Readers for Life: Tell-Tale Heart

Tuesday, September 20, 2011

Tell-Tale Heart

I thought this was a terrific tale by Edgar Allen Poe. The best part of this story for me was the suspense building up as the narrator slowly broke down mentally. Also the narrator's dissimulation intrigued me. "No doubt I now grew very pale, but I talked more fluently and with a heightened voice." (pg. 13) As I read through the climax of the start it made my heart slowly race. I have yet to come across a story similar to the "Tell-Tale Heart". Personally it is one of my favorite stories.

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James HornerSeptember 20, 2011 at 9:39 AM
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Romanticism in American Art

Reading about Asher Durand can help you understand what he was trying to accomplish in the painting "Kindred Spirits," formerly exhibited in the New York Public library. Today's blog is for you to find another painting in the American Romantic tradition, post it on your blog and describe its Romantic aspects.
(some of these may include benevolent aspect of Nature, the individual, concern with feeling more than with some message or idea, classical antiquity of Greece or Rome, and death.)
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