Friday, October 29, 2010
Thursday, October 28, 2010
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Declaration Fun Facts continued...
George Washington. Most of it was written by Jefferson, with some changes being made by Adams and Franklin.
2. What is the first word of the Declaration?
When. The first sentence in the Preamble: "When in the course of human events..."
3. Of all the colonies, which state had the most signatories?
Pennsylvania. There were nine delegates from Pennsylvania
4. Where is the Declaration kept today?
National Archives.
5. One member of Congress who did not sign the Declaration was John Dickinson. What was his reason?
He was hoping for a reconciliation with Britain.
6. Is there really a map on the back of the Declaration of Independence?
No.On the back of the Declaration of Independence are the words, "Original Declaration of Independence, dated 4th July, 1776." The writing is located on the bottom of the document and upside down.
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http://www.emeraldinsight.com/journals.htm?articleid=871914&show=html
(United Kingdom website...this is how the British view this person)
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Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Response to Literature Essay (by Zahra Ansari)
The old man’s grotesquely abnormal Eye, “pale blue with a film over it” evoked intense feelings of antipathy and hatred from the madman. These feeling became so extreme, that they drove him to the point of murder. “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 for ever.” These were the thoughts running through the madman’s mind in Edgar Allen Poe’s dark, sinister story, Tell-tale Heart. Poe shows extremely descriptive imagery, an intense, suspenseful climax, and an extremely shocking resolution that will leave the reader on the edge of their seat!
Reading Response: The Tell Tale Heart By: Haleigh Tharp
An Evil Eye, the eye of a vulture is all it took to end someone’s life. “It was not the old man who vexed me but his evil eye…I made up my mind to take the life of the old man and thus rid myself of his evil eye forever.” These are the thoughts that ran through the mind of a mad man in Edgar Allen Poe’s, The Tell Tale Heart. In this riveting and horrifying story a man past the point of insane is driven to do the unthinkable, murdering an innocent, old man because of his “pale blue eye with a film over it.” Poe displays remarkable examples of realistic imagery, complex characters and a riveting plot that keeps you on the edge of your seat throughout the entire blood-curdling story.
† Tell Tale Heart Literary Response †
Edgar Allen Poe displays amazing imagery, an exciting plot, and a somber mood in his fabulous story, Tell Tale Heart. Tell Tale Heart is a sinister tale that is told from the narrator’s point of view, a disturbed man that has an intense longing to rid himself of the ‘evil’ eye of an old man that he dubs a friend. To rid himself of the eye, the narrator slips into the old man’s house every night and watches him. Until one night he murders the old man, crushing him under his bed, and burring him under the floorboards.
The fantastic imagery in Tell Tale Heart gives the reader a very acute vision of the various happenings of the story. Poe’s description of the eye, “He had the eye of a vulture- a pale blue eye with a film over it.” (pg.625) gives the reader an accurate image of the eye. He also describes every action in excruciating detail that you can practically see every movement. For example, “I undid the lantern cautiously- oh so cautiously (for the hinges creaked) – I undid it just so much that a single thin ray fell upon the vulture eye.” (pg.626)
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October 27, 2010
Literary Response
The Tell Tale Heart
Being mad, it (omit the comma and it) can drive you into many odd situations. In Edgar Allen Poe’s The Tell Tale heart (comma) the narrator’s own insanity drives him to kill a man, all because of his eye. The eye irritated him to the point of murder, his own insanity and the irritation of the old man’s eye brought him to become more insane. (That was a run-on)Poe shows amazing imagery, has a strange antagonist, and a suspenseful climax.
Poe shows fantastic imagery in The Tell Tale Heart. His imagery really puts the reader inside (get rid of: of)of the story. “He had the eye oft a vulture- a pale blue eye with a film over it.” He really shows amazing imagery with his statement because it truly describes the eye of the old man. (Not 1st person)I feel like I am actually looking at the eye when I read that sentence. “Yes, he was stone dead.” This quote shows that the old man was as dead and still as a non-living stone. He really shows amazing imagery, putting you into the story.
Response to Literature: Tell Tale Heart (Marissa Rodriguez)
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“I don’t care what people think. I’ll just prance down 2nd street with my knees high.” Raymond’s Run is a very inspirational story about a young girl that takes pride in what she does and her optimistic autistic brother. Toni Cade Bambara spins a tale of happiness and pride as she tells of a girl with dreams of winning the May Race.
