BOLIVARIAN REPUBLIC OF VENEZUELA

MINISTRY OF POPULAR POWER FOR HIGHER EDUCATION

EXPERIMENTAL NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF MAGISTERY
"SAMUEL ROBINZON"
NATIONAL FORMATION PROGRAM IN FOREIGN LANGUAGES ENGLISH
MENTION
CLIFPM "ARGIMIRO GABALDON"

RESUMEN
"The Murders in the
Rue Morgue"

FACILITADOR: JOSÉ MENDOZA

PARTICIPANTE: MARIA OROPEZA

JUNIO 2020
The anonymous narrator of the story opens with a lengthy commentary on the nature
and practice of analytical reasoning, then describes the circumstances under which
Dupin first met during an extended visit to Paris. The two rooms share an old ruined
mansion and allow visitors, having cut off all acquaintances from the past and
venturing out only at night. "We exist within ourselves," the narrator states. One
afternoon, Dupin demonstrates his analytical prowess by deducing the narrator's
thoughts about a particular theater actor, based on clues collected from the narrator's
previous words and actions.

For the rest of the afternoon and the following morning, Dupin and the narrator read
with great interest the newspaper reports of a baffling double murder. Madame
L'Espanaye and her daughter have been found dead in their home on Rue Morgue, a
fictional street in Paris. The mother found herself in a courtyard behind the house,
with multiple bone fractures and a throat so deeply cut that her head fell when the
body was moved. The daughter was found strangled to death and stuffed upside
down in a fireplace. The murders occurred in a room on the fourth floor that was
locked from the inside; On the floor he had found a bloody razor, several strands of
bloody gray hair, and two bags of gold coins. Several witnesses said they heard two
voices at the time of the murder, a male and French, but disagreed on the language
spoken by the other. The speech was clear, and all witnesses claimed not to know the
language they believed the second voice to be speaking.

When a bank clerk named Adolphe Le Bon was arrested despite the fact that there is
no evidence to point to his guilt (other than his handing over the gold coins to the two
women the day before), Dupin becomes intrigued and agrees a service that Le Bon,
once performed by him. He decides to offer his help to "G", the police prefect.

Because none of the witnesses can agree on the language of the killer he spoke,
Dupin concludes that they were not hearing a human voice at all. He and the narrator
examine the house thoroughly; The following day, Dupin dismisses the idea of both
Le Bon's guilt and a motive for theft, citing the fact that the gold was not taken from
the room. He also notes that the killer would have had to have superhuman strength
to force the daughter's body down the chimney. A method is formulated by which the
killer could have entered the room and killed two women, involving a nimble climb
up a lightning rod and a jump to a set of shutters from open windows. Showing an
unusual lock of hair that was recovered from the scene, and demonstrating the
impossibility of the daughter being strangled by a human hand, Dupin concludes that
an orangutan killed the women. An ad has been placed in the local newspaper asking
if anyone has lost an animal, and a sailor soon comes looking for her.

The sailor offers to pay a reward, but Dupin is only interested in learning about the
circumstances behind the two murders. The sailor explains that while he caught the
orangutan in Borneo and took it back to Paris, he had trouble keeping it under control.
When he saw the orangutan trying to shave his face with his razor, imitating his
grooming in the morning, he ran away into the street and came to Morgue Street,
where he climbed up and into the house. The orangutan seized the mother by the hair
and waved the razor, imitating a hairdresser; When she screamed in fear, she was
furious, tore her hair out, cut her throat, and strangled the daughter. The sailor raised
the lightning rod in an attempt to catch the animal, and the two voices heard by
witnesses belonged to him and to him. Fearing punishment from their teacher, the
orangutan threw the mother's body out the window and stuffed the daughter into the
fireplace before fleeing.

The sailor sells the orangutan, Le Bon is released from custody, and the G-mentions
that people must attend to their affairs once Dupin tells him the story. Dupin
comments the narrator that G is "a little too cunning to be profound", but admires his
ability "