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The tell tale heart by edgar allen poe literature analysis
The tell-tale heart
Symbolism in the tell tale heart
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Reading the book “Tell-Tale Heart”, Is a bad book towards our age group cause society has changed and this book gives a perfect murder plan. If you read this, the narrator is telling the reader he is mentally stable. So the narrator himself lives with an innocent old man with a blue vulture-like eye and he wants to rid himself of the eye. He plots his movements for several nights to see the eye and attack the man. On the eighth night, he went into the old man’s chamber and woke him, he didn't move in the darkness but he waited to see the eye then he moved quickly then killed the old man. Life is priceless, so why did the old man have to die because of his eye?
The things the narrator said made the story seem real, In a life or death situation in experience. Most people laugh at death in
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horror movies but they don’t think that it could ever happen. But on the other hand, The book is good under the mystery and creepy twists. If I had to compare the play with the book, It shows how and the ways he moved and with what caution he had until he startled the old man. After he had startled the old man he stayed quiet upon the dark room. He waited until he seen the evil eye, Then he attacked the old man, Pulling the bed over him. After killing the old man he dismembered his body leaving no blood stain, he felt the eye would bother him no more. Now that he killed the old man and he rid himself of the eye, he happy about it. I see that the eye bother him but the agreement is that he should have killed that man, being around the age of 13-15 this isn’t a good book. Cause at the play when the acted out the cutting of the old man limbs and poking out his eye with a fork, most people couldn’t handle that. I could see why the narrator was sane but it makes you think his insane if he got chills and angry from the old man’s eye. But after that cops came, upcoming towards the end he loses control of himself and his conscance got the best of him. But Others opinion might be different, So like saying “The Tell-Tale Heart is a good book for kids to read because it makes them read more”.
Understanding That point, It may make them want to read even more but it’s that the setting took place in a house of an old man that was killed of his eye. I think that more our age group won’t understand that this could possibly happen. This book grabs your attention but knowing that you could do this in a way to “get rid of something” that bothers you. It’s simple, and most people don’t feel bad in a way that their conscance don’t affect them in a way.
Now, I explained that facts of why this book is bad towards our age group cause, This could happen to someone else. This could be your grandfather that was murder or a sibling doing this crime. Know that this book give kids a way to read more of Edgar Allan Poe’s books but it's still a murder plan. I think this book should be read to kids that's at the age of 7-10 because they just understand the scary parts and mystery but doesn’t process the book in a way older people does. It’s just that all stories has a different setting, plot, and characters but it’s about the way things that
happen.
Being said so, parts in the book where violence such as wolf attacks, gunshots, and potential homicide is clearly depicted through simple yet powerful vocabulary. The book also contains parts about kissing and a sexual act which was depicted through a fade-to-black style. Although the book contains such scenes, the depth of the words that were used to elaborate a particular scene was not too strong and was in fact in a moderate level. The book can therefore still be suitable for young readers. At the same time, the characters within the book are also of the same age range which made it easy to understand and relate to the story as it progresses and
Over this entire novel, it is a good novel for children. It train children how to think logically, and notes people we should cherish our family, and people around us, very educate. Children can learn true is always been hide.
In conclusion, I would highly recommend this book to early teens who are fans of drama and comedy because they could probably relate to most of the issues discussed to a certain extent. Girls my age, especially, would enjoy this book as they could relate to the issues discussed and they have probably already experienced similar
After hearing a brief description of the story you might think that there aren’t many good things about they story. However, this is false, there are many good things in this book that makes it a good read. First being that it is a very intriguing book. This is good for teenage readers because often times they don’t willingly want to read, and this story will force the teenage or any reader to continue the book and continue reading the series. Secondly, this is a “good” book because it has a good balance of violence. This is a good thing because it provides readers with an exciting read. We hear and even see violence in our everyday life and I believe that it is something teenagers should be exposed to. This book gives children an insig...
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The narrator in “The Tell-Tale Heart” murders an elderly man because he is fearful of the man’s “evil eye.” “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” (Poe 37). The narrator explains that he is haunted by the man’s eye and the only way to
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The narrator believes he is justified in killing the old man because the man has an Evil Eye. The narrator claims the old man's eye made his blood run cold and the eye looked as if it belonged to a vulture. Poe shows the narrator is insane because the narrators' actions bring out the narrative irony used in "The Tell Tale Heart".... ... middle of paper ...
The “A Tell-Tale Heart” short story is about the narrator taking care of an old man who can no longer take care of himself. He became obsessed with the old mans eye and would sneak into his room at night to watch his eye and watch the old man sleep. He had nothing against the old man; he was always nice and friendly. The only thing that bothered him was his eye and how it was “a dull blue, with a hideous veil over it that chilled the very marrow in [his] bones” (p. 304). One night while creeping into the old mans bedroom to watch for his eye, he made a noise with his thumb slipping upon the tin by accident and the old man sprang up. He was motionless for an hour till the old man lay back down. While trying to sneak out of the room the old man eyes were open to see him standing there and shrieked and the narrator saw upon his vulture eye. “Meantime the hellis...
Like many of Poe's other works, the Tell-Tale Heart is a dark story. This particular one focuses on the events leading the death of an old man, and the events afterwards. That's the basics of it, but there are many deep meanings hidden in the three page short story. Poe uses techniques such as first person narrative, irony and style to pull off a believable sense of paranoia.
In "The Tell-Tale Heart", the storyteller tells of his torment. He is tormented by an old man's Evil Eye. The storyteller had no ill will against the old man himself, even saying that he loved him, but the old man's pale blue, filmy eye made his blood run cold. And when the storyteller couldn't take anymore of the Evil Eye looking at him, he said, "I made up my mind to take the life of the old man, and thus rid myself of the eye for ever." This is the start of the storyteller’s madness, and as the reader listens to what he says, the madness within the storyteller becomes very apparent.
A recent young adult novel has stirred up a lot of controversy in the world of writing literature. The issue is that current young adult literature is too dark for teen readers, or is merely more realistic than previous works for teens. In early June 2011, the Wall Street Journal ran an editorial written by book critic Meghan Cox Gurdon says how dark is contemporary fiction for teens? Darker than when you were a child, my dear: So dark that kidnapping and pederasty and incest and brutal beatings are now just part of the run of things in novels directed, broadly speaking, at children from ages of 12 to 18. As I write rhetorically about this argument meaning the understanding of or approach to human interaction or based on their purpose and motivation.
...For this reason, appropriate readers for this novel must have the ambition to accept reality. In evaluation, young adults from grades 10th to 11th grade should have the potential to read Of Mice of Men.
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The fixation on the old man's vulture-like eye forces the narrator to concoct a plan to eliminate the old man. The narrator confesses the sole reason for killing the old man is his eye: "Whenever it fell upon me, my blood ran cold; and so by degrees - very gradually - I made up my mind to rid myself of the eye for ever" (34). The narrator begins his tale of betrayal by trying to convince the reader he is not insane, but the reader quickly surmises the narrator indeed is out of control. The fact that the old man's eye is the only motivation to murder proves the narrator is so mentally unstable that he must search for justification to kill. In his mind, he rationalizes murder with his own unreasonable fear of the eye.