Summary of Tell-Tale Heart

Tell-Tale Heart is a story about a mad old man who thinks that he is not mad. He thinks that he was just dreadfully nervous.From his actions, we could tell that he is very crazy. He killed the old man because of his eyes. He doesn't like the old man's eyes. Not because the old man did something that made him angry, it was because of the eyes. He observed the old man for seven continuous days. He even spent an hour just to put his head into an opened door. During the eighth night, he slowly went in the old man's room. Checked if his eyes were closed. Then he killed the old man. After killing him, he brought the old man's body back to his house. Hid the body under the floor of his room. Soon, the police came to his house for some investigation. He stayed calm at first and chatted with the police officers. As they were chatting, he heard a heart beat beating. He don't know who's heat beat it is. As he became nervous, the heart beat became louder and faster. He thought that it is from the dead body under his bedroom floor, but it is actually his own heart beat. Soon, he confessed to the police.

Hints and Foreshadowing

In the story "Tell-Tale Heart", the man said that he is dreadfully nervous, but not crazy. As we read, we it is quite obvious that he is a mad person. He has actions that the reader could tell that he is crazy, such as he killed an old man who is very nice to him, and that he confessed right after he killed the old man. These things are enough to make the reader thinks that he is crazy. In the opening paragraph the author described the crazy man in a way which is very abnormal. In the paragraph it says that "True! nervous very,very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why will you say I am mad?". It foreshadows that this story would include some scary parts and probably killing. This foreshadow can make the reader feel the mood of the story, which is more of a scary and mysterious mood.

Scary Stories

There are several different elements that could make a story or a movie scary. These elements are suspense, appearance, actions, how the character acts, and the plot of the story. Suspense is the feeling of uncertainty, which is like a mystery. This could give the audience a scary feeling of what is going to happen. The appearance is what the setting or the character looks like physically. Take a monster or a ghost or example, both of those things looks scary with their appearance. The way a setting could be scary is what feeling it gives you when you looked at it. If the setting is in a dark cave, with blood and skeletons everywhere. It may gives you a scary feeling towards the setting. Actions may give you a scary feeling. If a character chops down a person with a butter knife, it may be quite scary to watch. That is how actions can be scary. The last thing is how a character acts. Characters can act as monsters, freaks, or other scary things. Not only the appearance is scary, in order for a story or a movie to be scary, the character has to act scary too. A plot of a story could be the most important element in order to make a movie or story scary. All scary movies and stories has a scary plot, not just scary characters and settings. The plot can control most of the reactions of the audience.

Ode

Ode To Algebra

Algebra
finding the x or the y,
its like finding a needle
in a stack of hay
numbers and letters are
filling up my mind
are they equal?
less then or more then?
is it a line or a parabola?
you make me think
you make me think hard
you make me get frustrated
you always make me think,
when are you going to be used in my life....

Lunar New Year

During the Lunar New Year break, I went to Yilan for a family vacation. Every relative from my dad's family are all involved in this trip. There are several different places that we visited in Yilan. It includes a winery, an old railroad station that is now modified into a park for people to visit, and an art museum. All these places are all great places for photography. As I said, everyone from my dad's family came to the trip. Which means that all my cousins are here. We had fun playing games where we stayed for the night. The place where we stayed was excellent. It was basically a castle. It is a huge mansion with 5 different rooms and a huge living room and dinning room. Each family stayed in a different room. Every room has different styles. Some are more colorful, and others contain more of a darker color. There was a pool table in the living for us to play with too. As my parents, uncles, aunts are chatting and having tea, my cousins and I played with the pool table or other games we had. It was a wonderful way to enjoy the lunar new year break.