LITERATURE QUESTIONS
GOTHIC LITERATURE
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In a grave in the backyard
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In a closet
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Under the bed
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Under the floorboards
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Detailed explanation-1: -Soon, the narrator hears a dull pounding that he interprets as the old man’s terrified heartbeat. Worried that a neighbor might hear the loud thumping, he attacks and kills the old man. He then dismembers the body and hides the pieces below the floorboards in the bedroom.
Detailed explanation-2: -The victim was an old man with a filmy pale blue “vulture-eye", as the narrator calls it. The narrator emphasizes the careful calculation of the murder, attempting the perfect crime, complete with dismembering the body in the bathtub and hiding it under the floorboards.
Detailed explanation-3: -Why does the narrator seat himself and the officers in the room where the body is buried? He thinks it is the only way to keep the cops from finding the body.
Detailed explanation-4: -In “The Tell-Tale Heart, ” the narrator hides the old man’s heart, as well as the rest of his remains, beneath the floorboards of the old man’s bedchamber.
Detailed explanation-5: -9. How does the narrator dispose of the body? The narrator cuts off the old man’s head, arms, and legs in the tub, then places the pieces under the floor boards. 10.