The correct answer would be B. Guilt because in Edgar Allan Poe’s “The
Tell-Tale Heart,” the beating of the heart that narrator hears is symbolic for
the guilt the narrator feels for having murdered the old man. Evidence of his guilt is presented early in
the short story by how the narrator tells us that he “had to do it” as if he
had no other choice, which seems to be a sort of defense mechanism to make
himself feel better about killing the old man.
Finally, it is within the presence of the police that the beating heart
only he hears is what makes him confess to the crime because it was getting too
great for him to bear any longer.
Hope I helped.
Theme I believe I haven't done that for awhile
If you're meaning just a sentence with these two words, then:
She approached the significant hole in the wall, peering through it, a soft sigh of defeat passing her lips when she saw that the impenetrable vault she was meant to go wasn't there.
That help any?
Answer:
When she later heard the news that an uncle had killed her attacker, she felt that her words had killed the man. She fell silent and did not speak for five years. Maya began to speak again at 13, when she and her brother rejoined their mother in San Francisco. ... 1970: Maya Angelou walks on the beach in San Francisco.
