When reading a piece of literature, 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 of the thesis statements on the Short Story Analysis Paper assignment sheet.
- 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 the thesis. For example, if you choose the thesis on symbols in "The Tell-Tale Heart", you need to find at least five specific details connected to that thesis. In other words, "symbol" 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.
emily k. buss
ReplyDelete1) The Tell Tale Heart
2) Although the narrator of Poe's "The Tell Tale Heart" attempts to convince the reader of his sanity, his narration and actions do otherwise.
3) Alright so I am just going to free write for this part. the narrator keeps telling us over and over again that he isn't mad, trying to convince us that he is saine like in the first paragraph on page 1's last sentence "Observe how healthily-how calmly I can tell you the whole story." Then he proceeds to tell us the story of how he murdered his master. He reminds us of his sanity again in the paragraph where he is explaining how he sneaked into the old man's room night after night. I won't go into all of them now because I will need to save some for my paper. I will point out though that denying he is insaine isn't helping him convincing the readers that he is saine. He says that the "disease" as he called it sharpened his sences. On the first page also in the first paragraph he claimed he heard things in heaven and hell. He claimed he could hear the old man's terrified heart beating in his cheast, and he could hear this again later after he had stashed the old man away under the floor boards. Those are signs of insanity, hearing things that aren't there and reacting to them like he was, pacing around infront of the officers before he snapped and yelled the final line of the story on page 4. "dissemble no more! I admit the deed! - tear up the planks! here, here!- it is the beating of his hideous heart!" Then there is the fact that he "loved" the old man, and yet he wanted to kill him all because of his blind eye. He describes it with such hatred that only a completely insaine person could have. He watched the old man sleep at midnight every night for a week straight, that just creates a creppy mental picture, and then the next morning he would pretend he didn't spend the whole night creepin in the old man's room, waiting to kill him. And to wrap up the 5 examples I need, he totally mutilated the body after he killed it. In the fourth section of the story's last sentence in the first paragraph he says, "First I dismembered the corpse. I cut off the head and the arms and the legs." Dismembering corpse's is a sign of insanity, usually seen in serial killers and physcopaths, along with the fact they don't seem to show any care for what they are doing. The narrator even claims he chuckled to himself about what he was doing. So that is another sign right there.
4. I think I did this right, I don't really have any questions. k bye.
1. The Tell Tale Heart
ReplyDelete2. Although the narrator attempts to convince the reader of his sanity, his narration and actions show otherwise.
3. k for this part i am going to list some of the reasons why the narrator says he is sane, but his actions say otherwise. On the first page and in the second paragraph he says that he loved the old man, but once the idea of killing him was in his head that it haunted him day and night. He decided that he was going to kill the old man. He watched the old man for a week straight before he killed him. He watched the old man every night at midnight. On the eighth night he decided to kill him. He jumped in the room and killed him with his bed. The narrator tries to convince us of his sanity but when you kill someone, chop them up and hide them in the floor boards you're not sane.
4. I think i did this right, i dont have any questions at this time but if i think of any i will ask you in class.
Tanya Dominguez
ReplyDelete1. The Tell Tale Heart
2. Although the narrator of Poe's "The Tell Tale Heart" attempts to convince the reader of his sanity, his narration and actions show otherwise.
3. The narrator with all his many attempts to convince us that he is sane, just keeps showing us that we would think otherwise. In the first paragraph the narrator says how much he loved the old man but then the old man's eye betrayed all the emotions he had for him and so decided to kill him and close the eye forever. Ever since then the narrator watched the old man while he slept and he did this for eight nights straight. In the third paragraph the narrator had done the deed and killed the old man and that evil eye will never haunt him again. After killing the old man the narrator puts the corpse underneath the floor boards. At this point the narrator goes back to his supposedly sane state that he kept trying to show us. When the police came to his house to check around his home about the disappearance of the old man, the narrator gets into the state he was when he decided to kill the old man. In the last paragraph the narrator gives himself up to the police because he couldn't take the old man's heart beating underneath the floor boards. When he was the only one that could hear the old man's heart beating because this is where I saw that the narrator was insane and there was so more proof needed to be told to show otherwise.
4. Throughout the whole short story the narrator just kept showing how insane he was instead of trying to show us how sane he wanted us to think he was. I tried to get a lot of examples where he shows himself being taken by his insanity, so I have no questions at this time.
