Noah Bowers

[Noah Bowers @ItsaMeYaBoiNowe]

The scene presents me with a setting of darkness and a primitive emotion of fear. Within the summarized section there is little movement, but two statues waiting for the other to make some move.

[Noah Bowers @ItsaMeYaBoiNowe]

“Silent like a cat I stood for an hour, not making a single noise, nor disturbing the darkness of the room, so too did my prey sit on his bed in silent fear, listening for the predator he suspected to pounce upon him at any moment.” (Poe, 1590.)

[Noah Bowers @ItsaMeYaBoiNowe]

I chose this wording as I find the nature of the narrator to remind me of that like a cat. Having spent much of my time with them, they’re silent, predatory glare resonates with the text itself.

[Noah Bowers @ItsaMeYaBoiNowe]

I chose the above to describe the story as I felt it accurately portrays how little we “see” and the overall plot in a concise, reasonable, manner.

[Noah Bowers @ItsaMeYaBoiNowe]

Tale-tell Heart presents us with a chilling tale, an old man who’s vulturous eye haunts the days of the narrator, seemingly driving him into madness and a state of murderous intent. Darkness and shadows offer the madman refuse as he begins his dreaded task.

[Noah Bowers @ItsaMeYaBoiNowe]

The tale uses very little speech to describe its setting beyond “darkness” and “shadows” we are required to envision the world off of sound and our own deeper glances into the story.

[Noah Bowers @ItsaMeYaBoiNowe]

Arnold, as the creep he is and his sexual nature.

[Noah Bowers @ItsaMeYaBoiNowe]

In Oates’ tale a young girl named Connie is an outsider towards her family and thinks quite highly of herself, her world however quickly comes to a dark close when a strange man who appears to have been stalking Connie for some time comes to “take her for a ride” and makes

[Noah Bowers @ItsaMeYaBoiNowe]

I am a large fan of the “movie announcer” voice and manner of speaking thus I tried to write my summary in a way to chill and thrill one’s emotions as they read over it. I used words relative to character dynamics and themes. Such as, outsider, and pointed out the man.

[Noah Bowers @ItsaMeYaBoiNowe]

As do her movements almost feel robotic after this change in person. So too does it relate that in that moment she seemed to despair and accept that she was not going to make it out.

[Noah Bowers @ItsaMeYaBoiNowe]

“And in a flash I was no longer myself, I watched as I moved without willing, my body simply answering to the orders it was given, though I was moving I knew I was dead.” (Oates, Page 2290)
#lilleyeng104

[Noah Bowers @ItsaMeYaBoiNowe]

The characterization within the above paraphrased quote, is relative to Connie’s mental snapping that led her from resisting to giving in. This shows her as being dynamic, where as she at first seemed static, obsessed with her physical appearance and nothing else.

[Noah Bowers @ItsaMeYaBoiNowe]

This relates to Emerson's discussion of virtue and charitable acts. He claims they are a poor representation of who someone is, because they must do them. Whereas the things you do for yourself represent how you see yourself and thus are a better picture of you.

[Noah Bowers @ItsaMeYaBoiNowe]

#lilleyeng104;
The shit you do for others ain’t shit compared to the shit you do for you.
(Pg. 4, Emerson)

[Noah Bowers @ItsaMeYaBoiNowe]

Through the reading, Emerson often points out the man’s desire for self-reliance. He discusses virtue being pointless, that acts of charity are wrong, and even wicked. Discussing at length the things which will make a man a man.

[Noah Bowers @ItsaMeYaBoiNowe]

#lilleyeng104;
A man cannot be made by society, only by himself.

[Noah Bowers @ItsaMeYaBoiNowe]

Next he points out that black men, and subsequently slaves, fulfill many roles in society, and finally he points out of the worship of the Christian God, and if there is anyway to really appeal to the masses back in the day it was religion.

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#lilleyeng104;

“You mean to tell me slaves aren’t men, but are required to follow laws like men?"(Pg. 386-387, Douglass)

[Noah Bowers @ItsaMeYaBoiNowe]

Douglass points out three things that I feel strongly support my paraphrase. One being that slaves are required to follow the laws of men, which can only be done by men, he points out that no one expects cattle to follow any laws, nullifying the argument that slaves aren’t human.