Just integrate a quote in your last paragraph on "The Black Cat." Plan for "The Tell-Tale Heart": 1. Your goal is to prove, as you are doing, that the narrator's examples, used by him to prove his rational thinking, demonstrate the opposite -- that the narrator is rightly placed in a psychiatric facility. 2. Start each paragraph on Tale 2 by defining the second narrator's various "proofs" of sanity. Then show that his examples prove that he is completely delusional. Suggested ideas to develop for "The Tell-Tale Heart": A. In your analysis of Tale 2, demonstrate that this second unreliable narrator, who kills the "evil" eye, also cannot be trusted because, despite his proclamations to prove his sanity, everything he says reinforces the opposite -- that the narrator is irrational and delusional. B. Show how he claims to love the old man, while wanting to kill his "evil" eye. Maybe he believes that the eye sees something evil inside his own heart some darkness that he loathes about himself. The motive for murder is completely irrational. C. Demonstrate how the narrator proudly shares his precalculated murder preparations -- opening the door for one hour, then taking another hour to move his head through the opening, then waiting for seven nights for the evil eye to open, then directing the ray of light onto the "evil eye." It sounds erratic and delusional. D. The description of the murder itself is bizarre--he is jumping into the room and turning the bed over old man. Then he jumps on the bed. E. You should certainly talk about the heart his own (guilty?) heart with the dead man's heart -- during the murder and when the police come over. Delusional? He believes that the heart of the old man informed on him to the police. Paranoia? how the narrator twice confuses the beating of F. In the first paragraph of his story the narrator declares that he is able to hear voices in heaven and in hell. Sounds possibly like a paranoid schizophrenia? G. The murderer's behavior in front of the police is also completely psychotic. H. !! In the last paragraph about Tale 2 on page 7, answer if the bragging narrator is subconsciously denying his guilty conscience. He hears his own heart but thinks it's the heart of the old man. He grinds the chair over the spot where he buried his victim. He confesses to the police but thinks the old man's heart told on him. I. Important for the intertextual component: In your analysis of Tale 2, periodically establish relevant connections and relationships (compare/contrast) to the narrator's story in Tale 1, comparing both murderers' mindsets. Do so in your own words. No more quotes from "The Black Cat."/n 1. Open Organizational Chart (in Assignments) and see instructions and possibilities for the conclusion. 2. We spend 2 research classes practicing how find 2 articles on the databases and how to create the Works Cited entries. I also showed how to integrate and document supportive quotes from the research articles. 3. See Guide to the Databases (in Assignments) and follow MLA templates for integrating and documenting quotations from research articles. Requirements for The Final Draft 1. Conclusion should start only in the middle of page 7 (or later) and should be developed on 1/2 page (or a bit longer). 2. Conclusion should integrate 2 quotes from 2 research articles from the scholarly databases (the ones practiced in class and described in "Guide to the databases" in Assignments). The quotes should be separated by several sentences of your own ideas. No Google! Work only with the databases -- JSTOR, Research Proquest Library (for "The Black Cat"), and/or Academic Search Premier. 4. Research Guide to the Databases has many examples on how to integrate and document quotes from research articles. -- 5. Create Works Cited page on page 8 (or if your final draft is longer on page 9). It is fine for the final draft to be longer. The Works Cited is always a separate page. 6. The Works Cited page should ALPHABETICALLY document 2 Tales and 2 research articles. Instructional Video on Research (Course Information) and Research Guide (in Assignments) show how to create Works Cited entries for critical articles and Poe's tales. You You should copy/paste Works Cited entries for Poe's tales from the last page of the Organizational Chart. Both databases have a special feature for creating a Works Cited entry. Select MLA (8th or 9th edition) in the drop box.