A. Facts about Edgar Allen Poe:
1. He was the first well known American writer to try and earn his living through writing alone. This resulted in a financially difficult life.
2. His first book was not published under his name, but as "A Bostonian" .
3. He married his 13 year old cousin when he was 26 years of age.
B. Plot
This story is about a man who is completely obsessed by his master's eye. This eye ressembles one of a vulture, it is pale blue with a white film over it. It consumes him day and night and so he decides to get rid of it by killing his master. This narrator has an accute sense of hearing and can hear almost anything. He is said to be a mad man! So one night, he creeps up to his masters room to try and kill him during his sleep. He has to be extremely quiet to not wake him and to have him suspect absolutely nothing. He does this every night for seven days straight but does not succeed because the old man's eye is closed. But one night, just after midnight, he creeps up to his master's room and sees the eye wide open, staring out into the night. He cannot take it any longer, he must get rid of the retched eye!
The old man's servant stood in silence for many hours. He could hear a light thumping growing louder and louder and even louder still! It was the old man's heart beating faster and louder every minute. He couldn't take it anymore so he burst into the room and smothers him under the bed. The old man let out one shreak, only one, before he was completely silent and immobile. Police arrive at the house after this and demand to inspect the area. The narrator has no problem with this for he has hidden all the evidence well. But it's not until the three police men have inspected and are sitting and having a cup of tea, that the narrator hears the thumping once again. He cannot stand it and revealsto the men what he has done.
C. Analysis
1) Setting: The story takes place in the house of an old man, where the narrator lives. The story probably takes place in the 1840's and over 8 days.
2) Characters: The narrator is the protagonist and is the main character. He is an unnamed person, and calls himself sane but in fact is insane. We don't know if he is a man or a woman but we can make certain assumptions as to what gender he is. (Poe always uses a man protagonist and the actions the narrator does to kill the old man would not be used by a woman.) The other characters are the old man, who has the evil eye. The neighbor hears the sceam and calls the police, and finally the three police men who investigate the house and arrest the narrator.
3) Themes: (Reader interpretation)
1. A human being has a perverse, wicked side - another self - that canprovoke him to doing evil things without an apparent motive.1. He was the first well known American writer to try and earn his living through writing alone. This resulted in a financially difficult life.
2. His first book was not published under his name, but as "A Bostonian" .
3. He married his 13 year old cousin when he was 26 years of age.
B. Plot
This story is about a man who is completely obsessed by his master's eye. This eye ressembles one of a vulture, it is pale blue with a white film over it. It consumes him day and night and so he decides to get rid of it by killing his master. This narrator has an accute sense of hearing and can hear almost anything. He is said to be a mad man! So one night, he creeps up to his masters room to try and kill him during his sleep. He has to be extremely quiet to not wake him and to have him suspect absolutely nothing. He does this every night for seven days straight but does not succeed because the old man's eye is closed. But one night, just after midnight, he creeps up to his master's room and sees the eye wide open, staring out into the night. He cannot take it any longer, he must get rid of the retched eye!
The old man's servant stood in silence for many hours. He could hear a light thumping growing louder and louder and even louder still! It was the old man's heart beating faster and louder every minute. He couldn't take it anymore so he burst into the room and smothers him under the bed. The old man let out one shreak, only one, before he was completely silent and immobile. Police arrive at the house after this and demand to inspect the area. The narrator has no problem with this for he has hidden all the evidence well. But it's not until the three police men have inspected and are sitting and having a cup of tea, that the narrator hears the thumping once again. He cannot stand it and revealsto the men what he has done.
C. Analysis
1) Setting: The story takes place in the house of an old man, where the narrator lives. The story probably takes place in the 1840's and over 8 days.
2) Characters: The narrator is the protagonist and is the main character. He is an unnamed person, and calls himself sane but in fact is insane. We don't know if he is a man or a woman but we can make certain assumptions as to what gender he is. (Poe always uses a man protagonist and the actions the narrator does to kill the old man would not be used by a woman.) The other characters are the old man, who has the evil eye. The neighbor hears the sceam and calls the police, and finally the three police men who investigate the house and arrest the narrator.
3) Themes: (Reader interpretation)
2. Fear of discovery can bring about discovery. He was afraid of being discovered, wich lead to his discovery.
3. The evil within is worse than the evil without.
4) Point of view: First person narrator.
5) Sentence style: "Object, there was none, Passion, there was none, I loved the man."
6) Figures of speech:
- Anaphora (Repetition): "I heard things in heaven, I heard things in hell"
- Personification: "Death" becomes a person
- Simile (Comparison using "like"): "A single ray of light like the thread of a spider"
- Alliteration (Repetition of sounds): "Hearken! Observe how heartily, how calmly."
- Irony: "I was never kinder to the old man during the week before I killed him."
This story is about a man who is completely obsessed by his master's eye (Good topic sentence :) ! ). This eye ressembles one of a vulture, it is pale blue with a white film over it (pay attention to ponctuation). It consumes him day and night and so he decides to get rid of it by killing his master. This narrator has an accute sense of hearing and can hear almost anything. He is said to be a mad man! So one night, he creeps up to his masters (you forgot your apostrophe!) room to try and (are you sure you wanted to say "and"? ) kill him during his sleep. He has to be extremely quiet to not wake him and to have him suspect absolutely nothing (strange sentence but I guess it is ok). He does this every night for seven days straight but does not succeed because the old man's eye is closed. But one night, just after midnight, he creeps up to his master's room and sees the eye wide open, staring out into the night. He cannot take it any longer, he must get rid of the retched eye!
ReplyDeleteThe old man's servant stood in silence for many hours. (You went from present tense to past...) He could hear a light thumping growing louder and louder and even louder still! It was the old man's heart beating faster and louder every minute. He couldn't take it anymore so he burst into the room and smothers him under the bed. The old man let out one shreak, only one, before he was completely silent and immobile. Police arrive at the house after this and demand to inspect the area. The narrator has no problem with this for he has hidden all the evidence well. But it's not until the three police men have inspected and are sitting and having a cup of tea, that the narrator hears the thumping once again. He cannot stand it and reveals to the men what he has done.
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