1. The Tell Tale Heart
ReplyDelete2. The main character in Poe's The Tell Tale Heart is continously claiming that he is sane and normal as ever. However, what he says is contradicting.
3. Through out the entire piece the narrator is stuck on convincing that he is not a mad man. But he talks about how he loved the old man but still killed him. I feel that he was filled with guilt and that why he heard the old mans heart beat underneath the floor boards. His guily consience prevented him from living his life. He starts out in denial about the fact that he is not mad and that he is just fine. When he finally turns himself in to the police because he could no longer take hearing the heartbeat of the old man. This proves that he was for sure a mad man.
4. I have read this before in highschool so I do not have any questions at the moment.
by George Brauchle
ReplyDelete1. The Tell Tale Heart
2. Although the narrator of Poe's "The Tell Tale Heart" attempts to convince the reader of his sanity, his narration and actions show otherwise.
3. How calmly I can tell you the whole story on page 1. Then he starts to talk about how he killed his master because of his eye or the way he looked at him. As I read this story I found that the guy was still telling us he is not insane almost all of the paragraphs he says it is only his senses and he is not insane. Yet he sneaks into his room every night to stand over him but does not kill him because his eyes are not open. My third example is on page 3 and he side “The old man's hour had come” if that does not say something then wow also on page three there is my 4th example and that is when he side “In an instant I dragged him to the floor, and pulled the heavy bed over him. I then smiled gaily, to find the deed so far done. But, for many minutes, the heart beat on with a muffled sound. This, however, did not vex me; it would not be heard through the wall. At length it ceased. The old man was dead.” If this does not show that he is insane then I don’t know what will so to sum up my 5th example it is on the last page when he gets caught and tells them what he did and says where he is and just listen for his heart beat. That is one insane guy in my book
4. No not yet but if I do I will ask in class.
1. The Tell Tale Heart
ReplyDelete2. How individual morals hold us all accountable to ourselves...Even if one feels they may have 'got away' with a crime, the weight of a person’s conscience cannot be concealed, in this way all criminals must pay for their actions even if they must only answer to themselves.
3. The boy watched the old man for a week straight, only at midnight while the old man was asleep. On the eight night, he kills the old man. Then he cuts up the old man’s body so it would fit under the flooring. When the cops arrived he told them to look around and there was nothing for him to hide. After some time of the cops being there, the boy started to hear a loud noise. He looked over to the cops and saw that they weren’t hearing the noise, just him. It got louder and louder coming to realize that it was the old man’s heart. It wasn’t really beat out loud for the man was dead but for the conscience of the boy was affecting him a lot. He ended up showing the police officers that he did kill the old man and put him under the floor, which his chair sat upon. He revealed the old man’s body to the police because his conscience got the best of him.
4. I don’t really have any questions I know that we will have groups on Tuesday if I have any ill just ask after the groups. Thank you
"The Tell-tale Heart"
ReplyDeleteAlthough the narrator of Poe's "The Tell-tale Heart" attempts to convince the reader of his sanity, his narration and actions show otherwise.
Oh my goodness, I had to read this story twice. This man is clearly mad, insane, and a total idiot. It made me wonder if someone was watching me sleep at night. I think that he new he was insane, but in the same sense it seemed normal to him. In my opinion, he seem to think that killing the old man was the right thing to do. It got scary when he thought that the police should have figured it all out. He got so mad, that he shouted out, "I admit the deed!! Tear up the planks!! Man, what a story. I seriously can't believe that I never heard of this story before now. What was I doing in Junior High School.?
1) The symbols in the Tell-Tale Heart are used to show the narrators madness
ReplyDeleteThe first symbol is how he discuss’ his disease of being nervous. "The disease has sharpened my senses-not destroyed- not dulled them." His nervousness in the eyes of the narrator is a gift. The old man’s eye is a symbol also. "He had the eye of a vulture- pale blue eye, with film over it. Whenever it fell upon me my blood ran cold." To the narrator it symbolizes terror and death. The third symbol is the old man’s beating heart. "It was the beating of the old man’s heart. It increased my fury, as the beating of a drum stimulates the soldier into courage." The beating heart is everything that the narrator wants gone. He wants the old man dead and the heart is just edging him on. The ringing is also a very important symbol. "I admit the deed!- tear up the planks." It is the narrator’s guilt coming forward. The darkness is a hiding symbol in my opinion. It plays different parts to both characters. "His room was black as pitch with the thick darkness." "Because death, in approaching him had stalked him with his black shadow before him. To the narrator the darkness is almost a ally in his attempt to kill the old man. However to the old man the darkness represents the unknown.
