Question

can someone help me think of ideas for a retold sorta different setting and ending for the short story Tell Tale Heart? Anyone also in ashworthonline highschool taking reading and literaturepart 2 should tell me what they did......and explain how they did it

Answer 1

No Idea!! sorry :(
well i'm going to sleep if i found anything related to your topic in my Dreams i'll tell u in morng ...bye

Answer 2

Alright Haha Well thanks anyway:)

Answer 3

Tell Tale Heart is about an Old Man's caretaker that went nuts and killed him. But his conscience is making him believe that he can still hear the Old Man's heart beating beneath the floorboards where he hid the body. Then the Police come, and the caretaker crumbles and tells them what he did. Right? :3

Answer 4

@phi

Answer 5

yup:)

Answer 6

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/2148/2148-h/2148-h.htm#link2H_4_0019
thats the whole story

Answer 7

mkay

Answer 8

so like i have to write the story twice once with the ending changed and the othe rwith the setting changed but not really changed but i just have to retell it differently

Answer 9

that really doesnt sound too bad

Answer 10

with the ending changed

surely you can think of a different ending than the guy confesses...

Let's say the guy is nuts. what else might he do instead of confessing?

One simple ending.... they find him drooling, and cannot speak. they carry him off to the mental hospital... Try to imagine what a crazy person might do

Answer 11

okay thanks:)
but what about the setting what does it mean ?

Answer 12

just change the place where the scene is happening. Instead of the Old man's house, make it a mental ward, or a cabin in the middle of nowhere.

Answer 13

retell it differently

a different setting... a different place, slightly different characters. crazy babysitter with a child (too gruesome). the culprit is a woman. Change a few things

Answer 14

okay that makes sense but how could i put that in the story line ? with out doing it weird? :)

Answer 15

the child and babysitter seems cool:)

Answer 16

but the child is the one that does the murder XD what a twist!

Answer 17

oooh yeah that would be cool :)

Answer 18

I would pick a culprit and a victim. The main idea is that the culprit goes mad from the guilt and does something crazy to give themselves away.

Answer 19

do you mean culprit like... what?

Answer 20

the one who did it X3

Answer 21

I meant pick a person who does the murder. It does not have to be a caretaker.

Answer 22

oh okay i see sorry brainfart..... um okay thaks thats helps alot :) !!!

Answer 23

Good luck

Answer 24

thanks;)