Done by:Muzna AL HootiLujaina AL Gammari

Contents

The arguments1

Warm-up information2

The Tell Tale Heart3

The Blue Bouquet4

5 Exercise

1. Does magic exist?

2. Does magic and supernatural world affect on us?

3. Can we reach our aims by using paranormal activities?

Magic is the art of producing a desired effect or resultthough the use of incantation, ceremony, ritual, thecasting of spells or various other techniques thatassure human control of supernatural agencies or theforces 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

What tale does the heart tell?

Summary of the story

The narrator is living with an old man. He claimsthat he is not crazy but acute and he has nothingbad with the old man, yet he wants to kill himbecause of his eyes. After he kills him, he cannotstop listening to the heart beats of the old man, sohe admits to the police that he killed him. All theseprove his insanity not acuteness.

Overview

Obsession story using the first person narrator

Controversy

Setting

The apparent settingThe hidden setting

Characters

The apparent charactersThe hidden meaning

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

1. The idea of time

2. The identification of the narrator with the old man

Literary qualities

Mysterious Killing without motivationUsing the core as a clue

To understand the meaning of the eye:

title

I = eye

To defeat time ,destroy the self

By Octavio Paz

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

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

rsThe Man and the stranger.

SettingA small Mexican village

Foreshadowi

ngThe owner says "Hmm- everything's closed. And no streetlights around here. You'd better stay put.“ foreshadows that something bad is going to happen

ByWalter de la Mare