Power Thinking for Tell-Tale Heart (76)

JOURNAL

1: Inferences about what the narrator heard when he thought he heard the old man’s heart beating

2: Narrator hears the old man’s heart beating

3: The old man was nervous causing his heart to beat loudly. He had “[sprung] up in the bed” and continued to stay awake “listening… hearkening to the deathwatches in the wall… his fears had been ever growing since the first slight noise” (Poe 79?)

3: The narrator has an “overacuteness of the senses” and he heard “the beating of the old man’s heart” after the old man had been lying awake for a long time (Poe 77).

Other inferences you could use for 2s:

2: Narrator hears his own heart beating

2: Narrator has imagined the sound of the heart beating.

Power Thinking for Tell-Tale Heart (76)

1: Inferences about what the narrator heard when he thought he heard the old man’s heart beating

2: Inference #1 (you may not use my example)

3: Proof: quote or paraphrase to support this conclusion (include pg #)

2: Inference #2

3: Proof: quote or paraphrase to support this conclusion (include pg #)