession of the unemployed. The poor should be practiced and prosaic. It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating. (p.1)"
Exposition:[exemplefied throughout pages 1-4]
"Intellectually, we must admit, he was not of much importance. He never said a brilliant or even ill-natured thing in his life. . (p.1)"
"To make matters worse, he was in love. (p.1)"
"'that old beggar, as you call him, is one of the richest men in Europe. .'(p.3)"
"'The old man you saw to-day in the studio was Baron Hausberg. He is a great friend of mine, buys all my pictures and that sort of thing, and gave me a commission a month ago. .' (p.3)"
Rising Action:
"'Poor old chap! said Hughie, 'how miserable he looks!'(p.2)"
"'Well, I think the model should have a percentage,' cried Hughie. . (p.2)"
"'Poor old fellow,' he thought to himself, 'he wants it more than I do, but it means no hansoms for a fortnight;' and he walked across the studio and slipped the sovereign into the beggar's hand.(p.2)"
Climax:
"'You told that old beggar al my private affairs?' cried Hughie, looking very red and angry. 'My dear boy,' said Trevor, smiling, 'That old beggar, as you call him, is one of the richest men in Europe. He could buy all of London to-morrow without overdrawing his account.' (p.3)"
Falling Action:
"'I think you might have told me, Alan,' said Hughie Sulkily, 'and not have let me make such a fool of myself.'(p.3)"
"'What a duffer he must think of me!' said Hughie.(p.3)"
"'He was in the highest spirits after you left. .' (p.3)"
Closing:
"When they were married Alan Trevor was the best-man, and the Baron made a speech at the wedding breakfast. 'Millionaire models,' remarked Alan, 'are rare enough; but, by Jove, model millionaires are rerer still!'(p.4)'
"The Tell Tale Heart"
ReplyDeleteLiterary element: character
-"How then am I mad? Hearken! and observe how healthily, how calmly, I can tell you the whole story" (p. 1) This shows the narrators true madness. He is in denial and disbelief that there is anything wrong with his mental frame of mind, and is instead positive that he is fine.
-"It is impossible to say how the idea entered my brain, but, once conceived, it haunted me day and night." (p 2) This makes the narrator appear to almost be obsessive because once he gets the idea of murdering the old man he can't stop thinking about it.
-"I think it was his eye! Yes, it was this!" (p. 2) Many of the lines in this story really just contradict his opening paragraph where he tried to convince us he was healthy. He doesn't even know why he wanted to kill the man and talked himself into thinking it was because of his "evil eye"
-"You should have seen how wisely I proceeded -- with what caution -- with what foresight, with what dissumulation, I went to work!" (p.3) In order to compensate for the idea that the narrator could be mad he goes in the opposite direction and over applauds himself on his 'skills'
-"It grew louder -- louder -- louder! And still the men chatted pleasantly, and smiled. Was it possible they heard not?" (p. 17) This shows that despite all over the narrators cockiness and attempts to get us to think that he is not mad and did the right thing, that he is flawed. He has failed at really convincing himself that he did the right thing, and his paranoia that he can still hear the beating hear shows this.
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ReplyDelete1) “The Tell-Tale Heart.”
ReplyDelete2) Theme- senses
3) "Above all was the sense of hearing acute. I heard things in the heaven and in the earth. I heard many things in hell."
(Pg 1, paragraph 1)
"You should have seen how wisely I proceeded..."
"Oh, you would have laughed to see how cunningly I thrust it in!"
"...I looked upon him while he slept."
(Pg 1, paragraph 3)
“Never before that night, had I felt the extent of my own powers- of my sagacity.”
(Pg 1, paragraph 4)
"…and so I knew he could not see the opening of the door..."
(Page 2, paragraph 1)
“He was still sitting up in bed listening…”
(Pg 2, paragraph 3)
“Presently I heard a slight groan…”
“I knew the sound well.”
"...although he neither saw nor heard- to feel the presence of my head within the room."
(Pg 2, paragraph 4)
"I saw it with perfect distinctness..."
"...but I could see nothing else of the old man’s face or person..."
(Pg 2, paragraph 6)
“And have I not told you that what you mistake for madness is but over acuteness of the senses?”
“…there came to my ears a low, dull, quick sound…”
(Pg 2, paragraph 7)
“It grew louder, I say, louder every moment!”
“…so strange a noise as this excited me to uncontrollable terror.”
(Pg 2, paragraph 8)
“…it would not be heard through the wall.”
“I placed my hand upon his heart and held it there many minutes.”
