The Tell-Tale Heart By Carol Ann Stack Analysis

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In addition to the personal narratives, she includes an abundance of descriptions of the places she goes, the people she encounters, and the cultures she reports from. In the same story as the Palestine woman living in Jerusalem, Stack described her as, “pretty and slim from living on cigarettes and Nescafé, but her eyes were old and sad. Sometimes she drank iced vodka until she was drunk, leaning over with curses falling out of her mouth, stabbing the night with a cigarette, roaring in broken laughter.” (40). She describes the landscapes equally as detailed. “At the edge of the capital, thin mountain air was blown with fine dust and rank with rotten perfumes of garbage and sewage,” Stack wrote. “We passed trucks sagging under the weight of

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