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Response to Literature: Tell Tale Heart by. Edgar Allen Poe (Sheridan Logsdon)
10-27-10
3/4
Response to literature: Tell Tale Heart
“I became insane with long intervals of horrible sanity.” Edgar Allen Poe explains in his story. Who knew that one little irritation could drive someone so insane; crazy enough to make someone do something very terrible. Edgar Allen Poe exemplifies this in his fantastic story, Tell Tale Heart. In Poe’s story, a madman is driven even further into insanity by an old man’s perplexing pale blue eye with film over it. He refers to this as an “Evil Eye” (QUOTE) Poe does a great job including great imagery, an interesting plot, and lots of suspense in this story. Edgar Allen Poe’s blood-tingling story of a demented killer will keep you on your toes.
Part of the reason it’s so exiting is, his exquisite use of imagery. “Yes, he was stone, stone dead.”Joseph DeLuca
October 27, 2010
Literary Response
The Tell Tale Heart
Being mad, it can drive you into many odd situations. In Edgar Allen Poe’s The tell Tale heart the narrator’s own insanity drives him to kill a man, all because of his eye. The eye irritated him to point of murder. Poe shows amazing imagery, has a strange antagonist, and a suspenseful climax.
Poe shows fantastic imagery in The Tell Tale Heart. His imagery really puts the reader inside of the story. “He had the eye oft a vulture- a pale blue eye with a film over it.” He really shows amazing imagery with his statement because it truly describes the eye of the old man. I feel like I am actually looking at the eye when I read that sentence. “Yes, he was stone dead.” This quote shows that the old man was as dead and still as a non-living stone. He really shows amazing imagery, putting you into the story.
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Sydnie Ross
3/4 ELA
Response to Literature
“I made up my mind to take the life of the old man.” A quote from the great Edgar Allan Poe’s suspenseful story, Tell-Tale Heart. The man's ''Evil Eye'' is making him go incredibly insane. In the story, the psycho man spies on him and waits until the right time to lurk in on him and take his life. Is everything okay in the end? Does he get away with ending an innocent man's life? This intense story shows gruesome plot, unbelievable imagery, and creates and shows phenomenal characterization.
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Response to LIterature Intro
Response to Literature Essay
“A watches minute hand moves faster than mine,” Tell Tale Heart, by the amazing writer, Edgar Allan Poe. Tell Tale Heart is a story about a crazy man. He Kills an old man because the old mans “vulture eye,” watches him wherever he goes. In this essay, I will talk about Tell Tale Heart, and about how good of a writer Edgar Allan Poe was.
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Edgar Allen-Poe is great with making an absolutely startling plot. I never knew what was going to happen next. "Villains!" I shrieked, "dissemble no more! I admit the deed!-tear up the planks-here, here!-it is the beating of his hideous heart". This quote really shows the whole story, it shows how mad he really is, how crazy he is. That writing is so good, and also it completely changes the story, you never see it coming. "I was never kinder to the old man than during the whole week before I killed him." This quote foreshadows the story, and after reading this quote you really want to know what's going to happen next, you want to know why he kills. Also, it is interesting how he fakes you out. The man talks about how he killed the man as if it was not a big deal, but actually he feels very guilty about it and later is arrested. His plot writing is absolutely amazing.
When you read the Tell Tale Heart, it was almost like watching a movie, you could see the characters, that's how good Poe was with showing imagery. "He had the eye of a vulture-a pale blue eye, with a film over it." When you read this quote, you exactly see what Poe was seeing. He almost burns the picture into your mind, I just see the horrible eye staring at me when i read this quote. "I saw it with perfect distinctness-all a dull blue, with a videous veil over it that chilled the very marrow in my bones, but I could see nothing else of the old man's face or person, for I had directed the ray as if by instinct precisely upon the damned spot." Again Poe is addressing the creepy eye, and this quote just makes it more visible. The Eye is a big part of why this is a horror story, when you close your eyes you can see the blue eye staring back at you. I can almost feel my bones turning to ice. Poe's imagery is a big reason why this story is so good, you actually see what he is talking about. These aren't just the two with imagery, they all have it.
Poe is great with characterization, each one of his characters is diverse in their own way. "True! nervous, very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad?" Poe starts his story with this quote, and in the first place it completely catches you off guard, makes you think what is wrong with this character. This quote completely and perfectly describes Poe's character, and maybe even Poe himself. You have to stop and think, what is wrong with this man. "You fancy me mad. Madmen know nothing. But you should have seen me." This quote amazes me. How mad this man really is, but how cunning he really is. This character is so unique, he believes being mad is a good thing. Poe really makes you think. His characterization is so interesting, even just having five or six characters. Each character is different and is perfect for his story.
Edgar Allen-Poe's horrifying story is magnificent, while it scares you. His plot is maddening, his imagery makes you think movie, and each character is diverse and different. I loved this story, I recommend it to anyone.
