“Girl “

Answer the following questions about this story

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– From what point of view is Poe’s story told? Why is this point of view particularly effective for “The Tell-Tale heart”?

– Point to details in the story that identify its speaker as an unreliable narrator.

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– What do we know about the old man in the story? What motivates the narrator to kill him?

– In spite lf all his precautions, the narrator does not commit the perfect crime. What trips him up?

– How do you account for the police officers’ chatting calmly with the murderer instead of reacting to the sound that stirs the murderer into a frenzy?

– Is this really a story? Of so, why do you say so?

– Of not a story, what is it?

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