Examining Alternate Viewpoints

Worksheet Description

This worksheet focuses on the narrative elements in Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Tell-Tale Heart.” It includes a series of questions aimed at helping students understand the point of view, narrator, and the story’s structure:

1. Students will identify the point of view used in the story.
2. They will identify the narrator and consider the implications of an unnamed narrator.
3. Students will reflect on where the narrator obtains the information for the story.
4. They will analyze where they believe the narrator is when telling the story.
5. The worksheet prompts students to explore how the narrator justifies their actions.
6. Students will contemplate whether the story could be told from a different point of view and provide reasons for their perspective.

Through these questions, students will gain a deeper understanding of the narrative choices Poe makes in the story, encouraging critical thinking and literary analysis. This exercise fosters discussions about perspective and unreliable narration.