An Analysis of the Unreliable Narrator in The Tell-Tale Heart

The Tell-Tale Heart is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe. The story is first-person narrative of a narrator who murdered an old man with a clouded eye. This paper aims at identifying the speaker"I"as an unreliable narrator through analyzing the motivation, process and confession of the crime. It is found out that the narrator symbolizes man of evil, while, the old man’s vulture eye symbolizes virtue. It’s a story about the conflict between evil and virtue.     

STORIES ABOUT FAMOUS PERSONS

A story About Mozart One day Mozart saw an old man playing the violin at the street corner.He found that the old man was playing one of his compositions (乐曲).The old man played for some time,but the cap in front of him was still empty-nobody put any money into the cap.Mozart asked the old man," Do you often play compositions by Mozart?" The old man answered." Now everybody knows Mozart and likes his compositions.""Do you make a living by playing the violin?" The old man said he did.Mozart took over the violin from the old man and began to play.     

名人论“智慧”

Mark Twain:When I was a boy of fourteen,my father was so ignorant[愚昧的] I could hardly stand to have the old man around.But when I got to be twenty-one,I was astonished[惊讶的] at how much the old man had learned in seven years.     

A Teacher of the Old School

My grandfather was a teacher. He was the headteacher of a school for boys between the ages of thirteen and eighteen. I know that he was a kind and gentle man at heart, because when I was young(and he was old), he gave me presents, and sat me on his knee, and told me stories. But I believe the boys at his school were afraid of him.     

高中英语新课标选修七 Unit 2 Robots读写训练步步高

一、完形填空On the outskirts of a town in England nestles a nice cottage with a large garden where there lives an old man.The old man is seen pruning,watering or1his flowers all the time.The garden is so2that every passer-by cannot but halt for a glance.One day a young painter went by the old man’s garden.He3the splendid garden and the     

What Is Beauty?

It seems that beauty and women are twins. You are joking? No, I am not. Observe for yourself. Ads on fashion flood TV screens, radio programs, magazines, newspapers, and the streets. Whether they have realized or not, women are besieged by a sea of fashions. They are taught to think that without beautiful clothes they will grow old and lose their charm. So who dares to neglect dressing up at the cost of their appearance and youth?     

时间前介词的省略

Pat Hogan was traveling around the country in the car. One evening he was driving along a road and looking for a small hotel when he saw an old man at the side of the road. He stopped his car and said to the old man, “I want to go to the Sun Hotel. Do you know it?“     

Listen to Wise Old Man The Archetype of Nick Caraway in The Great Gatsby

The Great Gatsby has been one of the most discussed topics,researchers has explored it from various aspects.In the researches,Nick Carraway was mainly seen as a narrator,and the research are mostly focus on the shift of his narrative prospective.Few people noticed that he was totally fit into the definition of the " wise old man".This paper tries to put an eye on the archetype of the hero Nick Carraway,whose figure is thought as in the archetype of the " wise old man".     

作为比较的as与like之区别

Have you ever seen the man in the moon?If you look closelyat the moon on some nights, you can see the face of the man in themoon. Some people say that they can see an old man carryingsticks. Others see a girl reading a book. These pictures are madeby the mountains (山脉) and plains (平原) of the moon.     

Two Lies

Once there lived an old man. He liked listening to lies. He said, ＂Any man who can tell me two lies can marry my only daughter.＂ So a lot of young men in the country came to his house. But he said to all of them, ＂I＇m not pleased with your lies. I wouldn＇t give my daughter to any of you.＂ One day, a young man said, ＂It will be hot in the summer, so you should go out now and dig a big hole under the street. When the hot summer weather comes, you Will sell the cool air from the hole and get a lot of money.＂ ＂Oh, what a wonderful lie!＂ answered the old man.     

On My Way Home

I will tell you a real story. Last Saturday when I was on my way home,I saw an accident.A little boy rode a bike and knocked down an old man.But the little boy didn蒺t say sorry to the old man. So the old may was very angry.He hit the boy in his face .At this time, the little boy蒺s bike was in the middle of the road, but the people seemed to see nothing. So the traffic was blocked.They were all standing around the bike. Just then, a foreigner walked up and took the bike to the other side …     

油漆未干

1 .A young man and an old man are I walking in the park.The old man is behind the young man.一位年轻人和一位老人正步行在公园里。老人走在年轻人的后面。     

STORIES

A David was a young man who worked in an office in a big city.He liked fishing very much,but did not often get a chance to go fishing. Then one summer he decided to have a holiday in a beautiful place in the mountains where there were a lot of streams."I will be able to have some good fishing there," he said to himself. The first morning after he arrived,he carried his fishing rod and walked to the nearest stream.He saw an old man standing beside the water,so he asked him whether it was a private (私人的) stream.The old man answered that it was not.Then he asked,"Well,then it won't be a crime (犯罪) if I catch some fish here,will it?"     

JOKE

<正>An old man died and left his son a lot of money. But the son was a foolish young man, and he quickly spent all the money, so that soon he had noth-ing left. Of course, when that happened, all his friends left him. When he was quite poor and alone, he went to see Nasreddin, who was a kind, clever old man and often helped people when they had troubles. "My money has finished and my friends have gone,"said the young man. “What will happen to me now?”     

A “Clever” Steward（初二适用）

A very rich man bought a farm and paid more than it was worth(有……价值的)because a very old tree was growing there and it was said that it was 300years old.When he was back in the city,many of the people did not believethe tree was that old,so the new owner called his steward(管家)to check thetree’s age.     

A Künstlerroman:On the Growth Process of the Protagonist in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

A Künstlerroman is a literary genre that focuses on the psychological and moral growth of the protagonist from youth to adulthood, and in which character change is thus extremely important. A portrait of the artist as a young man as a Künstlerroman also shows the growth process of the protagonist from childhood to youth. The paper aims to point out the growth process of the protagonist focusing on the text. Especially, from the two aspects: content and form. The content and the form together reflect the growth process of the protagonist and the development of his personality, so we also see the protagonist was destined to be mature and at last decided to escape his home, exile himself and began his new life with the purpose of art.     

I Call Him Tom

A man wanted to sell his old horse, so he took him to the market. Because the horse was old, nobody wanted to buy him, but at last a young man stopped in front of him and said, "How old is he?" "He is twenty-one years old," said the older man. "Ho…     

完形填空齐齐看

(A) Yesterday evening,when I went to town 1my mother,we met a strange old man. It was raining 2and we had no umbrella.We were trying to3a taxi when he came up to us.He was carrying a nice umbrella and he said that he would give 4for only a pound.He had forgotten his wallet.He said he needed taxi to go back home.My mother didn't believe what he had said at first,and5 him a lot of questions.But she finally believed the man and gave him the pound.She was happy to6 a good umbrella for so little.However,the old man didn't get into a taxi.We walked7 him and found he went into a pub and bought himself a glass of 8with the pound.After he drank it,he 9~his hat and took up one of the many wet umbrellas there and went off with the new one.     

A Kind-hearted Old Man

An old gentleman was walking slowly along a street one day whenhe saw a little boy trying to reach a doorbell,which was too high for him.He was a kind-hearted old man,so he stopped and said,"I will ring thebell for you." And then he pulled the bell so hard that it could be heard allover the house.     

Character Contrast in Arthur Miller''s Death of a Salesman

“I regard the theater as a serious business,one that makes or should make man more human,which is to say,less alone.“A great playwright of social philosophy,Arthur Miller advocares that the common man,and none of rank,is the tragic hero of modern times.His plays have always revealed before the public eyes the tragedy of the average American life,the psychology of the ordinary people,and their conflicts with the morality of society.……