-Cedar Hobbs
Tell-Tale Heart Response to Literature
Sequoia Ybarra
10-27-10
3/4
Response to Literature: Tell- Tale Heart
“I made up my mind to take the life of the old man, and thus rid myself of the eye forever.” This is a spine-chilling quote from Edgar Allen Poe’s intriguing story, The Tell- Tale Heart. Poe’s story is eerie and shocking. In this story, a deranged madman is driven into becoming more demented, by an old man’s “vulture eye”. It is an “evil eye” he says, “a pale blue eye, with a film over it.” Because of this vexing eye, the fatuous man decides to make it so he never has to deal with the hideous eye that has made him so insane. This fascinating story has graphic imagery, a frightening mood, and a riveting plot that will keep you guessing!
The mind- blowing imagery of The Tell- Tale Heart is very realistic. It feels like you’re actually in the book, or watching the movie. “a dull blue, with a hideous veil over it that chilled the very marrow in my bones.” Is a quote that describes the old man’s perplexing eye, and is excellent at explaining the sight of it.
Another quote that makes you feel like you are seeing what is happening in the story is, “ like the thread of a spider, shot from out the crevice and fell full upon the vulture eye.” The superb imagery gives a stupendous example of the chilling mood.†Response to Literature†Tell-Tale Heart†
3/4 ELA
"He had the eye of the vulture - a pale blue eye with a film over it."(pg. 625). Edgar Allan Poe uses incredible imagery and characterization in his story, "Tell-Tale Heart", to keep his readers in suspense, to keep them attached to his heart-pounding stories. In this story Edgar Allan Poe is driven insane by the old man’s eye. He describes the eye as the “Evil Eye” as if it was a person. In the story the narrator said he never had a problem with the old man but he thought it was his eye that drove him insane. Poe decided to take the old mans life to rid him of the eye. He encounters some problems on the way, but to figure that out, you’ll have to read the story. Poe uses three main components to make this story an all time great. The three components are characterization, imagery, and an interesting plot.
"...there came to my ears a low, dull, quick sound, such as a watch." (pg. 628). To me this is one of Poe's most descriptive quotes. He uses this quote to describe how the killer was so close to the old man that that he could hear the beating of his heart. This was when the killer decided to put the mattress over the man and kill him. This was also the most important part in the short story. "...a pale blue eye with a film over it."(pg 625) This quote is described to explain the old man's eye. With this quote you can really imagine the structure of the old mans eye. Blue, shadowy, looks like a vulture. Poe really emphasizes in imagery and i think that is why he is such a great author.
Along with characterization and imagery Edgar Allan Poe always has a great plot to keep his readers hooked to his story.
"I made up my mind to take the life of the old man." (pg 626). This quote tells what the story is about; for the psycho man to rid himself of the old man's eye that drives him insane. I think this quote was a key part to the story for two reasons. One, if this quote wasn't in the story the readers would be left in suspense of what happened to the old man and two, this quote was a give away to show that the man was actually psychotic. "I cut off the head and the arms and the legs." (pg 626). This quote was very descriptive on how the old man dealt with the body after it was murdered. If you were to read on you would find that one of the neighbors called the cops because she/he heard a scream. The murderer decided to cut the body up and put him under the floor boards. When the cops came he was so nervous that they would find out that he confessed he murdered the old man.
In this story, Edgar Allan Poe uses incredible uses of writing to keep his readers, well, reading! He uses imagery, characterization, and plot. In all the categories, Poe uses great quotes to explain what is going on. "...there came to my ears a low, dull, quick sound, such as a watch..." This is just one of many quotes that Poe uses in the Imagery category. Edgar Allan Poe may be one of the best writers that uses the three main categories for well written literature.
Response to Litterature (Stop the Sun) by Trevor Neuenswander
"Terry sat in a chair next to his father, looking at the floor, wanting only for the earth to open and let him drop in a deep hole. He wanted to disappear."
In the story Stop the Sun by Gary Paulsen, a 13 year old boy named Terry, has a father that has Vietnam Syndrome. He has doesn't like to talk about it, even though he has random spasms, sometimes in public too! His son, Terry, tries to talk to him about it, and that's when it all came out.
"We were crossing a rice paddy in the dark,’ he said, and suddenly his voice flowed like a river breaking loose. ‘We were crossing the paddy, and it was dark, still dark, you couldn’t see the end of your nose. There was a light rain, a mist, and I was thinking that during the next break I would whisper and tell Petey Kressler how nice the rain felt, but of course I didn’t know there wouldn’t be a Petey Kressler."
Gary Paulsen has a great sense of imagery. You can almost see exactly what he is talking about in your head.