4) How well should we develop these details in our prewriting?
Mike Osborne
ReplyDeleteThe Model Millionare
Oscar Wilde's "The Model Millionare" uses its protagonist, Hugie, to show that a person's worth is found within.
Category- Character
Hugie has a goal in life to marry his girlfriend, Laura, but her father requires him to have ten thousand pounds of his own before thinking about marraige. This is a challenge to Hugie because he is broke with no job.
Supporting details showing Hugie's personal worth is found within:
1) Not very intellectual (ch1)
"Intellectually, we must admit, he was not of much importance"
2) Poor (ch1)
"...and lived on two hundred a year that an old aunt allowed him"
3) Bright spirits (ch2)
"However, after he got to know Hugie better, he liked him quite as much for his bright buoyant spirits and his generous reckless nature"
4) Reckless generous nature (ch2)
"'Poor old fellow' he thought to himself, 'he wants it more than I do, but it means no hansoms for a forenight.'"
5) Popular (ch1)
"He was popular with the men as he was with the women, and he had every accomplishment except that of making money"
1)The Tell-Tale Heart
ReplyDelete2)Although the narrator of Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart" attempts to convince the reader of his sanity, his narration and actions show otherwise.
3)I'm going to free write...Poe ties to hard to convince the reader that is his not insane when he really is. Poe first talk about how he loves the old man and that the old man has never done him wrong. He also states that he had no deisre for gthe mans gold. He then talk about the mans eye and how he blood ran cold when it fell uopn him. Poe is trying to convince the rader that is is not insane but all these examples shows that he is. He also watched the old man sleep at night but he doesnt feel that its wrong. However everything said in this story does make Poe insane.
4)I have no questions at this time.
1.) The Tell-Tale Heart
ReplyDelete2.) Although the narrator of Poe's "The Tell-tale Heart" attempts to convince the reader of his sanity, his narration and actions show otherwise.
3.) Throughout the whole story, the narrator sets it straight that he is not a mad man. Even though he killed that old man, he said he loved him. He also said that he has no desire for the mans gold. He would watch the old man sleep and thought that that was normal. I believe he felt guilty by killing the old man because he would hear his heart beating. Finally it was enough so he took himself to the police because he couldn't stand it anymore.
4.) I have no questions right now.
1.) The Tell-tale Heart
ReplyDelete2.) Although the narrator of Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart" attempts to convince the reader of his sanity, his narration and actions show otherwise.
3.) I am going to attempt using the free writing as my pre-writing technique. There are atleast five good specfic details that the narrartor tries using to convince us that he is not insane but his actions show otherwise. The first example is actually in the first line of the story. He admits that he is a nervous person and alludes to the fact that the reader already assumes he might be mad. "True - nervous, very dreadfully nervous I have been and am; but why will you say that I am mad" he then tries to convince the reader that his disease has "sharpend my sences-not destryoed- not dulled them". The second example has to do with the crime in the story. The murder was an act of insanity but that narrator tells the reader to "observe how healthy- how calmly I can tell you the whole story." The third example is found prior to the murder taking place. The narrator admits that the reader might find him "mad". "You fancy me mad. Madmen know nothing." "You should have seen how wisely I proceeded, with what caution-with what foresight." Trying to convince the reader again that he is not insane because of how well thought out and carefully he commited the murder. The fourth example can be found after the murder takes place. The reader has just been given the gorey details about that murder. The narrator proceeds to say " If you still think me mad, you will no longer when I describe the wise precautions I took for concealment of the body." Again, the narrator thinks that the planning and detail he put into the murder could only be thought up by a sane person. At the end of the story the narrator's guilt becomes so strong that he confesses his crime and he can not even convince himself that he is sane.
4.) Psnow first of all am I even doing this right? Second I am having troubles with pre-writing. Im confused on what it actually is. Am I suppose to be writing down my ideas or actually start writing the paper? Ive tried looking it up in the book and I dont know what the difference is between drafting and prewriting. Im just guessing you have to practice a bunch of times in order to really get it.
