Chapter 12

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Chapter 12 “To See a Ghost”
Astounded (112): amazed surprised
Daft (113):silly foolish crazy
Monotonous (114):without change
Accustomed (114):used to
Engulfed (115):swallow up, surrounded by
Retorted (115): answer
Leer (115) :evil glance
Crypt (116):underground vault
Stern (116):harsh


Edmund is watching the Hotel American House
Catherine comes out with a man(Rachett)
Edmund is being followed
Throck says he didn’t see the vision of the woman in the graveyard
Dupin went into the mausoleum and found a straw mattress on the floor
Throck followed Dupin into the tomb…he thinks that Dupin is following him
Throck (to Dupin) “Why are you in the graveyard?”
Dupin “I’m here to meet someone”
Thinks he sees the dead woman – it is Mrs Whitman
Mrs Whitman asks “Have you been drinking?” He says he is in pain….missing her
“scandal???”
Mrs Powers is intercepting notes
“We will be surrounded by enemies”
Study Questions:
1. Mr Rachett…****Change question…cross out DUPIN….write in Catherine
2. He was being followed
3. if he saw the ghost
4. to the masoleum
5. Throck
6. Mrs Whitman
7. Mrs Whitman’s mother intercepted it
8. Predict

Chapter 11

Chapter 11:” Beyond the Cemetery Gate”
Plodding: 105 slow, sluggish
Abutted:106 next to
Sconces107: a bracket extending from a wall that holds a candle
Scrutinized 107: inspected
Obscured107: hid
Notion109: idea
Mausoleum109: tomb
Bramble110: prickly bush
Trod:110 tread , walk
HEMP107…Asian herb grown for tough fiber.

Someone is following Dupin Edmund also followed Dupin to church
Unitarian church……. matched bell rope to rope in the vault
Child loaded brick into basket after being lowered down shaft.
Bank is next to church alley behind
Dupin figured horse and carriage …stand on top….get on bank roof Lower a child and a basket and remove gold and child.
Catherine ran away from the house went to the Hotel American House
Dupin in the cemetery
Sees a woman(looks like Aunty) coming from mausoleum …….looking for her children Something scares the woman
Throck grabs Dupin
Study Questions:
1. to see if he truly goes to Mrs. Whitman’s
2. someone else is following him too
3. it is similar to the rope in the bell tower.
4. a child was lowered through the roof opening and passed the gold up in a basket
5. Mrs. Whitman’s
6. The Hotel American House
7. it would look like he was just emerging from death
8. The ghost of the woman taken from the bay
9. Throck
10. PREDICT

Chapter 10

Chapter 10 “The One Who Murdered Her”
Divulge (93): reveal, tell
Glowered (94)angrily stared
Stymied (94): block, frustrate
Solicitude (94): showing concern/ worry
Stammered (94) stuttered
Stifle (96): stop/hold back
Contract(97) shrink
Basin (97)wide shallow bowl
Sullenly (98)silent because a person is angry, sad or hurt
Wince(98) drawback usually twisting your face
Somberly(101) darkly gloomily
Oath(101)serious statement in the name of god

Edmund gives a message from Mrs. Whitman to Mr Dupin. Dupin asks should I marry Mrs Whitman?
Dupin threatens Edmund …says he writes what will happen and he will ruin it for Edmund.
Edmund tells Dupin about the “break in”
Edmunds first father dies stepfather abandoned him (Mr. Rachett)
Mum came to America to find Rachett, get money and a divorce>
Dupin sends Edmund to the docks to talk to Captain Elias and see if Fortnoy lied under oath.

Study Questions:
1. why she was stolen
2. if he should marry Mrs Whitman
3. he is upset that he wasn’t told sooner
4. that he had a stepfather named Rachett
5. took her money and left
6. to find Rachett and get money and get a divorce
7. ask Capt. Elias about the Lady Liberty
8. he wants to see if Fortnoy lied under oath
9. Fortnoy
10. PREDICT

Chapter 9 "News of Sis"

Chapter 9: “News of Sis”
Balustrade(84): railing
Discreet(86) : able to keep a secret
Hastened (86): accelerated/ Hurried
Dubiously (89): doubtfully, uncertainly
Intoned (90): chant
Calamities (90): disasters
Resolution (91): decision


Edmund looks at Dupin’s notebook
Peterson the young accountant has white hair/
Someone broke into the room and into Aunty’s trunk (with a key) they took a drawing of Aunty and Mum.
Dupin is drunk and goes to the clothier on Wickendon St.
Clerk tells a story of a man who was having a coat made and ran off when a beggar boy came in (Edmund)
Mr. Rachett is the man in the clothier.
Dupin is getting married.
Throck was following Dupin
Dupin calls himself Edward Grey
Rachett knows Peterson Rachett left a message for him …a note (urgent)He reads it later and says “at the hotel”
Peterson wants to be an inspector. (lives in the Hotel American House)

Study Questions :
1. Dupin is gone/notebook
2. an investigator
3. Throck
4. everything is in shambles
5. A picture of Aunty and Mum
6. Mr Rachett
7. He has news of Sis
8. Predict

