Tuesday, June 1, 2010

Chapter 13


Chapter 13 “Our Secret Fears”
*Genially:119: pleasant, friendly
Apparition 120: a ghost like image of a person
Spectral 120: of or like a ghost
*Curt 120: rudely brief
Clerical 120: relating to the clergy
*Orations120:formal speeches
Consort 120: companion
Venomous 121 full of malice/spite
*Mockery 123:ridicule
Onslaught 123: a fierce attack
Improbable 124: not likely to be true
Bestial 124: of or like animal(s)
*Sordid 124: foul
*Daguerreotypes:125 early photo process: light sensitive silver coated metallic plate

Dupin is sweating, sick etc.
Tea at Mrs Whitman's
He saw 5 people at Mrs Whitman's all women were apparitions of the woman in the tomb and the men were Edmund.
Dupin is hallucinating
Dr Dillard, his orations are famous
Mrs Dillard
Mr Arnold
Mr MacFarlane: a poet
Catherine
Arnold inquires about Poe’s writing
P122 Evil is only the name we give our secret fears
“What if a man orders……
Dupin spoke to Arnold about coat
Mr Arnold leaves
McFarlane – Stories make me uncomfortable speaks of Auguste Dupin
Mrs Whitman speaks of a portrait studio and Dupin flirts and says he will have a portrait done for her to study.

Study Questions
1. the apparition, Edmund
2. a gathering of demons
3. the man who was to marry Mrs Whitman
4. Mr McFarlane
5. crime, brutality, death
6. the name we give our secret fears
7. what they know best
8. he leaves
9. he is a character in one of Poe’s stories
10. Mrs. Whitman
11. have his portrait done
12. he says he never knows
13. PREDICT

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