1. The Tell-tale Heart
ReplyDelete2. Although the narrator of Poe's "The Tell-tale Heart" attempts to convince the reader of his sanity, his narration and actions show otherwise.
3. I am going to use freewritting as my technique. The narrator tries to tell us that he is not insane, but his actions tell us otherwise. The first example of this is in the first sentence of the story. "True! - nervous - very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad?". He is telling us that he is nervous, extremely nervous actually, but that it doesn't make him mad, that it 'sharpened his other senses. A second example is "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." The narrator is explaining that he loved the old man, but the "vulture eye" drove him insane, wanting to kill the man so it wouldn't drive him insane anymore. A third example being " It was open - wide, wide open - and I grew furious as I gazed upon it." From this we can tell that because of the eye being open, unlike all the other nights, that it was driving him crazy and even madder, giving him that edge to bring himself to kill the old man. A fourth example "It was the beating of the old man's heart. It increased my fury, as the beating of a drum stimulates the soldier into courage." The beating of the heart makes him more furious. Through this his anger towards the "vulture eye" and the passion of stopping it forever grows. And finally for the last example "I placed my hand upon the heart and held it there many minutes. There was no pulsation. He was stone dead. His eye would trouble me no more." His task was finished, and the eye would bother him no more. His madness could rest, knowing that the eye would no longer bother him.
1. The Tell Tale Heart
ReplyDelete2. Although the narrator of Poe's "Tell Tale Heart" attempts to convince the reader of his sanity, his narration and actions show other wise.
3. I'm going to five details from "The Tell Tale Heart" to prove the thesis. First is admitting he killed the old man. He killed the old man not for money, or anger. But for his eye, the eye of a vulture as the narrator puts it. Second example is how the narrator watched the old man while he slept. For a week he would go into the room at midnight at watched him. Looking for that eye that bothers him so much. Third would be after he killed the old man, the way he disposed of the body. He cut off the head, arms, legs, and put the under the flood boards in his room. Fourth example is hearing of the imaginary heart beat. The cops are going along with their conversation while the narrator is going mad hearing this noise. Wondering why the noise isnt bothering them as much as its bothering him. The fifth example which goes along with the other four exampe would be how he brags about his actions. when he killed the old man he stressed how cautious he was in killing the old man. when he watched the old man sleep. He spoke of how slowly and cautiosly he snuck into the room and watched the old man. After he kille the old man he brags about how it doesnt look any different, that he left no bloodstain. When the cops show up he brings them into the room to bask in his so called "triumph" while the cops are there. Before the "noise" starts
1)"Tell Tale Heart"
ReplyDelete2)I've chosen the thesis statement, Although the narrator of Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart" attemps to convince the reader of his sanity, his narration and actions show otherwise.
3)I've decided to go with listing important details from the short story, to start my analysis. Second sentence of the very first paragragh the narrator mentionsThe desease had sharpened my senses-not destroyed- not dulled them. Third paragragh into the story fifth sentence, You should have seen how wisely i proceeded-with what caution-with what foresight-with what dissimulation I went to work! Same paragragh third sentence from the bottom, And this i did for seven long nights-every 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 who vexed me, but his evil eye.Page 4 first paragraghthird sentence, First of all i dismembered the corpse. Next sentence after that i chose, Then took up three planks from the flooring of the chamber, and deposited all the scantings. Here were five supporting details i came acrosss the reading. Hopefully this is enough to go on. I have a few more to go along with supporting the fact that the man who committed the crime is not mad, because it was all pre-meditated.
4) In putting all of this together, i am at a stand still and don't know where to begin. I am sure i will manage.
1) The Tell Tale Heart
ReplyDelete2) Although the narrator of Poe's "Tell Tale Heart" attempts to convince the reader of his sanity, his narration and actions show other wise.
3) Through the whole story the narrator states he is not mad. He says he loved the old man and the man did nothing wrong but his eye haunted him. He stalked the old man for seven nights and on the eighth he killed him. The plan worked perfectly and he was proud of it. In fact he was so proud of it that when the police came he placed his chair directly over the old mans' corpse. I believe the guilt of killing the innocent man got the best of him. With the beat of the heart leading him to lose it and admit to the murder showed that he is the mad man we perceived him to be from the beginning
1) “The Tell-Tale Heart” by Edgar Allan Poe
ReplyDelete2) Although the narrator of Poe’s “The Tell-Tale Heart” attempts to convince the reader of his sanity, his narration and actions show otherwise.