Chapter 8

Chapter 8 “A Perfect Tomb”

Fretful 71: worried
Obliged 71obligated
Decency 72 politeness
Chiding 72: scolding
Reverberating 73: echoing
Fused 73 combined
Fantastical73 tremendous
Concocted 73: invented
Piqued 74: aroused
Loiterers 74 people hanging around
Plight 75 trouble or problem
Admiration 75 respect, appreciation
Affirmation 76: state positively
Ledger 77: account book
Pulpit 77: platform, podium
Tentatively 79:subject to change
Illusion 80 fantasy, false impression

Mrs Powers talks to Mr Arnold they speak of Mr Arnold with Mrs Whitman instead of Poe.
Edmund finds a note in code on the floor at Mrs Whitman’s .
Mrs Whitman asks about Mr Dupins drinking and sends a message with Edmund meet her at 3:30 at the graveyard Church St entrance.
Mr Peterson is at the bank
Mr Poley is the boss at the bank
Poe goes into the bank
Finds a button and some string …the air shaft must be the way the robber got in
The Gold came in by boat in the night
Study Questions
1. visit Mrs. Whitman
2. Mr Arnold and Mrs. Powers
3. The man she is supposed to marry and her mother
4. a piece of paper with odd writing on it.
5. never to drink again
6. if he is drinking
7. come to the graveyard at 3:30
8. to learn about the robbery
9. a white button
10. no grown person would fit
11. he faints
12. PREDICT

Chapter 7

Chapter 7 “A Judgment of Murder”
Vestibule p64 enclosed entrance
chaise p64 a chair built like a couch
curtsied p65 bow made by bending the knees
soot p.68: black powder
garlanded p68: decorated with
ponderously p68: clumsily
malice p70 ill will
aforethought p70 done deliberately
pitiable p70 pitiful
torpor p70 extreme sluggishness
vengeance p70 revenge
abyss p70 bottomless pit


Edmund goes to Mrs Whitman's meets servant girl Catherine
Mrs Whitman's mom is Mrs Powers
Mrs Whitman wants to know if Dupin is drinking
Mrs Whitman sends Edmund to the kitchen for food before leaving
Dupin is in the courthouse
P 68: Fortnoy is described as bent and white haired
As Dupin watches Fortnoy and Throck testifies>>>>woman has marks on her throat >>>Dupin falls asleep and dreams of a phantom (the dead woman) in the court room

Study Questions
1. he is dirty
2. it was murder
3. he is drunk
4. the dead woman
5. predict

Chapter 6

Chapter 6: “The Providence Night Watch”

Furrowed: (55) wrinkled
Cashiered: (56) dismissed from a position of command
Discomfited(57):made uncomfortable
Affronted(57) insulted
Portly(59) overweight (big)
Florid(59) flushed with rosy color
Admonition(60) warning
Dismissive(61) unconcerned


Dupin shows Throck his observation skills
Suggests Throck was thrown out of the army for fighting
Edmund went to the clothier saw a man there who left
Edmund returns to Dupin and Dupin is drunk he sends Edmund to give a letter to Mrs Whitman (personally)
When Edmund leaves Dupin asks for directions to courthouse.

Study Questions
1. kicked out due to violence
2. They are much the same. They were both abandoned,lost their fathers, dead mother, and someone called Sis.
3. the death of sis
4. the bank robbery
5. tells him to leave
6. He acts like he doesn’t know him
7. deliver another note to Mrs. Whitman
8. PREDICT

Chapter 5

Chapter 5
“An Old Man With White Hair”

Quelling: p46B putting something at bay…overcoming
Insinuated: p48M get in subtly
Detained: p50B delayed
Clothier: p53M Maker or seller of clothing
“Idle chatter”: p53B Worthless talk
Reluctantly: p54M holding back
Duress: p51B under force
Consorting: p51B associated with …hanging out with

Dupin and Edmund find a plank and a button in the opposite room in the next tenement. Talked to the woman in charge of the next tenement- she is almost blind- she rented a room to a Mr. Smith …he was large and had a friend. Dupin is figuring that Sis Mum and Aunty and the old man are connected.
They go to the café …Throck is there …they eat Dupin drinks, Dupin sends Edmund to get a price on having a coat made …”be gone 1/2 hour exactly”.

Study Questions
1. A button from Sis’s shoe
2. she was forced
3. he is never there and wanted a specific room
4. someone waited until Edmund left the room and someone else detained him on the street
5. inform the authorities
6. to get a coat
7. Throck was approaching Dupin

Chapter 4

Chapter 4 “Meddle at your Peril”

Berated: 37 scolded harshly
Courtship:37 dating
Voracious:38 exceeding, large
Principals:38 leading persons
Remunerative: 38 gainful or for profit
Self Loathing: 39 self hating
Meddle: 39 interfere
Peril: 39 danger
Squalor: 39 state of being filthy or dirty
Flagged:39 lose strength or spirit
Feigning: 39 pretending, faking
Sullenly: 40 gloomily silent
Loo/privy: 43 outdoor bathroom

Dupin wakes up hung over reads the newspaper (p38)
Tries to sneak out Edmund wakes up.
Ed tells Dupin sis is 11 and his twin (it runs in their family) Mum has been gone 1 year.
A sailor brought a letter to Aunty ….Ed and Dupin decide sis must have left through the window and have gone into the other building. (Aunty’s trunk is locked) Went outside to look at buildings…they are identical. They find the room opposite Edmund's room and knock…no one answers and Dupin forces the door open.

