Beginning Questions Answers
Beginning Questions Answers
The Beginning
Write the answer on a sheet of properly headed loose leaf. You may use the
story to help you.
3- The author most likely wrote the introduction to the story to explain and
give examples of analytical deduction because this is the method the
detective uses to solve the “impossible” murder. Since this was the first
detective story ever written, people were not familiar with this method of
thinking.
The quote means that although these are puzzling questions, (the songs the
syrens sang and the name Achilles used), there is an answer.
8- Poe died in 1849, and in 1887, almost 40 years later the first Sherlock
Holmes story was published.
9- Dupin is very analytical. He is also quite arrogant. He says that he is so
good that most people like looking through an open window into their souls.
10- Poe includes the discussion of Chantilly, the cobbler to give an example
of analytical deduction that uses the characters but is not related to the
events of the story.
11- Because it uses the characters, we are able to see Dupin in action.
12- Dupin and the narrator read about the murders in the newspapers.
13- The door is locked from the inside, with the key in the lock. There is a
bloody razor on the chair. There are large clumps of grey hair pulled out by
the roots. There was a lot of soot by the chimney which forced the police to
search the chimney where they found the daughter, shoved so tightly up that
it took 4-5 men to pull her down. The money was still in the room. The
mother was in the yard with her throat severely cut.
14- On a sheet of computer paper, draw the scene of the murder on one side
and the outside of the house when the gendarme and neighbors arrive on the
other.