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Point of View and the Unreliable Narrator — Homework
Reread the opening paragraph of "The Tell-Tale Heart" aloud before answering.
- 1.Name the three points of view covered this week.
- 2.Quote or paraphrase one claim the narrator makes about himself, and one piece of evidence that contradicts it.
- 3.Is the heartbeat at the end best explained as guilt or as something supernatural? Defend your answer with one piece of evidence.
- 4.Explain in your own words why a story about guilt is more powerful told in first person than in third-omniscient.
- 5.Describe, in five or more sentences, a movie or book with an unreliable narrator and the one clue that revealed it.
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