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The Tell Tale Heart
The Tell Tale Heart was about this guy who insisted he wasn't crazy and he told this story about a man whose eye was blue, and made him nervous. He loved this old man but whenever his eye fell on him, his blood ran cold. He then decided to get rid of his eye forever. He planned to kill the man. So every night he peeked in on the man while he was sleeping. He di this for eight days. On the eighth day of doing this, the old man awakened to a sound and sat up in bed for an hour listening. Finally he opened his lattern and shone the light on his eye and the old man's heart started pounding hard. The crazy man couldn't handle it. He thought the neighbors would hear, so he tackled the old man, and the man screamed and his heart stopped. He burried the old guy under the floor.In the morning the plice came and asked to look around. They got done looking around and he asked them to sit down, and then he started to get paranoid and thought he was hearing the old guy's heart beat through the floor and he told on himself, so he really was crazy. The line that I think represents this story, is on pg 3. "He had the eye of a vulture- a pale blue eye, with a film over it... I made up my mind to take the life of the old man, and thus rid myself of the eye forever." I think it's this line because the story is about how he is paranoid of the eye, and him trying to kill this old guys, and that's what this line was about.
The main character was crazy, but he denied it. Throughout the story he kept saying that he wsn't mad or crazy, and that if he was crazy, he wouldn't have been able to do what he did and stay sane. But that is the reason he is crazy, because he was able to do what he did, and not flip out. He said that he loved the man, and that the old man never offeneded him, but there was something about him that made him paranoid. He came to the conclusion that it was the man's eye. He said that whenever the eye fell upon him, it made his blood run cold. So he mad this plan to kill the old man. And when he opened the door on the last day, the light fell on upon his eye, and that kind of set him off, and he jumped on the old man and killed him. So in a way, the ey provoked him. A line that I think represents the character is on pg 8. I think that this line, "Villians! Disemble no more! It is the beating of his hideous heart!" represents the character because he was crazy, and he turned himself in, when the police didn't suspect him. It was his guilty conscience and paranoia, and phsyco ways that made him kill the innocent old guy, and turn himself into the police. Him doing all of these things, showed that he was not mentally stable.
The theme of this story I think, is death. Throughout the story he is planning the death of this old man, and then he carries out the plan. And in his other stories that he has written, they are alson about death. So Edgar Allen Poe, bases his stories on "death". He repeats over and over again that he is not crazy. He says these things in a lot of his stories, so he seems to be obsessed with people thinking he is crazy, and that he has to constantly tell them that he is not crazy to kind of comfort himself from their ridicule. Some global things that he includes in this story is time.He makes all of his attempts to kill this man at 12:00 midnight, everynight. He says the time a couple of times throughout the story. The theme could also be about his obsession with "not being crazy". A line in this story that represents the theme is on pg.3. "True! Nervous- very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and I am! But why will you say that I am mad?... How, then am I mad? Harken! and observe how healthily and calmly I can tell you the whole story." I think this line represents the story because he is obsessed with proving to people that he is not crazy, but he isn't phased that he just killed a man.

A Word That Defines Me

One word that describes me would be hard to pick. So some words that I think describe me are:

1) Youthful- which means, young, or being young. I think I am youthful because, I don't really look my age. Almost everyone thinks that I am younger than I actually am. When I tell them my age, they don't really believe me. I also, think this word describes me because I am still young.

2)Offbeat-means original. I think this word describes me because I don't really follow the crowd. I do what I want. And I think what I want. I don't let anybody else think for me. I am my own person.

3)Talented- means endowed with one or more talents. I think it describes me because I have a lot of talents. I can play musical instruments, I can make things, and I am good at sports.

4)Fearless- means free from fear. I like this word because, no one really is free from fear. Everyone has a fear, they just may not know what that fear is necessarily. Fearless to me means that you face your fears and go out and live your life on a daily basis, that makes you fearless. You are fearless when you don't let anything or anyone hold you back and stop you from doing what you want to do. Fearless is not giving up. Fearless is living in spite of your fears.

Today in History

Well, yesterday in history, we took notes on the French Revolution. It was kind of interseting. Louis XIV left France deeply in debt. He had engaged in deficit spending. He had a lavish lifestyle, which was incredibly costly. I was thinking that this king was pretty stupid because he kept spending money that wasn't even there, and he didn't care about his people.Then there were bad harvests in the late 1780's, that sent food prices soaring and brought hunger to poor people and peasants and city dwellers. I thought that it was kind of cool that the 3rd estate declared themselves to be the national assembly and invited delegates from the other two estates to help them write a constitution. Then when the reform -minded clergy and nobles joined the assembly, Louis XIV grudgingly accepted it. I also thought it was cool that on July 14, 1789, more than 800 parsians gathered outside the Bastille, and demanded weapons. This became a symbol of the French Revolution.

Today in Math

Today in math was just like any other day in math.... boring. I'm always confused in my math class. Today he handed back the test that we took last week, and of course I knew what I got on it... The same as the last test that we took, and the one before it, and the one before that one. An "F", so I wasn't too suprised. Of course I was sad about it, but not suprised. At least I tried. Then I thought that 7.3 Homework was due today, so I started to do it, while he was going over some homework problems for 7.4. Then when I was done with the homework for 7.3, he said that he wasn't going to be collecting that homework today, so I kind of rushed through it for nothing. At least I won't have to do it later. Then the bell rang and I left. But don't think I didn't learn anything today because I did. I learned that if you have the same denominator but different numerators, you can just combine and simplify... ok, maybe I already knew that, but that's the only thing that I remember that I did right in that class today. So my math class wasn't too interesting today.

My Favorite Kind of Music

My favorite kind of music is..... Country. I am open to any kind of music as long as it sounds good, and has good, relatable lyrics, and of course a good sound. I don't just listen to a song that doesn't mean anything to me. It has to "speak to me". And if it doesn't "speak to me" in any way, I won't listen to it. I like songs that open up your mind and make you view something in a different way. A song that changes your outlook on something and makes you wonder about it. I also like songs that have a cool beat that sticks in your head forever, and you can't get it out of your head. I don't like songs that say things over and over again towards the end, those songs are annoying to me. And most of the country music that I listen to meets all of the things that I talked about, and that's why country music is my favorite.

Windy Day

As you all know, they call the wind Mariah... but that's not the point of this post. My point is that, all of the sudden when I got home after practice, the wind just started blowing really hard, and blowing things around, and then I remembered my dog Cocoa, which by the way is the bestest dog in the whole world, was outside, so I ran and let him in so that he wouldn't blow away with the wind. But the wind is a very powerful element. Weather is very interesting to me, I like nature, I think it's cool. And I also noticed that the trees and other flowers are starting to bloom.

Cloudy Days

Cloudy days are the best! I like when it's cloudy because it is kind of relaxing... It's not all bright outside, but it's not dark... it's just right. I like when it's rainy, but not cold. When it's cold, you can't really enjoy the rain because it's... cold. So cloudy, rainy days that aren't cold... are the best!