In Edge Allen Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart" possesses many elements attributed to the mentally unstable. ... Poe's setting contributes to the total effect of madness and control in this tale. ... One would also question if the murder really heard a heart beating. ... If in fact he heard something other then his own heart, then what was it? ... This whole tale evolved around the eye. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Descent into Madness The descent into madness takes place in both story's the Tell Tale Heart and The Yellow Wallpaper. ... The Tell Tale Heart deals with an individual who is a caretaker for an elderly gentleman. ... The echo of the heart beat increases to the point where the caretakers sanity collapses and the body is revealed. ... For example The caretaker in The Tell Tale Heart believes that even with his obsession with the vulture eye does not impair his judgment or thought process. ... Edgar Allan Poe: Selected Tales. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

An ideal epic hero, a king or a warrior, in Beowulf is similar to that in the Odyssey and many other ancient tales. ... Nevertheless, with all the bragging, the hero must be sincere; everything he tells is the truth (remember, it was larger-than-life). The hero is also much like the legendary Robin Hood or Zorro; he helps out random people just out of the good heart and in the end their enemy, like Grendel, always dies from his hands. ...

• Word Count: 211
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• Grade Level: High School

In Edgar Allan Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart", the protagonist does not reveal much of himself in terms of appearance or his name. ... So, there is no way to tell what the character looks like. ... After believing the police can hear the old man's heart beat, the narrator then turns himself in. ... He also tells the story very calmly whereas a crazy person couldn't. ... Being consumed and overwhelmed by guilt, the narrator believes that the old man's heart is beating. ...

• Word Count: 779
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• Grade Level: High School

A Bronx Tale There are many issues of conflict in American society. In the movie, A Bronx Tale, lives a community that deals with these conflicts. ... Sonny told him to do what his heart tells him to do. ... The movie A Bronx Tale was a very excellent movie. ... Another lesson about the conflicts that I like was the Bronx Tale. ...

• Word Count: 1352
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• Grade Level: High School

Both of these novels tell tales of adolescents working their way through an internal or external struggle between the forces of good and evil. ... In Demian, Herman Hesse tells the tale of Emil Sinclair, a young boy who discovers an entire new world outside the life he shares with his family. ... In this novel, he tells the tale of a group of schoolboys whose plane crashed down onto a deserted island. ... Golding, much like Hesse, sees evil as existing within the hearts of men, and explores what happens when a person is removed from all responsibility to society. ...

• Word Count: 1226
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• Grade Level: High School

T he stomach rumbling, headache giving, heart pounding experience a roller coaster gives you, can't compare to the I dare you, I"ll put fear in your heart horror movies bring to the table. ... Horror movies are just the greatest little thing, so take time out to watch, one of these mythical tales and let it tell you a sick joke, so you can let loose and experience the thrill. ...

• Word Count: 472
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• Grade Level: High School

Every day she waits eagerly for his return, but as his absence grew longer and longer she becomes heart broken. One night after she cries herself to sleep she has a dream in which Lorenzo's ghost appears and tells her of his death and where he was buried. ... Without sounding overly fictional, there is a fairy tale like quality to this story. Many impossible events, like Lorenzo's ghost, Lisabetta crying herself to death, and "planting" the head of a loved one, add a surreal and fantastic shimmer to this otherwise grim tale. ...

• Word Count: 741
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• Grade Level: High School

Citizen Kane was perceived to be a classic tale of the rich not being so rich without love. ... The tale of forbidden love is the usual target for the making of a good movie. ... He tells Wyatt and he flips out. ... Run and tell them! Tell them all! ...

• Word Count: 2350
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• Grade Level: High School

She is an attractive looking fairy who lives in a land that most fairy tale creatures reside yet her home is as unique as her breed of living beings. ... The birds sing to their hearts content and fill the air with such harmony, as they sit perched high above the land on one particular elm tree. ... A hammock made of spider lace was gently swinging in the breeze and judging by the compactness of this bed you could tell that the fairy lived alone. ...

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Written in 1955, The Quiet American is a tale of a young American who is now dead because of his personal involvement in the French-Vietminh war. A British reporter, Fowler, tells the story from his point of view. ... Greene himself describes his work as being first political, then Catholic, and then political again, distinguishing early novels such as It*s a Battlefield and later novels such as The Quiet American from the major religious works of his middle period, Brighton Rock, The Power and the Glory, and The Heart of the Matter. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

However, this tale is told by a narrator who seems to believe his versions of events are the only versions that matter and it would be best suited for the reader to know more about him and what works best for him. ... The narrator truly believes that it is his duty to tell the story of Bartleby, and only by giving you the background as he sees it would the story be a full evaluation of events. At the beginning of the story the narrator begins to tell the story of his office. ... His description of himself is as follows, "I am a man who, from youth upwards, has been filled with a profound c...

• Word Count: 2175
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• Grade Level: High School

At the beginning the main Character, Lester Bernham, tells the viewer exactly what's going to happen at the end of the movie, he is going to die. ... Until she finds comfort in her new neighbor Ricky whom at first admires her from afar by taping her through her window but is not afraid to go tell her that he does in fact admire her. ... Ricky uses his camera as an extension of his eyes and heart and thinks everything beautiful especially Jane. ... Apparently this is a tale of people with an attraction to other people. ...

• Word Count: 1172
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• Grade Level: High School

The common character among these stories is a 19-year-old reporter named George Willard who, for unknown reasons, connects with the grotesques of the community and listens to their tales. ... Her ability to open up his heart and allow him to verbally express his emotions, which were previously only written on his paper pills, broke his grotesque mold. ... This story tells of a little girl's desire to be named Tandy. ... At that moment, George enters the room, her fury abates, and she casually tells George to go for a walk. ...

• Word Count: 1325
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

William Golding's most popular novel The Lord of the Flies has become a must read for all students of English literature along with the likes of Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness and E.M. ... The Lord of the Flies tells a tale of schoolboys, stranded on an island during the time of war. ... In simple words, we are all savages at heart, and if we get the chance to do something wrong knowing that no one is looking our way; we will not refrain from it, our true nature, our subconscious will take over and we will do the bad that we either suppressed, or we didn't know we were capabl...

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• Grade Level: High School

Director Sam Mendes has created a complex tale of human emotion, repression, destruction and rebirth, all linked together by one theme. ... In the shot of Ricky working at the hotel, he once again appeared like a 50's-esque heart throb in a classy lounge, because once again he was living the lie his father forced him to live. ... After Angela reveals to Lester that she is in fact a virgin, he wraps her in a blanket and tells her how beautiful is, finally being the father that his own daughter Jane often did not have. ...

• Word Count: 1983
• Approx Pages: 8