The Vulture Eye

Tell tale heart

Tell tale heart is a story narrated by a guy who says people claim him to be crazy. This man tells us how he managed to sneak in to the room of an old man who had a "vuture eye" and stared at him at his sleep. Every time he saw the eye, the man got angry, finally ending up killing the old man and handing himself out to the police because of guilt.

"His eye was like the eye of a vulture, the eye of one of those terrible birds that watch and wait while an animal dies, and then fall upon the dead body and pull it to pieces to eat it". The author uses a type of imagery that makes you feel uneasy. The author uses this so you can feel what the crazy man in the story goes through, and makes you picture a specific scene.

 

The crazy man

" Its true, Yes! I have been ill, very ill". The man explains he is 'ill' but not crazy, the character knows that he has something wrong, but won't admit it. Instead, he tries to change the story so it looks like it wasn't bad. "Then, carefully, I lifted the cloth, just a little, so that a single, thin, small light fell across that eye.  For seven nights I did this, seven long nights, every night at midnight" This can make us picture that the character is beggining to act irrationally, which might lead him to something unexpected. These are hints the author gives us to what might happen; he makes us picture many different scenes making us wanna read more.

Tell tale heart is a short, although very suspensive story. It makes you keep wondering what might happen next, or what you think shouldn't happen. The story drags you in, really making you wanna read it until the very end.

Get ready for your exam...

Review

Examiation day is about a kid who has a normal life, just like ours. He then finds out that on his 12th birthday he needs to take a test that is nothing like the school ones. His parents start getting worried and hide something from Dickie. After Dickie takes the test, a drone informs he was above average and said this afterwards: "Wether his body interred by the givernment, or would you prefer a private burial place?"

This story's imagery is not too descriptive, but it manages to create a good picture in your head of the character's situation. Another thing the author does is create a kind of suspense with the imagery.

"here a single wooden armchair faced a multi-dialled computing machine. There was a microphone on the left arm of the chair, and when the boy sat down, he found its pinpoint head conveniently at his mouth" How did they know this? had his government been watching him before the test?

Now I wanna talk about how the Jordans' behaviour was affecting the book's development. On the book we can see Mr. Jordan behaving strangely. He is clearly angry or worried about something and is hiding it from Dickie."-Forget about it,- he said. -He’ll do all right-". "Nobody knows,- his father snapped, then immediately regretted his abruptness." Why is Mr. Jordan like this? You would get the answer later. As any other parent, Mr Jordan is worried about his son and wants to take care of him, so he tries to explain to Dickie how the test will go. "Now, it’s nothing to worry about. Thousands of children take this test every day. The Government wants to know how smart you are, Dickie. That’s all there is to it.’' . There is a noticable mood of sadness and worries.

This story was really interesting to read. It has a way of creating suspension to you. the story also turns around everything after you know how things really are with the 'simple test'. This story explains how our lives are chosen and managed by technology too.