3) I used the asking questions prewriting technique. The narrator says on page one at the end of the second paragraph, “I think it was his eye!... Whenever it fell upon me, my blood ran cold,… I made my mind to take the life of the old man…” Why would someone take another human’s life, over the way their eye looked? Wouldn’t the “sane” narrator convince us that he has a more personal reason to kill a person? The narrator then goes on to tell the readers around the middle of page three, “I knew that sound well, too. It was the beating of the old man’s heart. It increased my fury.” Is it even possible to hear someone else heart beating? At the beginning of page four, the narrator has already killed the old man and tells the readers, “First of all I dismembered the corpse… Then I took up three planks from the flooring of the chamber, and deposited all between the scantlings.” If the narrator is trying to convince readers that he is sane, would he explain how he hid a murdered body? Is it considered sane in any culture around the world to murder someone because of their eye? Towards the end of page four, police officers enter the house because of a loud yell and want to speak to the narrator. The narrator then tells the readers, “In the wild audacity of my perfect triumph, place my own seat upon the very spot beneath which reposed the corpse of the victim.” Would a sane person enjoy talking to police officers right above where they hid the body? Finally, at the end of page five, the narrator begins to go crazy because he thinks the officers and he hear the dead man’s heart beating. He then says, “Villains! I shrieked, dissemble no more! I admit the deed! Tear up the planks! Here, here!- it is the beating of his hideous hear!” Why would a sane person, give themselves away to the officers? Is it even possible to hear a dead persons’ heart beating? Asking questions is one way to begin to organize supporting details for the thesis I chose.
4) I have been analyzing how people comment on blogs, and I would like to know if I’m supposed to number the questions I answer, or make the whole thing flow together.
1) The Tell Tale Heart
ReplyDelete2)Although the narrarator of Poe's "The Tell Tale Heart" attempts to convince the reader of his sanity, his narraration and actions show otherwise.
3)I am going to use freewriting. The narrarator is very pushy on the fact that he is not crazy. He then goes on to tell us that a simple eye of an elderly man is haunting him. Simply because the mans eye is dull, has a filmy color and a blue tint to it. Now at first you wonder, ok so the eye creeps him out, so what, its not his eye or anything. Well then in the next paragraph he starts explaining about what he does at night. He literally sneaks into the old mans room the a lantern to see the eye that bothers him so much. I just dont get why he had to continually see the eye. If it bothered me that much I wouldnt want to see it. Later he tells us of the last night he snuck in to the mans room. After the old man heard a noise and woke up. He waits for hours for the man to go back to sleep. He then uses a slight amount of the lanterns light to look at the mans eye. Apparently just the beating of the mans heart was enough to give him the drive to throw the man to the floor after he wakes up and yells. he covered him with a mattress and killed him. To me not much if this seems human in nature. No person that i know would be driven to murder over another persons eye. Its not the old mans fault that he has a creepy eye. That doesnt mean he should be killed over it.
4)No questions yet ill let you know.
1) The Model Millionaire
ReplyDelete2) In Oscar Wilde's "The Model Millionaire" He shows the real measure of a man is on the inside.
3)The writing technique im going to use is free writing.
In this short story the main character Hugie Erskine has many qualities that you would think could make him a wealthy and successful man. Hes good looking, well liked by both men and women, and is well accmplished in life. With all this going for him he still lacking the one thing that he needs, and thats wealth. In order to merry the women he loves (Laura Merton) Hugie must come up with ten thousand pounds of his own to possible get her fathers blessing. Hugie Erskine though he is a kind hearted man he isent willing to do whatever it takes for money. Hes not willing to work jobs he doesn't like or stick to a job if it becomes to hard.
Hugie is also generous to a fault. While at his friends house Alan Trevor whos a painter, Hugie sees a man who he procieves as a begger and offers the man money. When in reality the begger is really Baron Hausberg one of the wealthest men in London. In many cases Hugie would have never saw that money again and look like a fool in the process, but the Baron who was touched by the kindness of Hugie who didnt have money to spare gave money to a man he thought was a begger. The Baron was so touched by this action apon hereing about his problems with regards to getting married decided to pay Hugie ten thousand pounds for his kindness.
