1. How is the story narrated?

Answer: The story was narrated using the first point of view, or the point of
view of the central character of the story.

2. What effect does this have on the way the story is told?
Answer: As for me, the story being narrated using the first point of view make
me feel that everything in the story is true. I feel like I am the central character
doing the crime.

3. Who is the central character of the story?

Answer: The central character of the story is the narrator.

4. What is this person like?

Answer: If I were to describe the person, he is paranoid and psychopath.

5. What is the central conflict of the short story? How is the conflict resolved?
Answer: As for the central character, the conflict is on how he is going to kill the
old man, which he resolves through killing the man. As for me as a reader, the
conflict of the story is the mental problem of the central character, which for me
was resolved when he foolishly admitted the crime he did.

6. What point does the last line of dialogue make?

Answer: As for me, it means foolishness in behalf of the central character because
of over panic. er to your research on Edgar Allan Poe. How is his background
reflected in his writing?
Answer: The childhood days of Edgar Allan Poe which are full of tragedies and
dark colors such as being a target of bullying and parents died on his early age,
influenced his masterpieces to be gloomy, horror, crime, and mystery.

1.1. What is the central image of the poem?

Answer: As for me, it is the desire of the woman to stop doing something
that society is telling them the right to do such as sewing. And, do
something that they also want to do such as helping those men who
fought in the war for peace.

1.2. What kind of person does the persona seem to be?

Answer: As for me, the person is a woman is trying to break the
conventional thought of people that women is only limited on doing
 something that are only solely for them. She is also brave in a way that she
is willing to help those men who are fighting for peace in the war.

1.3. What other images and figures of speech are found in the poem?
Answer: The other image is that; it tries to let the readers see that women
should not be limited on doing things that we thought only for women. If
they want to do something that is more than being a woman, we should
not deprive them from doing that. On the other hand, figures of speech
that are visible on the poem are metaphor, personification, allusion and
alliteration.

1.4. What do you think is the thematic message that the poem conveys?
Answer: It is breaking stereotype of perceptions towards the capabilities
of women, which women can also do things that we thought only for men.
We should not deprive them from doing something that they want to do,
even if we thought that it is not only for them.

1.5. Refer to your research. How does the poet’s biography tie up with this
poem?
Answer: As for me, the author being a political activist allows her to come
up with this poem which is very political. It is political in a way because
the poem tries to break the stereotype of perception towards women’s
capabilities of doing something.