(Pg 3, paragraph 1)
"A shriek had been heard by a neighbor..."
(Pg 3, paragraph 4)
"...and I fancied a ringing in my ears…"
"The ringing became more distinct..."
"…I found that the noise was not within my ears."
(Pg 3, paragraph 6)
"Yet the sound increased..."
"...and yet the officers heard it not."
"...but the noise steadily increased."
"Was it possible they heard not?"
(Pg 3, paragraph 7 & Pg 4, paragraph 1)
"The Model Millionaire"
ReplyDeleteElement - Theme - To be true to one's own heart and reap your own reward.
"He was as popular with men as he was with women, and he had every accomplishment except that of making money." (Para. 1)
"They were the handsomest couple in London, and had not a penny between them" (Para. 2)
'Well, I think the model should have a percentage,' cried Hughie, laughing; 'they work quite as hard as you do.' (Pg 2, Para 3)
'Poor old fellow,' he thought to himself, 'he wants it more than I do, but it means no handsoms for a fortnight;' and he walked across the studio and slipped a sovereign into the beggar's hand.' (Pg 2, Para 6)
'But he looks splendid in them,' said Trevor. 'I wouldn't paint him in a frock-coat for anything. What you call rags I call romance. What seems poverty to you is picturesqueness to me. However, I'll tell him of your offer.' (Pg 3, Para 5)
'What I say,' said Trevor. 'The old man you saw today in the studio was Baron Hausberg. He is a great friend of mine, buys all my pictures and that sort of thing, and gave me a commission a month ago to paint him as a beggar. - And I must say, he made a magnificent figure in his rags, or perhaps I should say in my rags; they are an old suit I got in Spain.' (Pg 4, Para 2)
'Baron Hausberg!' cried Hughie. 'Good heavens! I gave him a sovereign!' and he sank back into an armchair the picture of dismay. (Pg 4, Para 3)
'Gave him a sovereign!' shouted Trevor, and he burst into a roar of laughter. 'My dear boy, you'll never see it again. Son affaire c'est l'argent des autres.' [His business is the silver of others] (Pg 4, Para 4)
'He'll invest your sovereign for you, Hughie, pay you the interest every six months, and have a capital story to tell after dinner.' (Pg 4, Para 8)
'I beg, sir, that you will offer him my sincerest apologies,' stammered Hughie. (Pg 5, Para 6)
'The Baron,' said the old gentleman, with a smile, 'has commissioned me to bring you this letter;' and he extended a sealed envelope.
On the outside was written, 'A wedding present to Hugh Erskine and Laura Merton, from an old beggar,' and on the inside was a cheque for 10,000 (pounds.) (Pg 5, Para 7 and 8)
"Millionaire models' remarked Alan, 'are rare enough; but by Jove, model millionaires are rarer still!" (Pg 5 Last Paragraph)
"The Tell-Tale Heart"
ReplyDeleteby Edger Allan Poe
Rising Action
Page 4, Paragraph 1 - "First of all I dismembered the corpse. I cut off the head and the arms and the legs."
Page 4, Paragraph 4 - "I smiled, - for what had I to fear? I bade the gentlemen welcome."
Page 4, Paragraph 5 - "But, ere long, I felt myself getting pale and wished they sat and still chatted. The ringing became more distinct: - it continued and became more distinct: I talked more freely to get rid of the feeling: but it continued and gained definiteness - until, at length, I found that the noise was not within my ears."
Page 5, Paragraph 1 - "I gasped for breath - and yet the officers heard it not. I talked more quickly - more vehemently; but the noise steadily increased."
Page 5, Paragraph 1 - "Was it possible they heard not? Almighty God! - no, no! They heard! - they suspected! - they knew! - they were making a mockery of my horror!"
The story I chose is The Tell-Tale Heart. Edgar Allan Poe uses symbolism and setting.
ReplyDeleteSymbolism:
"He had the eye of a vulture - pale blue eye" (page 1, paragraph 1)
"Never before that night, had I felt the extent of my powers..."(page 1, paragraph 2)
"Villains!' I shrieked, 'disassemble no more! I admit the deed! - Tear up the planks! here, here! -it is the beating of his hideous heart!"(page 4,)
Setting:
"And every night, about midnight, I turned the latch of the door and opened it- oh so gently!"(page 1, paragraph 1)
"I took my visitors all over the house"(page 3, paragraph 4)
"The Model Millionare"
ReplyDeleteOscar Wilde
Theme: Things are not always as they appear.
