“The Murders in the Rue Morgue” questions (the rest of the story)

Answer on a separate sheet of paper, neatly, in ink, with a full heading!

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1.  Dupin and the narrator become involved in the case because Le Bon is arrested and he had done a service for Dupin for which Dupin is grateful.

2.  The clues that helped Dupin solve the case are the voices, the size of the hand, the strength needed to shove the daughter up the chimney and slit the mother’s throat and especially the key to all of them: the escape route of the murderer.

3.  Things that are peculiar that were mentioned in the story include the fact that besides no one being able to understand a word that the shrill voice said; the witnesses each identified the language as one that they do not understand; the money was left in the apartment, the atrocity of the murders, the entry and egress of the murderer.

4.  Dupin concludes that the murderer had to escape through one of the rear windows because there was no other way for him to escape without being seen.

5.  The murderer obtains the razor used in the murder from the dressing table of the sailor where he was attempting to shave because he had seen the sailor shave.

6.  The orangutan runs away because he is afraid the sailor will use the whip on him.

7.  Dupin painstakingly reviews the clues for the narrator so that the reader understands what has happened.

8.  The orangutan was trying to escape the sailor and he is attracted to the light in the 4th floor apartment in Rue Morgue. He climbs the lightning rod, goes in the window, kills the women, sees the sailor, panics and tries to hide what he has done

9.  Poe creates the narrator to answer any questions the reader might have.

10.  Dupin so intrigued with the case because it seems to be impossible to solve and he likes puzzles.

11.  Poe’s criteria for a detective story, is that the detective needs to have a retentive memory, needs to think creatively, and be observant.

12.  The theme of the story is that when everything that is impossible is eliminated, the truth is what is left.