Completely indifferent, their failures, like their hopes, are small, even weak (Jerome, Wallace. 2007: 2827). ... Much later showed it to the narrator when they began going out though he didn't like the poem (Shmoop Editorial Team). ... They started to listen but were interrupted before the narrator can hear anything about himself. ... The narrator is watching TV, and Robert is listening. ... "My eyes were still closed. ...

• Word Count: 3978
• Approx Pages: 16
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

His wife tells the narrator that Robert and his wife, Beulah, were inseparable. ... "'Go ahead, bub, draw,' he said. ... The drawing goes on and on. ... "My eyes were still closed. ... Sometimes they were led by seeing-eye dogs. ...

• Word Count: 11148
• Approx Pages: 45
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Microsoft Electronic Publishing, 2001) We enter further into the story as the Prussians arrived, and they were billeted with the people of the area, according to their wealth and resources of each family. ... They understood, with some difficulty what she wanted and gave her their names; she insisted they write it down on a piece of paper along with their addresses of their families. ... As she was standing there watching, she was "armed with a gun, her dead son's rifle, to make sure that none of them could escape."" ... They were not allowed to vote, they were not allowed to work j...

• Word Count: 2584
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: High School

When Nat went outside he saw that thousands of gulls had risen and were trying their strength against the wind. ... When Jill gets off the bus she wants to play with the other children but Nat tells them all to go home to their parents but he doubted that they would listen. ... Outside the birds were trying their best to enter the house: scraping and tapping away. ... He realizes that from now on they were on their own; there was no one else to seek advice from ever again. ... Nat goes outside and looks around him, all he can see are dead birds; they were everywhere. ...

• Word Count: 4431
• Approx Pages: 18
• Grade Level: High School

When Nat went outside he saw that thousands of gulls had risen and were trying their strength against the wind. ... When Jill gets off the bus she wants to play with the other children but Nat tells them all to go home to their parents but he doubted that they would listen. ... Outside the birds were trying their best to enter the house: scraping and tapping away. ... He realizes that from now on they were on their own; there was no one else to seek advice from ever again. ... Nat goes outside and looks around him, all he can see are dead birds; they were everywhere. ...

• Word Count: 4405
• Approx Pages: 18
• Grade Level: High School

I have watched movies that were created from his textual creations, read his poems, and his stories. ... Although their original relationship with each other is one of respect and love, the situation soon changes. ... Now the story has an added twist as the narrator hopes that the reader, like himself, will be convinced that these events were not "...an ordinary succession of very natural causes and effects." ... Poe relates "eyes" and "teeth" in their single capacity to take in or to incorporate objects. ... The narrator goes to great lengths to scientifically explain the apparition of the...

• Word Count: 4324
• Approx Pages: 17
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School