"We began taking fire from three sides, automatic weapons, and everybody went down and tried to get low, but we couldn’t."
"Mortars, I hated mortars. You just heard the wump as they fired, and you didn't know where they would hit. They swept back and forth with the mortars, and the automatic weapons kept coming in, and there was no radio, no way to call for artillery."
This is another example of how his imagery is so great. He uses a mix of onomatopoeia's and advanced vocabulary to really connect and make it seem real.
The plot in this extraordinary story is Terry trying to help his dad."No, that's another story, another part of my life, before you."
These quotes help express the plot and Terry's dads emotions.
"'Dad?' Terry said. He thought maybe I could stop him. Maybe I can stop him before... before it gets too much. Before he breaks."
"You cannot know the fear. It was dark, and I was the only one left out of fifty-four men."
"They didn't shoot me. They came, one of them poked Jackson's body and went on, and they left me. But I was dead. I'm still dead, don't you see? I died because I couldn't stop the sun. I died. Inside where I am - I died."
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“True! -Very nervous-very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and I am!” Edgar Allen Poe wrote this quote in the spine tingling, most suspencful story, “Tell Tale Heart.” The narrator says that an old man’s eye is making him deathly mad. He spies and waits until the right time comes to end the man’s life. Will he get away with it? This story has a great exposition, high climax, and a twist ending. Tell Tale Heart is truly a maddening story.
One of the many things this narrator is good at is his introductory. He explains how being mad makes him better at life. “This disease had sharpened my senses”, the narrator states. He explains how the old man’s evil pale blue vulcher eye distresses him. They were far from enemies it was just the eye he despised. This introductory was definitely an amazing one.
Tell-Tale Heart Essay.
11/10/10
Period 3/4
"Am I mad?" The man questions himself. Indeed he is. The "Evil Eye" of a man he knows, is what is driving him insane. What does he do about it? let's see. This suspenseful story, Tell-Tale Heart is an eye catching piece of literature. Edgar Allen Poe truly poured his heart out in this story. He included intense imagery, gruesome climax, and intense ending.
The accurate imagery in Tell-Tale Heart portrayed in the story makes the story seem so realistic. It makes the reader feel like they are witnessing this happen themselves. ..."a single dim ray, like the thread of a spider, shot from the crevice and fell upon the vulture eye." (page 627). This quote is detailed and described with incredible intelligence. It relates the ray of light, to a spider's thread. This metaphor shows how thin and precise the ray of light was. The "vulture eye" also shows that the man's eye resembled a unique, and intense appearance of a mortifying creature. ....."all a dull blue, with a hideous veil over it that chilled the very narrow in my bones"...(page 627). That quote is incredibly descriptive. The words are put together so well. It describes the physical representation of his perplexing eye. In itself, the quote describes his eye with so much detail, you can picture it in your mind. This is truly a quote with imagery. These are interesting, but what really catches your eye is the climax!
The bloodthirsty climax is brutal. " The old man's hour had come! With a loud yell, I threw open the lantern and leaped into the room. He shrieked once-once only." (page 628). This is a quote that sends shivers down your spine, and triggers hairs to rise from you arms. It shows how distorted the man's mind was. The top of the story really comes out when this quote appears in the story; "I dragged him to the floor, and pulled the heavy bed over him." (page 628). That truly uncovered the man's "mad" mind, and showed how he was insanely demented. He killed a man, because of his eye. That was that high end of the dark and delirious story, and I have to admit it was unnerving. I'm not the only one who admitted to something, because in the resolution, the story takes a turn.
The last part of the story was wrapped up by two main quotes. One of them is "He was stone dead. His eye would trouble me no more." (page 629). That is how the old man ended up, dead. Later the mad man's conscience was guilty, that it made him more of a lunatic than before. The pressure gets on him so bad he finally spills the beans and shrieks, " I admit the deed!-tear up the planks-here, here!-it is the beating of his hideous heart!". That's right, he ADMITS it! Personally, i didn't see that one coming. The resolution truly unexpected, and mind blowing! Everything comes to an end though.
Now it's time for this essay to come to an end as well. The three literary components that were brilliant in this story Tell-Tale Heart, by Edgar Allen Poe are fantastic imagery, exquisite climax, and twisted resolution. The writer of the story (Edgar Allen Poe) is a talented and descriptive writer that can catch any one's eye, and interest them as well, from the beginning until the end.
