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"It's True! Yes, I have been ill, very ill. But why do you say that I have lost control of my mind, why do you say that I am mad? Can you not see that I have funn control of my mind? Is it not clear that I am not mad?"

Question : How does Edgar Allan Poe's indirect character thoughts  impact the tone or mood in paragraph 1?

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What characteristic can you give the character based on the first paragraph? Why would you infer that?

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"When the old man looked at me with his vulture eye a cold feeling went up and down my back; even my blood became cold. And so, I finally decided I had to kill the old man and close that eye forever!"
Question : How does the mental illness the madman has impact the purpose of the symbol the author put in the tale? Would the " vulture eye " have a different purpose if the madman was sane

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"Can you see that I have full control of my mind? Is it not clear that I am not mad?" (Poe, 1).
Question: How does the use of second person impact the story and does it reveal more conflict within the ill man?

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"So you think that I am mad? A madman cannot plan. But you should have seen me. During all of that week I was friendly to the old man

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"I pointed at the boards and cried, "Yes! Yes, I killed him. Pull up the boards and you shall see! I killed him. But why does his heart not stop beating?!" (P.67)

Question: How does the symbol of the old man's beating heart contribute to the plot?

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Quote: "When the old man looked at me with his vulture eye a cold feeling went up and down my back; even my blood became cold. And so, I finally decided I had to kill the old man and close that eye forever!" (Pg 3.)
Question: How does the symbol of the vulture eye impact the author's tone and how would it have changed if the old man's vulture eye never existed?

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Quote: "Can you see that I have full control of my mind?"
How can the story's theme and plot change if it was told in a first point of view? Would you still question his "metal illness"?

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"YES,I HAVE BEEN ILL, very ill. But why do you say that i have lost control of my mind, why do you say that i am mad?"

Q- Why do you think that people

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Rough Draft: How does the point of view of the narrator effect the reliability of the short story being accurate?

How does the first person point of view take impact on the accuracy of the short story?

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"It's True! Yes, I HAVE BEEN ILL, very ill. But why do you say that I have lost control of my mind, why do you say that I am mad? Can you not see that I have full control of my mind?" -pg:1
Question:
Analyze how this quote expresses the type of person this man is? What do you caused him to  question others' point of view over his personality? Do you feel that the man being ill, was apart of the authors purpose of the overall message of the story?

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"You will see, you will hear how healthy my mind is." (Poe, 1) What do you think the significance was about the author writing in second person?

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No! They heard! I was certain of it. They knew! Now it was they who were playing a game with me. I was suffering more than I could bear, from their smiles, and from that sound. Louder, louder, louder! Suddenly I could bear it no longer. I pointed at the boards and cried, "Yes! Yes, I killed him. Pull up the boards and you shall see! I killed him. But why does his heart not stop beating?! Why does it not stop?!

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"When the old man looked at me with his vulture eye a cold feeling went up and down my back; even my blood became cold. And so i finally decided I had to kill the old man and close that eye forever!"
How does this create conflict between the character to the eye? How does the create a tone or mood?

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"His eye was like the eye of a vulture, they eye of one of those terrible birds that watch and wait while an animal dies, and then fall upon the dead body and pull to pieces to eat it." (Poe, 64)
How does including the symbol of the vulture eye impact the plot? What about the tone or mood?

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Quote: "I think it was his eye. His eye was like the eye of a vulture, the eye of one of those terrible birds that watch and wait while an animal dies, and then fall upon the dead body and pull it to pieces to eat it. When the old man looked at me with his vulture eye a cold feeling went up and down my back; even my blood became cold." (Pg.1-2)
Question: How does the aged, old man's vulture-looking and trauma inducing eye fuel the conflict and further accentuate the plot?

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"Suddenly I knew that the sound was not in my ears, it was not just inside my head. When the man heard the beating heart of the old man was it really the beating heart that he was hearing, or was it just him?

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Quote: "His eye was like the eye of a vulture, the eye of one of those terrible birds that watch and wait while an animal dies, and then fall upon the dead body and pull it to pieces."(Pg.1)

Question 1: How does the author use the vulture eye reference and the description of the bird as a foreshadow to what happens?

Question 2: What parts of the quote help the foreshadow be seen?