...The Tell-Tale Heart vs. The Black Cat Edgar Allan Poe’s short stories, “The Tell-Tale Heart” and “The Black Cat,” have many similarities as well as differences. The two stories can be compared for both have similar themes as well as corresponding plots. However, the two stories also contrast considering their different endings. Both of Poe’s stories, “The Tell-Tale Heart” and “The Black Cat,” have the theme of death and murder. In “The Tell-Tale Heart,” the narrator murder’s an old man with “a pale blue eye, with a film over it.” In the story, “The Black Cat,” the narrator murders his wife. The plots of the two stories are also alike for they both begin with the narrator reflecting on his crime, not seeing that he is “mad,” and end with...
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...Profiles belong to a very “stretchy” and versatile genre. These profiles of Griffith Park differ greatly, but they both describe the same place. A.How do they differ in terms of the details they describe? The first story has a real historic feel. The writer goes into a lot of details about the land and how the land later came to be a national park. The second story tells a story of an adventured through the famed park. b. How do they differ in purpose, angle, audience, and style? The first article is for more of a historic reason, while the second story is there simply to tell a story about a night filled with adventure. c. How do their titles forecast the content, angle, and style of each? The first title is long and detailed. The seco0nd is short and sweet. d. How do their organizations differ? How do they begin and end? The article which tells the history, lists several historic facts about the person whom created the Park. The second article tells a story which happens to take place in the park. One Article is to educate, the other is simply to tell a story. e. Finally, compare the two in a single sen- tence that follows a pattern like this one: “The Recreation and Parks piece makes me feel alive, while Percy’s piece makes me feel kind of bored. Exam With over 4,210 acres of both natural chap- paral-covered terrain and landscaped parkland and picnic areas, Griffith Park is the largest mu- Nicipal Park with urban wilderness area in the United States (Johnson-Sheehan...
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...The mood of a story or movie can evoke certain feelings or vibes in the reader or the viewers. The mood is usually referred to as the stories atmosphere, mainly because it creates an emotional situation that surrounds the reader or viewer till the end. A story or movie can have more than one type of mood that it gives the viewer. There are plenty of stories or movies that have the same or similar types of moods. A mood can be told or shown in many ways, such as the settings of where the story is taking place, or the descriptive words the author uses to explain how the character feels. The stories and movie Tell-Tale Heart, Darkness Falls, and Monkey’s Paw all have a scary mood to the it to make the reader more interested in the story till...
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...may or my not approve of. The two characters whose behaviors I most approve of are Lee Pai and Hernando. The characters whose behaviors I do not approve of are Sven and John. There are several reasons why I approve of the behaviors of Lee Pai and Hernando and do not approve of the behaviors of Sven and John. All of these reasons I have based on my interpretation of the story, The Parable. The Parable is a story about Rosemary, a young woman who is betrothed to a man named Hernando. Rosemary is supposed to meet Hernando for there up coming wedding but she is faced with a dilemma. In order for her to get to her wedding she has to cross a very deep and wide river that is full of crocodiles. Rosemary is clueless on how she is to get across this river, so she decides to turn to people, she knows, for help. The first person she turns to is Sven for he owns a boat. Sven listens to Rosemary's problem and tells her he will take her across the river if she spends the night with him. Rosemary, surprised and shocked at hearing such an offer, declines and turns to another acquaintance, Lee Pai, for help. Lee Pai tells Rosemary he is sorry but he can't help her. Not knowing what else she can do, Rosemary goes back to Sven for help. She spends the night with him and the next day he takes her across the river. Rosemary and Hernando are then together at last. The evening before their wedding, Rosemary feels the need to tell Hernando what she had to...
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...of people and characters. The Host, Harry Bailey, makes the point that they should all ride together and entertain one another with stories. I believe Chaucer uses this setting in order to tell many different types of tales. The first pilgrim to tell a story is the Knight. He tells a tale of two knights: Arcite and Palamon. They were wounded in battle by the Duke of Athens, Theseus. The Duke decides to imprison them rather than execution. During their imprisonment they both fell in love with the Duke’s sister-in-law, Emily. After fighting over who was more worthy of Emily, Arcite was freed from prison through the help of a friend. However, he was banished from Athens and was to never return. Arcite returns in disguise as a personal attendant for Emily. When his fellow knight, Palamon, is freed from prison, he confronts Arcite and they begin to fight over her again. The Duke apprehends them and arranges a tournament, with Emily as the prize, between the two knights and their best men. Arcite wins, but he is thrown from his horse and dies. Palamon then marries Emily instead. It makes sense that the Knight would tell this story because it is filled with knights, love, honor, chivalry, and adventure. I believe that Chaucer chose the Knight to tell this story because it emphasizes rules of honor and proper conduct. In the story, the Knight describes the Duke like this: “Of Athens he was lord and governor, and in his time was such a conqueror that greater ...