This shows good things come to kind people.
I hope i did this all right. I have no questions at this time.
1.The tell tale heart
ReplyDelete2.Although the narrator of Poe's "The Tell Tale Heart" attempts to convince the reader of his sanity his narration and actions show otherwise.
3.The narrator tries to convince the reader of his sanity through out the story, but his sanity is only within his own twisted reality. On page one he tells the reader that he has heard things in "the heaven, the Earth and many things in hell" Showing us that he is hearing voices. He also tells of an old man that he befriended and liked well but his eye bothered him so much that he decided to kill the man because of it. Page two describes how he would stalk the old man every night at midnight and watch him while he slept. He would shine a light on to the old mans eye and look at it all night. Later on page three he tells of one occasion he woke the old man on accident and the mere sight of his eye drove him mad. This drives him to think the old mans heart is beating so loudly its going to wake the neighbors, so he jumps the man while he sleeps and kills him with his own mattress. He also describes dismembering the body and concealing it but also defending himself saying his "wise precautions" are not mad. This man is clearly insane but denies it to the end.
4. No questions at this time.
Kyla Powers
ReplyDelete"The Model Millionaire"
Oscar Wilde's "The Model Millionaire" uses its protagagonist, Hughie, to show that a person's worth is found within.
1. Freewriting---
Hughie Erskine is a very wealthy man in life, but has a lack of money. He is weathly with great looks, popularity, accomplishments, character, and love. He has tried a few jobs so he isn't exactly lazy. He just hasn't found the right job for him that pays, besides being a great person. His friend Trevor, a painter, loves Hughie's personaity even though he doesn't have a penny. Hughie loves life and can truely live without money while anyone else would be depressed. So when he visists his friend Trevor at his studio he encounters the beggar who is modeling. Baron Hausberg, on e of the richest men in Europe, was the beggar. Baron must know of the evil that money can bring but saw that Hughie isn't one bit greedy since he gave Baron a sovereign. Baron must of been truely touched since he gave him ten thousand pounds to marry the love of his life. A person without greed is a person truely living a happy life.
I have no questions at the moment.
I have chosen to my paper on Poe's The Tell Tale Heart and look at some of the symbolism that points out the narrator’s insanity.
ReplyDeletePage1 paragraph 1: I heard all things in the heaven and in the earth. I heard many things in hell. (Auditory)
Page 1 paragraph 2: One of his eyes resembled that of a vulture-a pale blue eye with a film over it. (Head)
Page 1 paragraph 3: And then when my head was well in the room, I undid the lantern cautiously-ohms cautiously-cautiously (for the hinges creaked) (Head-Cracking-up)
Page 4 paragraph 1: He was stone dead. His eye would trouble me no more. (Eye reference again: head-release)
Page4 paragraph 3: I took up three planks from the flooring of the chamber, and deposited all between the scantlings. I then replaced the boards so cleverly so cunningly, that no human eye-not even his-could have detected anything wrong. (Eye again-trying to hide his madness and regain his control and composure)
There are many references made to the eye, head and heart which is pretty much the embodiment of man. I believe all of these sentences refer to the unbalanced state of his mind, his extreme anxieties and the struggle going on in his head. The auditory references such as hearing all things on heaven, earth, and hell could be taken for a schizophrenic state. This seems to build throughout the story until he ultimately steps over the edge and kills the old man.
He appears to gain a sense of momentary peace after the killing and a release from his anxieties. This state however passes all too quickly and his paranoia and delusions swiftly return clearly pointing to his insanity.
We could easily expand much more on the symbolism behind all of these sentences and paragraphs.
1) "The Tell-Tale Heart"
ReplyDelete2) Although the narrator of Poe's " The Tell-Tale Heart" attempts to convince the reader of his sanity, his narration and actions show otherwise.
3)free write- the narrator of Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart" attempts to convince the reader of his sanity, his narration and actions show otherwise. Throughout the story the narrator keeps pointing out his careful schemes and rituals to prove that he is sane and mentally able to be clever. In doing so the character is narrating a case against his own claims. His obsession with the eye as if it is its own being, his mid night rituals, the killing of his master and the feeling of paranoia returning even after the eye is gone all point to the insanity of the narrator.
