Passage 1:Passage 2: How, then, am I mad? Hearken! and observe how healthily—how calmly I can tell you the whole story. –"The Te
ll-Tale Heart," Edgar Allan Poe Which statement best explains how the passages work together to reveal that the narrator is unreliable? The narrator insists he can speak calmly and rationally, but he becomes increasingly agitated and delusional. The narrator claims he was in agony, but the reader knows he was pretending to be upset. The narrator once believed the police were mocking him, but he no longer believes this. The narrator says he wants to know the cause of his madness, but his rational behavior suggests that he is not mad.
Each genre has different elements that make it that genre, look for the elements of the story to find It's genre. (Fantasy= talking animals, Sci-Fi= flying cars, etc.)
