From behind the dim alley, an amorphous figure lurked in the shadows.
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"They heard!–they suspected!– they knew!– they were making a mockery of my horror!– this I thought, and this I think.
Explanation:
"The Tell-Tale Heart" is a short story written by Edgar Allen Poe. The story is about an unnamed narrator who has murdered an old man and is trying to hide his crime from the police.
The line from the text, that tells that the narrator is convinced that the police has heard his heartbeat is,
<em>"They heard!–they suspected!– they knew!– they were making a mockery of my horror!– this I thought, and this I think."</em>
In this line, the narrator is thinking that the police has suspected him and heard his heartbeat which is beating louder as he has comitted a crime.
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Explanation:
HESIS QUCK CHECK
Use the thesis statement notes/tips you've been given. Remember to include 3 main points for your thesis statement.
"Where there is love there is life."
Mahatma Ghandi
Every person experiences love differently. Laughter, too, is an essential part of the human experience. In an informative essay, discuss your interpretation of the above quote, using textual evidence from assigned Quarter 1 rea
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Your supposed to ask questions:)
Alifa Rifaat's short story "Another Evening at the Club" paints a clear picture of the powerless, inferior role of women in Egyptian society: the main character Samia is trapped in an arranged marriage in which she is repeatedly forced into betraying her own values and beliefs.
For example, when Bey, her husband, says to Samia "Tell people you're from the well-known Barakat family and that your father was a judge," she is obliged to lie about her own family's social status, in spite of how she was raised to be an honest person, just for the sake of making Bey look more important in the public eye.
In the end, Bey forces Samia into the ultimate act of dishonesty: protecting a lie that is causing their servant to be tortured, only to avoid his husband's embarrassment, when he says "By now the whole town knows the servant stole the ring—or would you like me to tell everyone: 'Look,folks, the fact is that the wife got a bit tiddly on a couple of sips of beer and the ring took off on its own and hid itself behind the dressing-table."
