Image Of The 'Eye Of A Vulture'

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1.The narrator’s opinion of himself in lines 1-16 makes him seem unreliable because he says “it makes my blood run cold” which tells the reader that he’s unreliable since he’s crazy.

2.The thing that prevents the narrator from killing the old man during the first seven nights is because the old man's eye is closed.He says “I found the eye always closed”. This is because since the eye is closed he can not kill the eye since he doesn't want to kill the man just the eye.

3.The authors repeated image of the “eye of a vulture” helps to create suspense by showing that he hates the eye and he wants to end the old man because of the eye

4. Readers learn from this first person narration that the man is very anxious to end the vulture's eye and how

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