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    his weak grasp upon reality. This is seen in the way he attributes special powers to the old man’s eye and in his incomprehension towards neighbours hearing the final heartbeats of his victim. First of all, the narrator associates fictional powers with the old man’s pale blue eye. For example, after he had replaced all the floorboards “so cleverly” (Poe, p.8) he proceeds to explain that “no human eye-not even his-could have detected anything…

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    I leap away from cold, fierce eyes set in a stony face. But for the blood drawing down dour lips, its’ chiseled features are indifferent to the hot rage in its’ eyes. I recoil, but my back slams hard against the dank crypt wall. I would rip my terrified stare from the creature, if I could and I know not to turn my back to the beast. I don’t have to look to know that my friend lies dead at the feet of the immortal. The monster had tossed Chris’s limp body aside, as if he were a slurped…

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    Gallagher, once stated. This statement can be seen by Edgar Allan Poe, with his story, “The Tell Tale Heart.” To begin with, the story started in the 1800s, a vexed butler, also the narrator of the story, was paranoid about an old man’s pale, blue “vulture eye.” The butler stalked the old man every night, when he fell asleep. Until one night, he made a slight noise that appalled the old man; the loud beating of the old man’s heart infuriated the butler, so he suffocated him, and dissected his…

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    the narrator speaks of the old man's eye is just one of the many examples of how he is truly a mad man, a mad man with multiple psychopathic tendencies. He not only killed the old man that he liked so very much because of his sinister eye but he also cut him up into tiny pieces and hid him in the floorboard beneath his feet! The narrator didn't have a heart, he didn't feel sympathy or remorse for the old man when he killed him. Infact, he felt relieved that the eye could haunt him no more. Not…

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    old man, whom the narrator lives with. In the story the narrator perceives that the killing of the old man was a just killing, because the narrator claims to be cursed by the old man’s vulture eye-which was not an evil vulture eye at all, but he was either blind in that one eye or he had a cataract in the eye. Throughout the story, Edgar Allan Poe uses POV, Imagery, and Irony, and many others-but the essay is about the irony, imagery, and point of view. In “The Tell-Tale Heart” Poe sets a…

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    different ideas that come to mind when speaking of color. Whether it may be the different sensations of the eye from the reflection of light, how a person’s character is perceived by another, or in other cases it can be used in a metaphorical sense. Artist use these albums cover to relay a message to someone about what could be found within the album, it’s not likely that you would find a dark or evil cover for something with faint peaceful music. Another example of how one defines color can…

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    like, realizing stuff!” Dragon Kylie rambled. “Not so fast! I saved you from Princess Hermione because I wanted to be the one to make you suffer! So I am taking you to the Forbidden Forest and holding you hostage,” Castiel said with an evil look in her eyes as she began grabbing Dragon Kylie’s scaly…

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    Skye's eyes blinked twice and he noticed me naked underneath Blaze. "Whoa! what is going on here!" Skye questioned with great shock. "NOTHING!! NOTHING IS GOING ON!" Blaze barked with great frustration and embarrassment.…

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    constant struggle of good vs. evil, representing life, a guide, a force, or to describe speed, light is almost always a positive that often relates to a person being on the pathway to happiness. The many elements and meanings of light are illustrated in various biblical texts, shakespearean works, and many modern news articles. Since the beginning of man there has always been the constant struggle of good versus evil. A common metaphor for good versus evil, is light versus…

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    story, uses background music. It was produced in 2008 as part of a project from Freak Daddy Productions, this story stars Sebastian Montoya as the servant, a man who tells the story which he confess to having killed an old man because of its “vulture” eye. After the beginning of the story, a piano starts to play as the background music representing a mystery theme while the narrator is writing, with pen and ink, the story which he confess to having killed an old man, finishing with the famous…

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