Lexa's Response to Literature Essay, Tell-Tale Heart
In this story, characterization plays a major role. The two main characters have opposite personalities. While one has a quiet, old personality, the other is younger and more on the mental and crazy side. "You fancy me mad. Madmen know nothing, but you should have seen me..." (Poe. 626) This qoute is from the crazy guy. He claims that he is not crazy, but in my opinion, if you have to argue with someone that you are not crazy, than you probably are. "It took me an hour to place my head within the opening so far that I could see him as he lay upon his bed." (Poe. 626) Obviously, if it takes you a whole hour to stick your head thrugh a door, you've got to have some mental problems. You can also be pretty intellegent along with the craziness. Using imagery helps readers see the characters' unusual personalities.
Edgar Allan Poe had a great, creative mind, and used it to make his stories detailed enough that the reader could picture the scenes in his/her head. "He had the eye of a vulture - a pale blue eye, with a film over it." (Poe. 625) When I hear that satement I picture a big glossy looking eye that is a smokey blue color. If the imagery in this sentence wasn't the way it is, I might have just pictured a regular human eye that is hazel or brown. "It was a low, dull, quick sound much such a sound as a watch makes when enveloped in cotten." (Poe. 630) The narrater is describing the slow beating of whatt he thinks is the old man's heart. He doesn know that it is really the pounding of his own heart that he hears in his head, which drives him insane. Poe's creative imagery helps put together the amazing plots of his stories.
Tell -Tale Heart had an intriguing plot that kept me interestered and wanting to read more and find out what would happen next. "So you see he would have been a very profound old man indeed to suspect that every night, just at midnight, I looked in upon him whil he slept." (Poe. 626) After reading this, I was instantly intrigued to read more and find out more about the madman and the old man that was soon to be killed. .....(1 com, 1qoute, 2 more com.)...... The plot was the best, and most interesting part of the story.
Although I'm not sure how Poe came up with some of his brilliant stories, I know that I enjoyed reading Tell -Tale Heart, because of its creative characterization, imagery, and interesting plot.
† Response to Literature †
11-8-10
E.L.A.
Tell-Tale Heart
by Edgar Allen Poe
"I was never kinder to the old man than during that whole week before I killed him." (Poe 626) Following this further, this short tale, by Edgar Allen Poe illustrates a picture in your head with his creative imagery and his suspenseful plot! Tell-Tale Heart goes from a kind old man with an Evil Eye, to a madman with a soul that drives him so crazy, he admits his awful deed! This story, by Edgar Allan Poe, shows a gut wrenching plot, fantastic characterization, and incredible imagery that will paint a picture in your mind.
The gut wrenching plot in Tell-Tale Heart keeps the reader jumping and your heart racing! "I made up my mind to take the life of the old man, and thus rid myself of the Eye forever." (Poe 626) This quote said by the crazy man shows his thought process when he goes for the kill. He wanted to get rid of the Eye so in this quote it shows his relief when he gets rid of the eye forever. "First of all I dismembered the corpse. I cut off the head and the arms and the legs." (Poe 629) This quote displays how much effort the madman put forth to make sure the old man was dead. Although he first killed the man with the bed, he then had to cut him apart. All of this just to make sure the old man was completely dead.
The way Poe describes the characters in the book, it seems like you know the person. “It took me an hour to place my whole head within the opening so; far that I could see him as he lay upon his bed.” (Poe 626) This is the madman he is talking about. He basically described to us that the madman is so crazy, he wouldn't have the common sense to just open the door wide enough in the first place. It shows that he is truly crazy and insane. Ideally, the madman is scared of waking the old man. However, common sense would tell you to just open the door slowly, but to not take forever. “You fancy me mad. Madmen know nothing. But you should have seen me.” (Poe 626) The whole book is mainly about the madman, so he is talking about himself in this quote. Telling himself that he is crazy, basically, he is admitting it to himself. He is saying how he is proud of what he did and that madmen are supposed to know nothing.
Edgar Allan Poe shows his great talent when writing imagery. It's as if you can paint a picture in your head.”...I grew furious as I gazed upon it. I saw it with perfect distinctness- all a dull blue, with a hideous veil over it that chilled the very marrow of my bones...” (Poe 627) This is fantastic imagery, he uses the perfect mix of adjectives to create a full and descriptive sentence. Without even seeing the Eye, I know anything I need to know because of this sentence. “It increased my fury, as the beating of a drum stimulates the soldier into courage.” (Poe 628) I love how this quote says one thing, but has another meaning. He is showing how the guilt he felt made his heart beat like a drum. When he says - “..stimulates the soldier into courage.” - he means the guilt of his action made him tell the truth and admit the deed.
Edgar Allen Poe uses his creativity to create an intriguing story with his characterization, descriptive imagery, and incredible characterization. I was interested right from the start with the suspense of the madmen watching him sleep at night and all the way up to the very end of the book when the madman admits his deed and tears up the floor for the police to see.
