Could you please find answers to these questions?
1 what bothers the narrator about the old man?
2 how does the narrator kill his victim?
3 where does the narrator hide the corpse?
4 as the narrator talks to the police, what does he think he hears?
5 the narrator insists from the very beginning of the story that he is not insane. what charasteristics does he say prove his sanity? what characteristics suggest his madness instead?
6 how does the style of the narration suggest nervousness?
7 the narrator is talking to someone. who might 'you' be?
8 'if still you think me mad, you will think so no longer when i describe the wise precautions i took for the concealment of the body' what is ironic about the narrator's insistence here that you will no longer think him mad?
9 find one clear example of a simile in the story and write down the complete line. how is this an example of simile?
10 the narrator often goes to great lengths to describe the time and place of his crime. how does his description of time and place contribute to the overall mood of the story?
it's by edgar allen poe
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Certainly! Here are the answers to the questions you provided:
1. To find out what bothers the narrator about the old man, we need to read Edgar Allan Poe's short story "The Tell-Tale Heart." In the story, the narrator is bothered by the old man's evil eye. The narrator describes it as pale blue with a film over it, reminiscent of a vulture's eye.
2. To learn how the narrator kills his victim, we should also refer to the same short story. The narrator decides to kill the old man to rid himself of the "vulture eye" that bothers him. One night, when the old man is fast asleep, the narrator sneaks into his room and suffocates him with his beddings.
3. In "The Tell-Tale Heart," the narrator hides the corpse by dismembering it and hiding the parts under the floorboards of the old man's room.
4. While the narrator is talking to the police, he starts to hear a pounding sound, which he believes to be the beating of the old man's heart.
5. Throughout the story, the narrator insists on his sanity. He claims that he can calmly and rationally explain his actions. He says that his meticulous planning and cunning show his sanity. On the other hand, his obsession with the old man's eye, his hallucinations, and the fact that he ultimately confesses to the murder imply his madness.
6. The style of the narration in "The Tell-Tale Heart" suggests nervousness through various techniques. The repetitive and fragmented sentence structures create an anxious and frantic tone. The narrator's frequent use of exclamation marks and rhetorical questions further amplifies the nervousness.
7. In the story, the narrator is speaking to someone directly, referring to them with the pronoun "you." As readers, we can interpret "you" as an implied listener, perhaps a fellow inmate, a confidant, or even the reader themselves.
8. The irony in the narrator's insistence that the listener will no longer think him mad when he describes the precautions he took to conceal the body lies in the fact that the more details he provides, the more the evidence of his insanity is revealed. It is ironic because the narrator's attempts to prove his sanity only further indicate his madness.
9. In the story, one clear example of a simile can be found in the line, "It was a low, dull, quick sound — much such a sound as a watch makes when enveloped in cotton." This is a simile because it compares the sound to that of a watch enveloped in cotton, highlighting the muffled and stifled nature of the noise.
10. The narrator's detailed descriptions of the time and place contribute to the overall mood of the story by creating a sense of suspense and tension. The meticulous attention to time, with the narrator stating how each night he would open the old man's door cautiously, builds anticipation. The detailed descriptions of the house and the darkness surrounding it add to the atmosphere of isolation and dread.
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