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...How is the story told in Auden's "O What Is That Sound"? The story of ‘O What Is That Sound’ by W H Auden is the story of two people (presumably husband and wife) who watch soldiers progressively marching increasingly close to their house. Towards the end of the poem the supposed husband betrays his fearful wife and leaves her to deal with the abnormal forces. The constant rhythm and steady pace of the poem conveys the sense of a story with continuous action and the ABAB rhyming scheme emphasises the sound of the soldiers that are marching and “drumming” towards them, which brings the reader to feel more fear for the couple’s safety and what is going to happen to them. This poem is told with a sense of time and place confusion by Auden, and it could be argued this was done by Auden to make the reader feel as though they can relate the poem to real life experiences that they have been through. The story is also told with a the repeated phrase on line two which provides anticipation for the army and what is going to happen next. This story is told in the form of a ballad and is communicated through Auden's use of question and response, with two narrators. This gives the reader an understanding that one of the characters is in more control and knows what is happening and the other character more anxious and desperate for answers and expresses this with a sense of urgency. In this case the husband/male is the one who is in control and the wife/female is the one needing constant answers...
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...tornado that made it's way through Joplin, Missouri in 2011. The two articles about it, “The Evil Swirling Darkness,” and “A storm chaser’s first hand account of the Joplin Tornado,” are alike and unalike in many ways. First and foremost, a similarity is, both texts tell us that "nothing could prepare" Jeff Piotrowski for the Joplin Tornado. The scope article (“The Evil Swirling Darkness,”) states, "he could not have imagined the horror that was about to strike in Joplin." and the interview (“A storm chaser’s first hand account of the Joplin Tornado,”) declares, "but nothing could prepare him for what's he's witnessed this week." The article is talking about the Joplin Tornado. Second, a difference between the two texts is, that in the interview with Jeff Piotrowski, it tells us that after the tornado, there was not nearly enough help and ambulances to help all of the people...
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...In Ernest Hemingway short stories “Che Ti Dice La Patria?” and “The Killers” men are characterize as dishonest people. People who are dishonest cannot be trusted at all. Someone who is portrayed as a dishonest person will go behind your back and lie to you just to get out of any kind of situation or for their own pleasure. Three examples of the way men are dishonest is found in the short story “Che Ti Dice La Patria,” which is a story about two men’s ten-day trip through Italy. In one scene from the section “A Meal In Spezia” the two men go inside a restaurant where they encounter a waitress that likes one of them, but, he cannot speak her language, so his friend, the narrator, takes advantage of the situation and uses it for his own pleasure. After that the narrator continues to do this instead of finding a way out of the situation, so that they can be back on the road and finish their journey. Later on when they leave to continue...
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...short story “A Conversation with My Father” is more than a story about two characters telling stories, it is a depiction of two generations and the elements between them that differ. One of the underlying themes of the story is the concept of hope and how the two characters individually define it. While on one hand there is the father who is at the end of his life succumbing to heart disease who views the world from a perspective of no longer having hope and on the other there is the narrator, his daughter, who refuses to abandon hope and view things from this perspective. By examining the differing views these two characters have of this particular concept, the reader can see the how the generational gap differentiates them as well as gain an understanding of how individuals personally value hope....
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...in Poe’s “Tell Tale Heart” and Browning’s “Porphyria’s Lover” In Edgar Allen Poe’s short story “Tell Tale Heart” and in Robert Browning’s “Porphyria’s Lover,” both unnamed narrators commit murder and provide the audience with a seemingly unjustifiable reason as to why they murder their loved ones. In “Tell Tale Heart” and in “Porphyria’s Lover,” both narrators attempt to pose to the audience that they are not insane and effectively accomplish this through their tone and explicit narration. Two of the recurring themes within both Poe’s short story and Browning’s poem are madness and the tension between love and hate. The themes are reinforced through calm tone and passive tone and through the characterization of the narrators. In Poe’s “Tell Tale Heart,” the narrator opens up the short story denying the fact that he is insane and defends his statement by confessing to killing an old man in a very calculated and precise manner with the simple motivation being his fear of the old man’s “eye of a vulture.” The narrator goes through with his plan of murdering the old man and hides the body only to be engulfed by a feeling of guilt which leads him to confessing his act to the police. Throughout the short story, the narrator continues to tell the audience that he is not insane due to his “sharpened … senses” and his “calm” way of telling the whole story, yet it is his tale of murder that contradicts the very claim that he attempts to defend throughout the short story. The narrator’s...