1. The Tell-tale Heart
ReplyDelete2. The symbols in Poe's "The Tell-tale Heart" are used to show the narrator's madness.
3. One of the symbols that shows the narrator is "mad" he states " I heard all things in the heaven and in the earth." (p.1). What natural human being can actually do that? So to me it meant that the narrator is so insane that he thinks that he can really hear that far.
He is obsessed with the old man "Evil Eye"(p.1). being that he considered an eye evil is strange but when he states it in the story its capitolized. He hates this eye so much, it took on a personality to him (narrator).
Every night for seven days he stalked the old man (p.2). Also a symbol of this said madness. For these seven days he went to the old man "chamber" and oh so steadily push his door open, enjoying every minute of it. Obviously the person is insane.
Throughout this story the writer is fighting his own battle with his sanity. Trying to convince himself that this "disease" had "sharpened" his sense's. Then as the story goes on these sharpened sense's prove to be his exact downfall, to madness.
As the officers arrive after his "secret" work was done, the guilt (what was left of his moral concept's) wouldn't let him run. The heart under the floor boards became so loud he couldn't bare it (p.4). It became so loud he told on himself! Clearly he is just as insane as everybody thought he was. To hear a dead heart, only a mad man can.
4. I don't have any question's at this time.
1.) "The Tell-Tale Heart"
ReplyDelete2.)Although the narrator of Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart" attempts to convince the reader of his sanity, his narration and actions show otherwise.
3.)a- "I think it was his eye! yes, it was this!" Condicking one self. page one
b- "To think that there I was, opening the door, little by little, and not even to dream if my secret deeds or thoughts."- being cautionally. page two
c- "amidthe dreadful silence of the that pld house, sp strange a noise as this excited me to uncontrollable terror"- afaird page 3
e- "there was nothing to wash out - no stain of any kind - no blood- spots whatever"-poundering page 4
f- "I felt that I must scream or die!" - panicing page five
4.)I don't know if I did this right, to be truthfull I almost forgot about it and been wokring on it for awhile right now. But I don't have any question, I know theres a way I can use this to write a paper with.
1) “The Model Millionaire”
ReplyDelete2)Oscar Wilde’s “The Model Millionaire” uses its protagonist, Hughie, to show that a person’s worth is found within.
3) Pg1 "To make matters worse, he was in love. The girl he loved was Laura Merton, the daughter of a retired Colonel who had lost his temper and his digestion in India, and had never found either of them again. Laura adored him, and he was ready to kiss her shoe-strings." It doesn’t ever matter how much you have, its how hard you try for it.
Pg 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.” He had a heart of generosity but he never worried about what could be done because of his actions and what impact it might have.
Pg1. “Unless one is wealthy there is no use in being a charming fellow. Romance is the privilege of the rich, not the profession of the unemployed. The poor should be practical and prosaic. It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.” What a person is worth is based on who they are not what they have or how much they have.
Pg3. "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.
The old man started, and a faint smile flitted across his withered lips. 'Thank you, sir,' he said, 'thank you" Little to no change can make a person become very happy at times.
Pg 3. -"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." You might think you have it bad but there are others out there that might have it worse then you. You should always try and help others.
Pg6. "'I have come from Baron Hausberg,' he continued. 'The Baron--'
'I beg, sir, that you will offer him my sincerest apologies,' stammered Hughie.
'The Baron,' said the old gentleman, with a smile, 'has commissioned me to bring you this letter;' and he extended a sealed envelope. He did not know who the old man was when he helped out but in the ended it paid out for him be so generous.
4) unclear as to how to write this paper and what exactly needs to go in it.I am having trouble with the prewriting its self. Just confused in general
1) The Tell-Tale Heart
ReplyDelete2) The symbols in Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart" are used to show the narrator's madness.
3) *Relationship between the narrator being dreadfully nervous yet healthily calm= contradiction.
* No valid reason for murder (no object, no passion, no desire for money, no valid reasons, and loved the old man).
* Associated his fear and murder need toward the old man's eyes (pale blue with a film over it like a vulture).
* His behavior prior the murder (stalking at night, observation of the old man's habits, and his act during the day).
* Start hearing the old man's heart beat the day of the murder.
* Fear of the loud heart beat sets the narrator into a killing mode.
