Descriptive Sentences
DESCRIPTIVE SENTENCES
1. The unnamed narrator of the story is a "dreadfully nervous" character who disputed the allegation that he might be crazy.
2. The narrator wanted to show that he is not insane, and offered a story as proof.
3. There was the narrator’s creepy fascination with the old man’s eye as further proof of lunacy.
4. The narrator became obsessed with the diseased eye of the old man.
5. The narrator likened it to a vulture’s eye and is so haunted by the Evil Eye that he decided to murder the old man.
6. The terror on display was both internal (the mind of the narrator) and external (the grisly murder).
7. There is a frenetic diction of the narrator and his repeated pleas to the reader.
8. Here the Author played upon the imagination of the murderer who buried the Tell Tale Heart.
9. This emotion was transferred to the reader who vicariously shared the thrill and remorse of the murderer.
10. The ticking and beating contributed to the tension of the tale.
11. The murderer's conscience punished and convicted him to confess the crime.
QUESTIONS
1. Is it possible that the narrator is a slave and the old man his owner?
2. Why the narrator had an obsession with the eye of his old neighbor?
3. Why this obsession leads him to murder his neighbor?
4. What is it About That eye - "a pale blue eye, with a film over it" - That so Vexes the narrator?
5. It was obvious he was mentally ill---Why is it every time he wondered if he was crazy or not?
6. The cops would have suspected him?
7. If he wants to kill the man for "practical" reasons, ---Why does he go through such an elaborate and creepy process? And----Why does he take such pleasure in it? ---- Can we chalk this up to perverse impulse? -----Could he simply be plagued by the Impulse? Or must all "perverse" deeds stem from a logical, reasonable cause?
8. Can you relate to any of these characters at all? If so, which ones and how? If not, what separates you, from them?
9. Many suggest
1. The unnamed narrator of the story is a "dreadfully nervous" character who disputed the allegation that he might be crazy.
2. The narrator wanted to show that he is not insane, and offered a story as proof.
3. There was the narrator’s creepy fascination with the old man’s eye as further proof of lunacy.
4. The narrator became obsessed with the diseased eye of the old man.
5. The narrator likened it to a vulture’s eye and is so haunted by the Evil Eye that he decided to murder the old man.
6. The terror on display was both internal (the mind of the narrator) and external (the grisly murder).
7. There is a frenetic diction of the narrator and his repeated pleas to the reader.
8. Here the Author played upon the imagination of the murderer who buried the Tell Tale Heart.
9. This emotion was transferred to the reader who vicariously shared the thrill and remorse of the murderer.
10. The ticking and beating contributed to the tension of the tale.
11. The murderer's conscience punished and convicted him to confess the crime.
QUESTIONS
1. Is it possible that the narrator is a slave and the old man his owner?
2. Why the narrator had an obsession with the eye of his old neighbor?
3. Why this obsession leads him to murder his neighbor?
4. What is it About That eye - "a pale blue eye, with a film over it" - That so Vexes the narrator?
5. It was obvious he was mentally ill---Why is it every time he wondered if he was crazy or not?
6. The cops would have suspected him?
7. If he wants to kill the man for "practical" reasons, ---Why does he go through such an elaborate and creepy process? And----Why does he take such pleasure in it? ---- Can we chalk this up to perverse impulse? -----Could he simply be plagued by the Impulse? Or must all "perverse" deeds stem from a logical, reasonable cause?
8. Can you relate to any of these characters at all? If so, which ones and how? If not, what separates you, from them?
9. Many suggest