Response to Lit on tell-tale Heart by Courtney Wallace :)
The details of imagery portrayed by author Edgar Allen Poe ofin Tell-tale Heart (Edgar Allan Poe)get rid of pulled the reader into the feelings and the sights of the characters. They made you feel in the story. "He had the eye of a vulture - a pale blue eye,with a film over it," (Poe 627)found on page 627 gave the reader an insight oninto the character's facial features and and the reason this was driving him mad. "His room was as black as pitch with thick darkness"(Poe 626) page 626. This quote gives you a feel of the reader's surroundings and adds an eerie tense that pulls you to read more.
transition wordThe dark and sinful mood makes you question his thoughts, actions, and motions you to read forward into the twisted and spine-tingling mood. "Presently I heard a slight groan, and I knew it was the groan of mortal terror." this quote made the blood pulse faster in your veins as you tend to imagine and feel the setting around the characters.read the previous sentence out loud and see if it makes sense "He shrieked once - once only."(Poe ) And the old man had reached his time.
The character of Edgar Allan Poe's story Tell-tale Heart has questionable motivation and may convince you of his accusations of being mad. You will be on the edge of your seat as the writing of Edgar Allan Poe sharpens your senses. "It is impossible to say how first the idea entered my brain." page?Being mad had overtaken him at this point of the story and his actions result in nothing but a tragedy in the house of the old innocent man. "I made up my mind to take the life of the old man" (Poe 626). The beating of his heart slowed to a stop and then into a mind boggling tick of a watch buzzing in your ear. This had drawn him to an extent you had never seen coming.
The surprise ending pushes you off your chair and into the emotions of Edgar Allan Poe's mad character. This story sent a live wire in my nerves and scared me into wanting to read more.not 1st personThe imagery, mood,and motivation were some of the highlights of his work; Tell-tale Heart. Don't repeat your thesis again and again.
GREAT JOB, COURTNEY. YOUR VOCABULARY IS OUTSTANDING!
Tell-Tale Heart Essay-Taryn's
Clever and very descriptive, there were multiple instances of imagery throughout this story that described the mad man's actions. For example this quote of imagery lays out how he sees the Evil Eye in his own set of eyes. "He had the eye of a vulture..." (pg. 625) Clearly the character was disturbed and had an urge to destroy it. It paints a perfect image of the crazed man viewing the eye in his whacked-out mind. The mental human stalked this old folk for 8 nights and one excellent quote that described this scene is as followed. "His room was as black as pitch with thick darkness...." (pg.625) Exquisite imagery detail!
Crazy, gentle, warm-hearted, diagnosed with mental disturbance are the words that best describe these main two characters. An example of one of the characters being diagnosed with a mental disease, is described through one of these quotes in this story. "You fancy me mad..." (pg.626) As you can tell, this quote is from first person view, and tells you that indeed he is a mad man. Although, to him, he thinks his madness is normal. What bothered him and made him crazed was an old man's eye. Stated in the book, the "Pale blue eye..." (pg. 625) made him very mad and he wanted to rid of it forever. The old man was innocent and always paid his debt of to the disturbed man, and he bothered no one. So you might wonder why this madman wold want to harm this old fellow. You must remember though, that the madman, was very very crazed. "For one whole hour I did not move a muscle..." (pg.626) This man stayed silent and still for an hour in the old fellows room. Why would such a human do this? No one knows fully why...all we know is that he wants to kill the Evil Eye. Soon after this imagery was described you could tell that this man really was psycho and hated the eye that caused him misery.
Plots, plots and more plots! Oh my! Here and there, and everywhere even in the old man's room! "With a loud yell I threw open the lantern and leaped into the room..." (pg. 628) Reading this statement you can tell that he was done waiting and wanted to take action on this Evil character. (the eye) When reading these detailed events it was very specific in the what the crazed man was destined to do. After he threw the bed on top of the old man, there was a quote that stuck out to me, and made me realize that he was glad he committed a crime. "He was stone dead and his eye would trouble me no more..." (pg.629) Eventually in the end the guilt crept upon him and he basically turned himself in to the police.
This story was very descriptive and had many suspenseful events. After reading this, it made me cautious of my surroundings! I believe it was an excellent piece of literature, especially since it was written by a man who was very troubled indeed. It showed me that people who are disturbed, really think it's normal. For instance the main character, the crazed man, did not fancy himself mad so he thought it was normal for a human to get rid of such an evil source. Overall, this story was a fantastic piece and it definitely gave me the chills!
