For three hours and a half in a courtroom at Boise, Ohio, Harry Orchard assembled in the witness

Jumping back into the past, Gregory Orr tells the incident when he and a group of five hundred of men, women, teenagers, and old folks assemble in Jackson, Mississippi. In Jackson for a peaceful demonstration, Gregory Orr and the rest of the group were arrested and taken away “to the county fairgrounds” (128, 1). Where they was beaten by officers of the law, Orr stated, “I emerged into the outdoors and the bright sunlight and saw them-two lines of about fifteen highway patrolmen on either side. I was ordered to walk, not run, between them. Again I was beaten with nightsticks, but this time more thoroughly, as I was the only target” (129, 2). Once freed from his captors, Gregory Orr gets in his car to head back north, but on his way back he was pulled over by flashing lights. Thinking it was the police; Gregory Orr pulled over and was approached by two white men. One of the white men said, “Get out, you son of a bitch, or I’ll blow your head off” (133, 3). The two white men takes Gregory Orr’s wallet and tell him to follow them, Scared for his life, Gregory Orr did exactly what the two men told him to do. After following the two men, Gregory Orr is back in jail in Hayneville. “Already depressed and disoriented by the ten days in jail in Jackson, I was even more frightened in Hayneville,” (136, 1) stated by Gregory Orr.

In Poe’s “The Tell-Tale Heart,” the narrator is so bothered by an old man’s eye that he decides to kill him. In the end, he thinks he hears the beating of the old man’s heart even after he has died, so the narrator confesses to the police. Throughout the story, the narrator keeps insisting he is sane, “but why will you say that I am mad? The disease has sharpened my senses – not destroyed-not dulled them... How, then, am I mad?” (Poe). However, despite his constant justification of his judgment, on cannot help but question the narrator’s true sagacity.

In the short story “The Tell-Tale Heart” by Edgar Allan Poe creates the guilty character of an unnamed narrator through indirect characterization. Using the components of actions, dialogue, and motivations, Poe depicts a story about immorality and reveals confidence can cause a person to lose their awareness of a situation.

There are stories he incorporates to illustrate the point. In the middle we move to a more self-centered narrative. He tells of his story in New Jersey where he realized he could kill someone. He shares some of his thoughts of why people acted as they did towards him and others. This is an effective way he uses narrating and analyzing to work for the reader’s understanding.

The narrator though an educator, is not very good at verbalizing his emotions. He tends to be the person who keeps everything inside

A notable tension that was written about in this document was the cruel and harsh treatment of the accused by the justices. Cary relays that his wife’s treatment was inhumane, physically abusive and demeaning. During testimony, she was asked to stand for a long period with her arms stretched out. Cary’s wife was crying and afraid that she might faint. When Cary asked if he could help support her, “Justice Hathorne replied, she had strength enough to torment those persons, and she should have strength enough to stand.” When Cary spoke out against this treatment, he was told to be silent or that he would be removed from the room. Cary’s wife was later taken down on the floor by one of the witnesses. Cary spoke out on “their inhumane dealings, uttered a hasty speech (that God would take vengeance on them, and desired that God would deliver us out of the hands of unmerciful men)”.

The author writes, “Much of his past was unhearted and all disreputable tales come out of the man’s cruelty at once, so callous and violent of his vile-life.” (Stevenson, )

The cumulative effect of this perspective is that if the judge is hard on the allegedly obscene editors and misrepresents their defence to the jurors, this would only be what you would expect of such a second-rate individual. Robertson’s presentation, based on truth, is heavily influenced by bias and opinion against the judge and, thereby, in favour of the defendants. The eventual verdict of guilty is seen to be inevitable. The editors were sent to prison for psychiatric examination.

In “The Tell-Tale Heart,” Edgar Allen Poe depicts a gruesome tale. His use of dark imagery and harsh words make this story an unmistakable product of the Dark Romantic period. Poe’s use of the first person narrator adds an important dimension to the story. The narrator’s thoughts are eating him alive and Poe clearly portrays this to readers by repeating words and having the narrator constantly question himself:

The dark and eerie tone of the murder story and its unusual setting contribute to the story’s theme of defense of one’s honor and avenging wrongdoing. The haughtiness and conceited attitudes of the two men create an extension of this theme in which Poe wants to show how far some men will go when they receive a blow to the ego. The story’s setting in the

Through an intellectual lense he is able to add to the story in which it feels less like a prose piece and more like an extension of the manuscript we may have actually stumbled apon. It is told through logic rather then emotion, like a news segment, where all the events are laid out to the reader, then afterwards you are able to react. The rare thing this story is able to do, which is inflict personal fear into the readers minds makes it a terror story. In the end he reveals the uncle

It shows that even though he had many hidden talents, he decides to hide them for the better and be a gentleman. He also urges over the fact that he has to be a role model for his children.

Just short of four pages, the piece follows the thoughts and feelings of one man, Anders, who cannot stop criticizing even if it means life or death. During a bank robbery that Anders is caught in, he responds to an unoriginal phrase said by a robber, “Did you hear that?...Bright boy. Right out of ‘The Killers,’” (Wolff 74). Anders comments on the cliche of a phrase, mocking the man with a gun without a care. Doing so is suppose to make him seem deranged, outrageous, a preposterous action that any sane person would not do. At first I believed this was suppose to be the selling point of the story. That because this man was so candid and had no filter, this story was suppose to be an amazing literature piece that baffles many. Instead I found Anders to be boring, and his unfiltered rudeness annoying because it had lacked motivation. Ander’s criticized everything for no reason, and his reactions and thoughts seemed to have no depth or motive, which caused me to lose interest in this one dimensional character. But as I completed the narrative and reached the end, the plot began to unravel and the reasoning behind his actions became deeper and more complex.

The author uses a jocular tone to conclude to show that the explanation given by the lawyer was absurd. Stated in paragraph 10-12, “I was boiling two bushels of corn and planting in my field this morning.” The courtroom filled with laughter. Including the laughter tells that this part of the story was

I have thought of narratives to be lyrical composition that often influence our conceptions of novels, texts, films and poetry. It is no surprise that we are quick to make false interpretation of a subject without considering the rank of the literature aspect. Often more than not, we are yielded to rush and pick meanings without substituting the context the fictional character dismays. In Lockhart’s We were Liars readers have been skeptic to the events that contour the bulk of the book. Through the lens of the unreliable character Cadence, the reader is transcended on a whirl wind to separate the gimmicks of fictional and realistic events that happen within the framework of the novel.