"you Painters are a heartless lot"(pg3)
"you told that old beggar of my personal affairs"(pg3)
"My dear boy," said Trevor, smiling, "that old beggar, as you call him is one of the richest men in Europe." (pg3)
"What a duffer he must think me"(pg3)
"A wedding present to Hugh Erksine and Laura Merton, from a old beggar," and inside was a cheque for 10,000 pounds'(pg4)
The Tell Tale Heart
ReplyDeleteLiterary technique-Setting;
"And every night, about midnight, I turned the latch of his door and opened it-oh so gently!"
Pg1 Para3
"upon the eighth night I was more than usually cautious in opening the door."
Pg1 Para4
"And it was the mournful influence of the unperceived shadow that caused him to feel-although he neither saw nor heard-to feel the presence of my head within the room."
Pg2 Para3
"And now at the dead hour of the night, amid the dreadful silence of that old house, so strange a noise as this excited me to uncontrollable terror."
Pg2 Para7
"In the enthusiasm of my confidence, I brought chairs into the room, and desired them here to rest from their fatigues, while I myself, in the wild audacity of my perfect triumph, placed my own seat upon the very spot beneath which reposed the corpse of the victim."
Pg3 Para5
Katie Barletta
ReplyDeleteThe Tell-Tale Heart:
Literary Element: Symbols
1) The old mans eye "He had the eye of a vulture --a pale blue eye, with a film over it. "(pg.1)paragraph 2
2)His Room "His room was as black as pitch with the thick darkness, (for the shutters were close fastened, through fear of robbers,) and so I knew that he could not see the opening of the door, and I kept pushing it on steadily, steadily." (pg.2)paragraph 1
3)The lantern "So I opened it --you cannot imagine how stealthily, stealthily --until, at length a simple dim ray, like the thread of the spider, shot from out the crevice and fell full upon the vulture eye."(pg.3)paragraph 1
4)The old mans heart "But the beating grew louder, louder! I thought the heart must burst. And now a new anxiety seized me --the sound would be heard by a neighbour!"(pg.3)paragraph 4
5)The ringing in his ears due to his killing "Yet the sound increased --and what could I do? It was a low, dull, quick sound --much such a sound as a watch makes when enveloped in cotton."(pg.)paragraph 1
"The Tell-tale Heart"
ReplyDelete-setting-
"When i had made an end of these labours, it was four o'clock - still dark as midnight".(pg.3,par 4 )
"When my head was well in the room, I undid the lantern cautiously - oh, so cautiously - cautiously- i undid it just so much that a single thin ray fell upon the vulture eye".(pg.1,par 3)
"I kept quiet still and said nothing. For a whole hour i did not move a muscle, and did not hear him lie down".(pg. 2, par. 3)
"Upon the eighth night i was more thank usually cautious in opening the door."(pg.1, par 4 )
"His room was as black as pitch with the thick darkness" (pg.2, par.1)
Character in "The Tell-Tale Heart"
ReplyDelete1. "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 sense - not destroyed - not diluted them."(pg1)
2."Object there was none. Passion there was none. I loved the old man." (pg1)
3"You fancy me mad. Madmen know nothing. But you should have seen me. You should have seen how wisely I proceeded - with what caution - with what foresight - with what dissimulation I went to work! I was never kinder to the old man than during the week before I killed him." (pg1)
4. "To think that there I was, opening the door, little by little, and he not even to dream of my secret deeds or thoughts. I fairly chuckled at the idea;..." (pg1)
5. "I still you think me mad, you will think so no longer when I describe the wise precautions I took for the concealment of the body." (pg 3)
Tell Tale Heart
ReplyDeletePoint of view: First Person "But why will you say that I am mad? The disease had sharpened my senses - not destroyed - not dulled them." pg1 chap1
"It is impossible to say how first the idea entered my brain; but once conceived, it haunted me hay and night." pg1 chap 1
"It was open-wide wide open - and I grew furious as I gazed upon it." pg 2 chap 3
"I still you think me mad, you will think so no longer when I describe the wise precautions I took for concealment of the body." pg 3 chap 4
" I gasped for breath- and yet the officers heard it not" pg 3 chap 5
Theme: Power of Death
"Death, in approaching him had stalked with his black shadow before him, and enveloped the victim." pg2 chap2
"He was stone dead. His eye would trouble me no more." pg3 chap 3
" He was still sitting up in the bed listening; - just as I have done, night after night, hearkening to the death watches in the wall." pg 2 chap2
"And now at the dead hour of the night, amid the dreadful silence of that old house, so strange a noise as this excited me to uncontrollable terror." pg2 chap 3
"But it continued and gained definiteness - until, at length, I found that the noise was not within my ears." pg 3 chap 4
Is this the correct theme? Did I understand it to the fullest?