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...When it comes to Greek Mythology, one of the most famous stories – is the Trojan War, the fight between Troy and the Achaeans. Throughout the years, there have been numerous representations about this grand tale, from a beautiful amphora portraying Achilles and Ajax playing a board game, created around 500 B.C. (Arts) and the epic poem, Homer’s Iliad describes in great details the last few weeks of the war, written in 800 B.C. A more modern take on the war is the famous movie Troy with actors Brad Pitt and Orlando Bloom, released in 2004. Here we have three different mediums, an amphora, a long poem and a modern film, yet they all tell the tragic bloody tale of the Trojan War. I will discuss the overall theme that these three pieces share,...
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...interesting piece we have read, and why?” My response to this question was John Updike’s “A & P”. “A & P” was not the best or even the most interesting piece that I have read. However, out of all of the stories that I have read for this class, “A & P” left me with the most questions. Some of the questions that I asked myself after reading this story were, “What did Updike want me to get from this story?” The second question I asked myself was, “Was there any symbolism or foreshadowing in the extreme amount of detail that Updike used in this story?” The last question that I wanted to answer was, “Is that it?” Did John Updike really write a story about dress code of a supermarket? Or, did he write this story about the moral dilemma a young clerk faces when he believes his boss was rude to three underdressed girls? John Updike’s “A & P” was first published in 1962. This story took place in a small grocery store. The main character, Sammy, is a young clerk. He is ringing up a lady whom he describes as a “witch”, when three young ladies enter the store wearing nothing but bathing suits. Updike uses great detail in describing the three girls. The first one that he noticed was described as “a chunky kid, with a good tan and a sweet broad soft-looking can with those two crescents of white just under it, where the sun never seems to hit…” The second girl was described as “a tall one, with black hair that hadn’t quite frizzed right, and one of these sunburns right across under...
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...and son. The theme of this story focuses on justice. The boy, Sarty, objects to his father burning barns and wants people to be treated fairly. His father, Abner, believes his son should respect and support kin. Abner thinks family is right no matter what. Faulkner's intent is to show that choosing between one's own family and justice is very difficult to do, and in the end justice must prevail. The theme is best illustrated by its point of view, its characterization, and setting. Faulkner represents his point of view using both first and third person to translate his theme. The story is being told by Sartoris Snopes who is a boy at the time the story takes place. Throughout the story he shifts from first to third person narrative voices. At times in the story he would speak as only a child would, then something would be said by him which was too knowledgeable for a boy his age to know. This gives an impression that he is older and is remembering things of his past. Switching between first and third person shows that the choice he made greatly affected him. The way the characters are portrayed remarkably depicts Faulkner's theme. The two conflicting characters are described in similar ways to show their differences. Abner is described by how people see and think about him. From the beginning his character is clearly depicted by the way people shout at him in the small, southern courthouse for burning barns. The story shows us he enjoys to burn...
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...2 Block 1 January 29, 2013 All Summer in a Day 1) At the Beginning of the story how did the students feel? Find two details from the story the prove your thought. Explain. All of the children were extremely excited for the sun to come. They knew it only happened once every seven years. The last time almost everyone saw the sun was when they were two years old and don’t remember anything about it or what if felt like, or looked like. They believed the rain would stop and they could finally see the sun. 2) Explain how Margot’s experience of the sun is different from the experience of all of the other children on Venus. Find at least one specific detail to explain. Margot has a different experience with the sun, because she was born on Earth and brought to Venus later in her life, all the other kids had been born there. So Margot had seen the sun every day until she was around four years old. For Example, “...She remembered the sun and the way the sun was and the sky was when she was four in Ohio. And they, they had been on Venus all their lives, and they had only been two years old when the last sun came out...” She had been able to see and feel the sun for four years of her life while all the other kids only saw it and felt it for one hour seven years ago. She is the only one who knows and remembers what it looks and feels like. 3) What Point is made about Margot when the story says that rain had “washed the blue from her eyes” and “the red form her mouth”...
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...The Compare and Contrast of The Story of an Hour and The Necklace Tammy Brettschneider Eng 125: Introduction to Literature Instructor: April MacGrotty July 23, 2012 As I read “The Story of An Hour” and “The Necklace” they both seem to be that of the late olden days in which women were meant only to be a housewife and nothing else but a housewife. They weren’t able to have any rights to anything that the men were able to do. For they where only aloud right to staying in the house, to do the house work and for most of all to take care of her loving husband and or the kids if they do have any. Back in those days the women weren’t even really considered to be human. Now in these days when there is a femain conditions that comes up it is considered it’s kind of hard to think that back in the days the women aren’t at all part of soviet like they are now. In the stories you can see that the women were both reflected by this. In here you see that the women both didn’t any type of status and they weren’t able to work out side of their homes. To me both of these women were and seemed...
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