Response to Literature on Tell-Tale Heart
The descriptive imagery in Tell-Tale Heart was outstanding and helped draw the reader into the amazing instances of the story. "His room was as black as pitch with thick darkness. " (Edgar Allan Poe, page 626.) The setting and inventive characterizations portrayed through imagery, were full of mysterious and explicable statements and remarks."He had the eye of a vulture- a pale blue eye." (Edgar Allan Poe, page 625.) This quote can easily be imagined in your mind and it is smoothly illustrated. I feel that this cite is important because the first person narrator is obviously mad about the "Evil Eye " by how he explains the imagery of the gaze. "His eye chilled the very marrow in my bones." (Edgar Allan Poe, page 627.) This was a very interesting and exhilarating quote in the story. The old man's eye caused the madman so much grief and the narrator could not handle the intolerable pain of the eye. The imagery in this story was amazing and it was very exciting and perplexing.
The interesting plot in the story was very creative and puzzling. It made the reader want to keep deeply analyzing the thrilling narrative. "I looked in upon him while he slept." (Edgar Allan Poe, page 626.) This dramatic rising action was insane. The creepy eye caused the narrator to feel frustrated, for this reason he watched him stealthily every night. "For a whole hour, I did not move a single muscle." (Edgar Allan Poe, page 626.) This was a very exciting and exhilarating part of the plot in the story. The old man thought something was in his room, for he heard a faint noise, and little did he know the madman was standing there in his way. "I threw open the lantern and leaped into the room." (Edgar Allan Poe, page 628.) "After awhile he finally made his deathly, cautious, and fearless move. You could tell that the narrator was being surreptitious and secret by all the quotes mentioned above.
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Casey's Response to Literature Essay
The most important literary device is imagery. The descriptive imagery in Tell-Tale Heart places you in the author's eyes and allows you to see all of the scene's Poe's trying to describe. "A very, very little crevice in the lantern. So I opened it -- you cannot imagine how stealthily, stealthily -- until at length, a single dim ray, like the thread of a spider, shot out from the crevice and fell upon the vulture eye." (Poe 629) It is obvious from this descriptive sentence that Poe effectively uses imagery. It really allows me to see exactly what the madman was doing at that specific moment. "His room was as black as pitch with the thick darkness." (Poe 626) This simile shows incredible imagery. This sentence shows Poe's amazing skills on using imagery. Both of these statements show very eloquent imagery.
Another literary term that is well written in Tell-Tale Heart is the climax. The climax that Poe describes is written with extreme detail and describes the situation immensely well. "With a loud yell, I threw open the lantern and leaped into the room." (Poe 628) These amazing words describe exactly what the climax was. You can easily conceptualize what was happening by how he described it. "For many minutes, the heart beat on with a muffled sound." (Poe 628) The old man's heart was slowly dying in result of when the crazy character compressed him with the mattress. Throughout the entire story, the main character was planning to kill the old man. He had succeeded in murdering the old man. The climax is a main focal point in this cliff-hanging story.
There are many different parts in this story that Poe wrote sufficiently. A well described term that Poe used to define in this story is his incredible use of similes. "A low, dull, quick sound such as a watch makes when enveloped in cotton." This simile that Poe used took a while to find in this amazing story. It fit in with the story so well. "It increased my fury, as the beating of a drum stimulates a soldier into courage." That simile was my favorite one in the whole story. It clarified when the crazy man could hear the old man's heart beating. Poe used a few more similes in his story but those were the two that really stood out to me.
Tell-Tale Heart Essay!!
The way Edgar uses imagery puts the reader in his place. You become lost in his words and cannot get out. "Presently, I hear a slight groan..." This quote was on page 626 in our literature book. It took me by surprise, for the old man had slept through the previous intrusions. This also quickened my heart beat, along with the suspense, because I knew what was coming, and that it would happen soon. "Whenever it fell upon me, my blood ran cold..." These two quotes settled into the same page, and the page had the highest point of suspense. When Poe described the killer's blood running cold, I could imagine all of the things that I'm afraid of. It made the story easier to relate to this way. Through this description alone, it sounded like a form of self defense on the killer's side. After all, the eye had been tormenting him for years, up until his death, and onto the resolution.
Every element of the plot was set up by a master. The resolution was completely unexpected, and the climax had me on the edge, even while rereading the story. "He shrieked once-once only. In an instant I dragged him to the floor..." Page 628 was the late middle of the story, and most author's would have ended it then and there. Poe, however, went on to tell a different resolution. It was quite clever, actually, to have 2 resolutions. The old man's death was first, and the confession came later. "I admit the deed!-tear up the plank-here, here!-is the beating of his hideous heart!" This resolution on page 630 was a shock to me. The killer had seemed just fine when he had killed the old man. He had even seemed fine when the police showed up. Yet his own madness had seized him, and he believed his heart beat was that of his victim. The poor man had received kindness for a week, but fear consumed him on his last night.