Story: The Tell-Tale Heart
ReplyDeleteElement: Setting
Examples:
"And every night, about midnight, I turned the latch of his door and opened it." (pg. 1 par. 3)
"Upon the either night I was more than usually cautious in opening the door. A watch's minute moves more quickly than did mine." (pg. 1 par. 4)
"When I had made an end of these labours- it was four o'clock still dark as midnight." (pg. 3 par. 4)
"I took my visitors all over the house. I bade them search-search well. I led them, at length, to his chamber." (pg. 3 par. 5)
"I brought chairs into the room, and desired them here to triumph, placed my own seat upon the very spot beneath which reposed the corpse of the victim."(pg. 3 par. 5)
I chose "The Model Millionaire"
ReplyDeleteLiterary Element - Setting
"They were the handsomest couple in London, and had not a penny-piece between them." (pg 1)
"One morning, as he was on his way to Holland Park, where the Mertons lived, he dropped in to see a great friend of his, Alan Trevor." (pg 1)
"That night he strolled into the Palette Club about eleven o'clock, and found Trevor sitting by himself in the smoking-room drinking hock and seltzer." (pg 2)
"'My dear boy,' said Trevor, smiling, 'that old beggar, as you call him, is one of the richest men in Europe." (pg 3)
"The next morning, as he was at breakfast, the servant brought him up a card on which was written, 'Monsieur Gustave Naudin, de la part de M. le Baron Hausber.'" (pg 4)
I am Choosing the literary element of "Irony" and each quote is followed by it's page number.
ReplyDeleteThere are many examples of the literary element of "Character" in Oscar Wild's short story "The Model Millionaire,” but my favorite part was the element of "irony." The element of irony was set up right in the beginning sentence, “Unless one is wealthy there is no use in being a charming fellow,”(p1) implying that there is no use for a good personality if one is poor. This statement is followed by the words, “Romance is the privilege of the rich, not the profession of the unemployed,”(p1) and, “The poor should be practical and prosaic,”(p1) reinforcing the idea that people who don’t have money should be boring miserly, penny-pinchers. A few lines down the story states, “These are the great truths of modern life which Hughie Erskine never realized,”(p1) suggesting that Hugh, the main character, was headed for imminent disaster. The story supports its original statement about romance made in the second sentence by quoting the father of Hughie’s love, “Come to me, my boy, when you have got ten thousand pounds of your own, and we will see about it [Marrying his daughter].”(p1) Thus, continuing to showing how romance is not for the poor. Nevertheless did the author not say that there is no use in being charming unless one is rich? Here is where Hughie starts to un-assumingly prove the cynical theme of the story wrong. The author mentions an acquaintance of Hughie’s, an artist who, “had been very much attracted by Hughie at first, it must be acknowledged, entirely on account of his personal charm.”(p1) When Hughie, “walked across the studio and slipped the sovereign into the beggar’s hand,”(p2) he spent money he could not afford to loose. Following this even he was scolded by Laura, his lady friend for spending the money, not knowing that Hughie and her would ironically be rewarded by his kind action. The conversation between Hughie and Trevor the painter continued to build the irony of the story as Hughie said, “What a duffer he[Baron Hausberg] must think me!”(p4) In the end, the original view of the story had ironically changed as what looked like foolishness turned out to greatly help the future of the main character, “A wedding present to Hugh Erskine and Laura Merton, from an old beggar,’ and inside was a cheque for £10,000.”(p5)
There are more examples I could have added but adding these examples was hard enough to explain.
“The Model Millionaire”
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The very first line of the short story itself is ironic to the overall theme of good things happen to good people.
Example 1: “Unless one is wealthy there is no use in being a charming fellow.” Pg. 1
The following statement again refers to the lack of wealth.
Example 2:”He was as popular with men as he was with women, and he had every accomplishment except that of making money.” Pg. 1
As you continue the status of power is still shown by your wealth. This is shown when the Colonel will not allow Hughie to either engage to or marry Laura.
Example 3:“They were the handsomest couple in London, and had not a penny-piece between them. The Colonel was very fond of Hughie, but would not hear of any engagement.
'Come to me, my boy, when you have got ten thousand pounds of your own, and we will see about it,'” Pg. 1
The theme is partially show when Alan, the painter, doesn’t tell Hughie that the “beggar” is actually royalty and Hughie gives the “beggar” sovereign, although he has little money to spare himself.
