I gave more details about the relationship between MacFarland and Mike. I also included Ken into my summary to help with the confusion of who he is. I also reworded sentences that were confusing. I’m hoping my revised final draft will give insight into this excerpt by Mike Rose. Ashley Reuzenaar Professor Hickman English 111 05D 2 September 2015 Summary and Response Educational scholar Mike Rose authored I Just Wanna be Average excerpt from Lives on the Boundary, a semi biography of his high school experience in vocational education at Our Lady of Mercy.
'The Tell Tale Heart' is a story about a man who killed an old man just because he didn't like the way his eyes looked like. The main character speaks about madness as being a gift and not a kid of disability for example in lines 2 - 4 he says: ' but why would you say that I am mad? The disease had sharpened my senses-not destroyed-not dulled them'. This person is trying to persuade us that the disease isn't bad. The mad man killed the old man and then cut him up and put him under the floorboards of the house.
“Tell-Tale Heart” by Edgar Allen Poe There are crazy people in this world and then there are outright lunatics, that's where Poe enters the scene. In Edgar Allan Poe's story, “Tell Tale Heart”, a man explains how he murders another man for no real reason, and still believes he is sane. To begin, this shady story is about a man describing of how he kills this old man. He explains of how he loves the old man, but the old man’s eye was similar to a "vulture-a pale blue eye, with a film over it." Throughout the story he explains how he isn't insane, and how his disease only "sharpened" his senses.
However, the murder of the old man is not the climax of “The Tell-Tale Heart;” it is when the police arrive at the scene of the murder (although they do not know it yet) that the unnamed protagonist reveals that he has murdered the old man and hidden his body beneath the floorboards (Poe 193). At this point the story ends and the mystery of motive unresolved. However, there are several themes dispersed throughout the story, such as themes of insanity, time, and death and destruction of others and of the self. These themes leave many scholars wondering how they fit together to understand as to why the narrator kills the old man. The theme of insanity is easily recognizable and plays a large role in “The Tell-Tale Heart” to why the protagonist murders the old man; However, in “‘The Tell-Tale Heart’ [readers only see] the results of madness, not its origins” (Symons 241).
When he killed the old man, he dismembered the corpse and hid it under the floor planks. Next day when the police came to search the premises, the murderer stood calm and welcome. Nothing betrayed him as a murderer except from steady heart beating of the old man from under the planks. The murderer was sure the police heard this beating and just hold him in derision. He confessed he admitted the deed.
Characteristics of Effective Classrooms Exercise Week 8 Natasha Medina AED 201 September 16th, 2011 Mary Ortiz Characteristics of Effective Classrooms Exercise Week 8 * * Instruction in American Classrooms Increasing Understanding * 11 | * | * Assess Leslie's teaching using the effective teaching characteristics outlined in Figure 11.1. * To create paragraphs in your essay response, type <p> at the beginning of the paragraph, and </p> at the end. * <P> First of all Leslie is an English teacher and she presented two English paragraphs to her students, one being written with proper English grammar and the second paragraph written with improper grammar. She then broke down each sentence and picked different students to explain what part of the sentence was wrong. Second, I think she really cared about her students’ reason being she took time to make sure they could spot the wrong grammar.
Poe uses different flows of time: fast and slow. On the eighth day, the narrator tries to kill the old man because he hates the old man’s evil eye. The process of killing the old man is very precise and the narrator moves very slowly, taking an hour to open the door until he kills the old man. The narrator demonstrates time moving slowly when he states, “For a whole hour I did not hear him lie down” (Poe 2). This quote suggests how the author can make readers feel nervous, and make them curious of what will happen, so time creates suspense in the story.
This main character is so confident about himself and his madness, moreover, he is completely sure that he has done the right thing by killing the strange eyed old man. He tries to explain that this murder wasn’t without reason, he says that the old man’s “one eye” was “evil” (lines 9-10-11) and this mainly caused him to plan the crime. The narrator explains in detail, how carefully he visits the old man every midnight and how mad he gets and reacts when he sees that vulture eye. The narrator has a quite strange relationship with the old man, since he visits him also every morning and asks how he passed the night. This shows the changeable psychology of the murderer, most probably because of the mental “disease” he mentioned in the beginning of the story (line 2).
We see in the murder of the woman in the street that the sniper doesn’t seem to mind her shrieks of terror followed by the grim silence of death. It is not until his realization that he killed his brother that his character’s shift is revealed. We learn by his reaction of killing his “enemy” that he may not have been as aloof to death and comfortable with war as previously thought. He was described to have lost the passion of war, perhaps even questioning it’s motives. It’s clear that the author
After the long story ended with a lot of contemplation on whether the man was guilty or innocent, Bill Meyers, the possible murderer, coincidentally checks his watch the second the clock at the steeple strikes the hour. The author of this story created the perfect murder through a series of coincidences. In “Cry Silence,” Brown uses foreshadowing, setting, description, dialogue and the evaluation of coincidence to allow for multiple interpretations. Starting the story at dusk, when light and good fades as darkness and evil takes over, is the foreshadowing of the story to come. The smokehouse, for instance, is used as a dark coffin in which to condemn two people to death.