Friday, October 29, 2010

intro and first two body paragraphs

Williams Lucas
10/26/10
-Have you read any of Edgar Allen Poe's stories? Their pretty good, he knows how to make a story descriptive. I like refer to him as the Poe man. My favorite and only story I've read by him is Tell-Tale Heart. In this short story there is a crazy man that is annoyed by another guys eye and he ends up killing him because of it. Tell-Tale Heart, by Edgar Allen Poe has descriptive figurative language, jaw-dropping suspense, and a unpredictable conclusion.
-The descriptive figurative language in Tell-Tale Heart makes the reader feel like their right in the story. "Until, at length, a single dim ray, like the the thread of a spider,"is one of many descriptive sentences in Tell-Tale Heart. It describes the light that pass through the door and the room. Another descriptive sentence was, "And now a new anxiety seized me." This describes when he gives up to his guiltiness after he kills the man.
-The jaw dropping suspense in Tell-Tale Heart makes the reader not expecting anything! "So i opened it-you can't imagine how stealthily, stealthily." This is when he opens the door as quiet as possible. I think Poe repeats himself to make it sound more suspenseful."For a whole hour I didn't move a muscle and in the mean time I did not hear him lie down." He says this when he's watching the man with the messed up eye sleep but he wakes up.
-The unpredictable conclusion makes a great story better. "He was stone dead." This is when he smothers him with a mattress. "His eye would trouble me no more." Poe says this when he's killed the man and cut off his limb, and hid him under the floor boards. Then too make it even more unpredictable Poe loses himself to his guilt. He tells the cops what he did and where he put him.
-Tell-Tale Heart, by Edgar Allen Poe has descriptive figurative language, jaw dropping suspense, and an unpredictable conclusion. If you haven't read an Edgar Allan Poe story you should deffinately consider it. In Tell-Tale Heart there is a crazy man who is greater vexed about this man's eye.

2 comments:

  1. that was really good the only thing to change is your hook its kinda bland but the rest of the story is awesome

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