Study questions
1. Meddle at your Peril
2. to look for mum
3. a year ago
4. she received a message
5. so they can leave to go to the bathroom
6. into the next building

Chapter 3 TMWWP

Chapter 3 "Steps in the Night"
Meager: sparse 29t
Saloon: Bar room 29m
Pang: sudden sharp pain p30b 34
Shrouds: cloth over a corpse p31m
Rebuked: reprimand sharply p31b
Providential p35 occurring at a favorable (good) time
Fitful: restless35
Vipers: snakes 36
Marred: damaged 36


Sis was the name of Dupin’s late wife
They live on the 4th floor
Edmund and Dupin return to the tenement Sis is not there.
Edmund insists that “it wasn’t Aunty’s dress”
Dupin writes as Edmund goes for food
Dupin drinks and falls asleep.
Edmund hears foot steps in the darkness on the way to the saloon and sees light hair….but the image disappears.
Edmund buys 2 candles and a meat pie.
When Ed leaves the saloon Throck is talking about him when Fortnoy arrives …thin face, high collar and muffler (scarf)
Fortnoy has been following Ed and Dupin and reporting to Throck.
Reward for Mrs G Rachett (London< England)( this is what Throck is working on)
Stepfather”s business Aunty called it shameful
Edmund falls asleep after eating back at the tenement….Dupin hears footsteps in the hall.
Dupin hallucinates and a note is slipped under the door

P.31…..time….it has been barely 24 hours

Study Guide
1. His dead wife’s name
2. to the saloon
3. he writes
4. Aunty’s shadow
5. Fortnoy
6. 1848
7. ate 1/2 the pie
8. a piece of paper

Chapter 2 TMWWP

24. Quay- Wharf: Platform built on the shore or out from the shore beside which ships can load and unload.
24 buoy- floating marker in the water
25 spasmodically: in spasm
24 great coat - over coat
26 paupers field-a cemetery where people can be buried who are unidentified or have no money
26 inquest: a hearing concerning a death
26 prow: the front part of a ship


Ed and Dupin head back to the tenement
Dupin wants to go to the docks
Edmund seems nervous: says Aunty and Sis must be back
Dupin speaks of “what we want to happen and what actually happened”
Dupin makes Edmund go to the docks
See 2 men on the dock with a lantern.
Character(focus on )
One holding the lantern (Asa Throck)
Powerful build
Huge hands
Broad flat round face
Disfiguring scar left cheek
Bald head fringe of hair that touched his collar
Jacket with a brass star: emblem of the Providence night watch
Mr. Fortnoy
Short ferret faced white haired older man wiry body
Coiled upon himself in a stoop
Shifty eyes
Dead woman on the dock fair hair, eyes open look of shock
Ivory dress, thin body ghastly pretty looked like Edmund
Fortnoy just pulled her out…after finishing his watch
Edmund thinks the body is Aunty with a different dress
STUDY QUESTIONS
1. Go to the docks
2. to the docks
3. They are at home
4. a dead woman
5. She looks like Edmund
6. to identify it
7. leaving his aunty

Chapter 1

Chapter 1
“Might I Know Your Name?”

Carpetbag: a carrying bag made from a heavy material
Contempt: the feeling one has toward something worthless
Unitarian: a Christian sect
Vicious: forceful,intense
Wretchedness: very unhappy miserable
Recess: hidden or inner place
Intensity: great energy
Gratitude: thankful appreciation
Penetrating: sharp, piercing



Study questions :
1. writer
2. letter
3. runs into him
4. deliver a letter
5. Is there a story here?
6. Edgar Allan Poe

The Man Who was Poe

Prologue
*Vocabulary:
Tenement: a house divided into apartments(p.3 top)
Piteously: arousing pity (p.9 top)
Baleful: deadly ominous (p.7 bottom)
Decrepit: Broken down by old age (p.6 bottom)
Stench: a strong foul odor (p.6 bottom)
Dismal: causing gloom or depression (p.6 bottom)
Hodgepodge: a jumble (p.7 middle)

*Notes: Providence Rhode Island Nov 1848
Ann St tenement, table, chair, trunk.
Mum is missing.
Aunty went looking for her.
Sis reads Hansel and Gretel.
Edmund leaves the tenement to go to the saloon on Wickendon St for food.
Gets a half loaf of bread.
Edmund meets bent old man (on his way home), he needs help to find Shamrock St).
When Edmund returns Sis is gone, but the door is still locked.

*Answers Study Questions:
1. with Mum making a home for them
2. England
3. to get food
4. half a loaf of bread
5. guide him to Shamrock Street
6. Sis was gone