* Murder of the old man (killed by the bed, then carefully chopped in pieces then hidden under the floor).
* Police officers being alerted, inspect the house, where the narrator greats them with an unconditional peace.
*Narrator's guilt show off although he believes the old man's heart is still beating louder and louder.
* Narrator believes the officers are making fun of him by not reacting to the heart beat.
*The officers actions set him off and confess his action while ordering them to tear the floor apart so they can see the body.
4) I have don't have any question in particular, although my internet connection was out for the past 4 days so I was only able to send this blog out now.
Fatimah Riddle
ReplyDelete1) The Tell Tale Heart
2) Although the narrator of The Tell Tale Heart trys to convinced readers of his sanity his actions shows otherwise.
3)One prewriting techniques I’m going to use is free writing. The narrator keeps reminding us that he isn’t crazy and that he is sane for example in the first paragraph he stated “Observe how healthily –how calmly I can tell you the whole story but then proceed to tell us the story of how he killed his master. The man also remind us of his sanity in the 2 paragraph where he stated that “I loved the man, He had never wronged me. The narrator expresses his love for the master but then stills decide to kill him. The man stalks the master every day and night for a week before he deicide he was going to kill him. In the third paragraph the old man killed the master with his bed and put his corpse underneath the floor boards. At this time the narrator goes back to his sane state and couldn’t take the guilt of killing the old man. The old man turns himself into he police because he couldn’t take hearing the beating of the master heart this shows that the narrator was an mad man.
4)No i donot have any questions
Kevin Corbin
ReplyDelete1) Tell-Tale Heart
2) Although the narrator of Poe's "The Tell Tale Heart" attempts to convince the reader of his sanity, his narration and actions do otherwise.
3)One detail that shows me that the narrator is mad is that he states " I heard all things in the heaven and in the earth." (p.1). what person can hear that therefore this proves he is mad.
The "Evil Eye"(p.1) Shows that he is mad. He said he lovbes the old man but the eye mad him crazy, crazy enough to kill.
Every night for seven days he stalked the old man (p.2). Also shows off his madness. For these seven days he went to the old man house and oh so steadily push his door open, enjoying every minute of it.This also show the person is insane.
Throughout this story the writer tries to convince you he is isn't insane. By him saying he isn't insane, then doing the things he did proves he is. (p.2)
Lastly the guilt gets to him. He might have gotten away with it, but he wanted to show off how clever he was, and thought that the cops could hear the heart beat. (p.3)
4) no questions
1. "The Model Millionaire"
ReplyDelete2.Oscar Wilde's "The Model Millionaire" uses its protagonist, Hughie, to show that a person's worth is found within.
3.I would use the catergory method. My main topic would be conflict. Then i would have four lines pointing from conflict. One would say man vs society becasue thats the main problem. Next would be a millionaire, another would be attitude, another would be a perons worth, and lastly I would have a bubble for theme. I would jus explain how they all relate to conflict.
4.NO comment
1. The tell-tale heart
ReplyDelete2. Although the narrator of Poe's "The Tell Tale Heart" attempts to convince the reader of his sanity, his narration and actions do otherwise.
3. five specific details that develop the thesis that is trying to be proven are:
1. where he says, "it is impossible to say how the first idea entered my brain; but once conceived, it haunted me day and night.
(Sane people do not come across these thoughts in just mid day thinking)
2. He was obsessed with the caretakers eye, the dull blue lifeless eye. (showing obsessive traits to show insanity)
3. He looked upon him during his sleep
(stalking is not being planned and rational.)
4. Cutting the caretaker up and putting him in the floorboard is not your average murder case.
5. The guilt of people talking to him in his head is not rational and sane.
1) Tell Tale Heart
ReplyDelete2) In the Tell Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe, Poe uses specific symbols to represent the narrators madness.
3)One symbol is the old mans heart, which represents the narrators inability to control his emotions. Another symbol is the old mans eye represents the narrator rationalizing the situation. ANd the last symbol is time, which symbolizes the narrators last attempt to convince you he is sane.
4) No questions at this time.
1}tell tale heart
ReplyDelete2}in the story the narrator try to convince the reader of his sanity but his actions show different.
3}he hears the old mans heart beats,he believes that the evil eye stalks him but he really stalks the old mann for nothing,and he keeps repeating he's not madd to convince him self and the reader.