A Tell Tale Heart

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A Tell Tale Heart

• Presentation By
• Amelia Hawkins, Clara Johnson, Jenny Murphy, and
  Colleen Hay

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Comprehension Questions
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What leads the narrator to kill his friend?

• His friends vulture eye

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What supports does the narrator give to prove he
is not mad?

• Precise Killing
• Hiding of the body
• How he stands outside the victims door each night
• Deceiving the police

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What happens when the friend hears his killer at
the door?

• He hears something in the dark and sits up in bed.

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What does the narrator do with the body?

• He dismembers the body and hides it under the
  floor boards.

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What room does the narrator take the police to?
Why?

• He takes them to the murder scene (his friends
  bedroom)
• He is so sure of himself that he feels he can
  fool them even at the scene

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What does the narrator do at the end of the story?

• He is driven completely insane by the beating
  heart
• He has gone so completely insane that he
  confesses to the crime and pulls the heart out of
  the floor boards

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What does he compare the beating heart to?

• A ticking clock

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Discussion Questions
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What is the importance of the eye and what does
it represent?

• The eye represents the narrators insanity and it
  was driving force for him to murder his friend.
• Shows his lack of humanity. He only sees the eye
  not the person behind it.

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How does the man separate the friend he claims
to love from the eye he apparently loathes?

• His sole focus is on the eye. He no longer sees
  his friend. He sees the eye as a separate entity.

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Is the narrator crazy or merely sadistic?

• Opinion Question