When Poe described the old man's terror that night, my stomach dropped. The mood was thick enough for me to get lost in it and forget that is was only a story. "...it was the groan of mortal terror." I read page 627, already expecting death. I didn't have the slightest idea of Poe's ability to frighten. I felt suspense, of course, but i also felt the fear of that old man. It was like I took his place for that one minute it took me to read his doom. "And now a new anxiety seized me..." Curiously enough, I felt some pity for the killer when I read this quote on page 628. He was insane, and he thought that the neighbors would hear the man's heartbeat. That quickened the murder, and ended the fear for a little while.
This story was almost dangerous to read. Once you start reading it, you forget about the real world around you and it's very hard to get free. It was an amazing story, and I look forward to reading it, again. And again, and again.
Carlie's Response to Literature Essay
"The disease had sharpened my senses --not destroyed --not dulled them." (Poe 625). It is obvious from this quote that Edgar Allan Poe was an amazing author. He wrote dark and suspenseful short stories and poems. His Tell-Tale Heart displayed extremely descriptive imagery, a shocking surprise ending, and an intriguing climax. This story was about a crazed man with a devious plan. His friend, who was an old man, had a strange eye. Poe described it as, "the eye of a vulture --a pale blue eye, with a film over it."(Poe 625) The main character had a disease most understood to be schizophrenia and was driven insane by the so-called, "vulture eye." The main character said, "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," (Poe 625) which he did do. Finally, when the police came, the main character was highly bothered by his own guilt to the point where he had to say,"I admit the deed! --tear up the planks! here, here! --It is the beating of his hideous heart!"(Poe 630)
The illustrative imagery in Tell-Tale Heart gives the reader a sense of actually being in the shady scenes. "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." This quote, on page 626, from Tell-Tale Heart is ironic. The old man locked up his entire house for fear that something on the outside may have killed him, but in reality it was really something from the inside that killed him. Though, this quote does show some imagery; it's almost as if you were there in the room with the main character. "He had the eye of a vulture --a pale blue eye, with a film over it." (Poe 625) This excerpt describes the old man. It paints a picture using metaphors in your head; you can just see the old man. "Yes he was stone, stone dead." This quote, on page 628, allows you to peer in to the mysterious view of the killer. Imagery is obviously present in this tidbit of the story. As you can tell Edgar Allan Poe demonstrates a vast usage of distinctive imagery. This incredible author also combines a flabbergasting surprise ending in the twisting story.
The scandalous surprise ending in Tell-Tale Heart leaves the reader with their mouth open, their eyes wide, and their mind wanting more to the story. "Villains!" I shrieked,"dissemble no more!" This quote from page 626 is unbelievable. The killer was driven insane by his craziness, forcing an unnecessary outburst to the police who were questioning him. "I admit the deed! - tear up the planks- here here!" This quote from page 626 leaves readers astonished. The delirious man confessed to killing the old man, because of his mental illness. "-it is the beating of his hideous heart!" (Poe 630) This quote is the last quote of the story. The killer tells the police that he still hears the old man's heart beating, even though he is dead, because of his wacky, mental disease. Edgar also exhibits a compelling climax through out this alluring brief story.
The intriguing climax in Tell-Tale Heart makes this short story impossible to put down. "With a loud yell, I threw open the lantern, and leaped into the room." This quote from page 628 is, in my opinion, captivating. The killer bursts into the room with only the intention of killing the elderly man in his mind. "Presently I heard a slight groan, and I knew it was the groan of mortal terror." (Poe 628) This tiny portion of the story is astounding. The killer had just made the swift move of dragging the ancient man to the floor and flipping the massive bed over him. "But for many minutes, the heart beat on with a muffled sound." (Poe 628) This excerpt from Edgar's corrupt blunt story depicts what you would hear if you were in the story standing beside the crazed murderer. It is also, in my opinion, chilling; the killer hears the faint sound of the old man's heart beating on after being topped by the heavy weight of a mattress. As you can infer, Edgar has a unique writing style that makes for an unbelievably riveting story, that includes an interesting climax.
From all of the excerpts, in Tell-Tale Heart, that I have used, it is easy to see that Edgar Allan Poe was a dazzling author. His short poems and tales were mystifying and full of heart-pounding suspense. His Tell-Tale Heart exposed extremely descriptive imagery, a shocking surprise ending, and an intriguing climax. The short story is about a mentally disturbed man who was bothered by his friend's, who was an old man, eye. So the main character decided to kill the old man to rid himself of the eye forever. Finally when the cops came, to the house, the main character confessed to his mischefious crime.