Example 4: “He looked so forlorn and wretched that Hughie could not help pitying him, and felt in his pockets to see what money he had. All he could find was a sovereign and some coppers. 'Poor old fellow,' he thought to himself, 'he wants it more than I do, but it means no hansoms for a fortnight;' and he walked across the studio and slipped the sovereign into the beggar's hand.” Pg. 2
The theme and the irony come together when Hughie says
Example 5: “I am an unlucky devil” Pg. 4
Finally, the theme ends with the good-natured person, Hughie, receiving the 10,000 pounds because he was so generous with what little he had.
Example 6: 'A wedding present to Hugh Erskine and Laura Merton, from an old beggar,' and inside was a cheque for £10,000.” Pg. 5
This is Brian Kim.
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Literary Technique
The eyes of old man comes from, “I think it was his eye! Yes, it was this! He had the eye of a vulture – aple blue eyes, with a film over it.” (Poe, 1)
The terror heart beat of old man’s heart is from, “Meantime the hellish tattoo of heart increased. It grew quicker and quicker, and louder and louder every instant. The old man’s terror must have been extreme! It grew louder, I say, louder every moment!” (Poe, 3)
The floor plank is from, “Then took up three planks from the flooring of the chamber, and deposited all between the scantlings.” (Poe, 4)
The dead old man’s heart beat is from, “but the noise arose over all and continually increased. It grew louder – louder – louder!” (Poe, 5)
The short story I chose to analyze is "The Tell Tale Heart." This story is built off of its characters, as many are.
ReplyDeleteHughie is the protagonist of the story. He is a handsome man with a wonderful personality. Everyone is quite fond of him. His only flaw is that he cant hold a job. Hughie is a character who seems like he should be living a wealthy and happy life, But instead he is barely able to afford to live. This flaw helps us to feel for the character and creates a desire to see him succeed in the end.
This flaw seems to be the result of his kindness. As if he is where he is because he constantly puts others before himself. Like when he gives up his last soverign to the beggar (pg 2). His kindness is what holds hom back from living a succesful life. This traight is as much a flaw. All of this is enterpreted from his description and his actions in the story.
The tell tale heart
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The disease had sharpened my senses not destroyed not dulled them. P1
He had the eye of a vulture – a pale blue eye, with a film over it. P1
I undid the lantern cautiously. For the hinges creaked. P1
His room was black as pitch with the thick darkness. P2
Presently I heard a slight groan, and I knew it was the groan of mortal terror. P2
The Tell-Tale Heart
ReplyDeleteLiterary Element: The Plot (How he thinks about killing the old man)
"It is impossible to say how first the idea entered my brain;but once conceived.it haunted me hay & night"(pg.1)
"Now this is the point. You fancy me mad" (He has become angry;pg.1)
"I had my head in and was about to open the lantern,when my thumb slipped upon the tin fastening,( He made the old man become fearful;pg. 2)
"I knew what the old man felt,and pitied him,although I chuckled at heart"( He killed the old man;pg.2)
"I smiled,for what had I to fear" (Hewas not remorseful for what he did;pg.3)
Literary Element:Setting
"Every night about midnight"(The time he would open the door;pg.1)
" It took me a whole hour to place my whole head within the opening so far that I could see him as he ly upon his bed"(He was going into the old man's room;pg.1)
"And this I did for seven long nights"( He did this a few times a week;pg.1)
Upon the eighth night I was more than usually cautious in opening the door" (He was more aware on the eighth day;pg.1)
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"I took my visitors all over the house" ( They were in a house when the killing of the old man happened;pg.3)
1. The Tell Tale Heart 2. One example of a literary element that Edgar Allen Poe uses in The Tell Tale heart is foreshadowing. Poe mentions how the killer goes to the old mans house and watches him sleep and has many harsh emotions towards the old man. When reading this i concluded that the killer clearly had something against the old man and something bad was most likely going to happen to him. After stalking the old man for eight nights the killer finally kills him. This didn't come as much of a surprise to me because i knew what was most likely going to happen because of Poe's use of foreshadowing. Another example of a literary element that Poe uses is, a rising action. Poe uses the rising action in a way that is very obvious. The killer is obviously a very disturbed person. So Poe makes it very clear through many events that something bad is going to happen. The old man is watched and stalked for eight nights which leaves the reader anticipating what is going to happen. 3. 4. How do you find details that correspond to the literary elements? Are there specific details i should be looking for?
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