1. Done by:
Muzna AL Hooti
Lujaina AL Gammari

2. Contents
The arguments1
Warm-up information2
The Tell Tale Heart3
The Blue Bouquet4
5 Exercise

3. 1. Does magic exist?
2. Does magic and supernatural world
affect on us?
3. Can we reach our aims by using
paranormal activities?

4. Magic is the art of producing a desired effect or result
though the use of incantation, ceremony, ritual, the
casting of spells or various other techniques that
assure human control of supernatural agencies or the
forces of nature.
• It is viewed with suspicion by the
wider community and is
commonly practiced in isolation
an secrecy.
Traditional perspective
• View 1: magic is a result of a
universal sympathy within the
universe.
• View 2: it is a collaboration with
spirits who cause the effect.
Modern perspective
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/magic

5. What tale does the heart tell?

6. Summary of the story
The narrator is living with an old man. He claims
that he is not crazy but acute and he has nothing
bad with the old man, yet he wants to kill him
because of his eyes. After he kills him, he cannot
stop listening to the heart beats of the old man, so
he admits to the police that he killed him. All these
prove his insanity not acuteness.

7. Overview
Obsession story using the first
person narrator
Controversy
Setting
The apparent setting
The hidden setting
Characters
The apparent characters
The hidden meaning

8. What we can’t understand is that the
narrator insists that he loves the old man,
has no personal animosity toward him, does
not want his money, and has not been
injured by him. Instead he says he wants to
!!!!eyeskill him because of his
The old man’s eyes

9. 1. The idea of time
2. The identification of the
narrator with the old man
Literary qualities
Mysterious
Killing without motivation
Using the core as a clue
To understand the meaning of the eye:
title
I = eye
To defeat time ,destroy the self

10. By
Octavio Paz

11. Summary of the story
An Ordinary Man went for
a walk at night .
After a while, a shadow
appeared behind him
A strange sound told
the man that he
wants his blue eyes
to give them to his
girlfriend
The man told the
stranger , he doesn’t
own blue eyes
The stranger started
checking the man’s
eyes to make sure that
his eyes are blue
The stranger assured that
the man’s eyes are BROWN
The Stranger
disappear and the
man stood confused
and frightened

12. The Story shows the extent of idiocy and cruelty that senseless
love and passion can sometimes entail
Theme
Symbolis
m
“The night was a garden of eyes” : Referring to the stars
Characte
rs
The Man and the stranger.
Setting
A small Mexican village
Foreshadowi
ng
The owner says "Hmm- everything's closed. And no streetlights around here.
You'd better stay put.“ foreshadows that something bad is going to happen

13. By
Walter de la Mare