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Narration Prompt
Summarize how Augustus reaches the trapped narrator in this chapter, then identify the single moment you find most central to its meaning. Explain what your choice reveals about Poe's method and about the bond between the two friends.
Discussion Questions
- Recounting how Augustus nearly abandoned him, the narrator asks us to feel 'sorrow rather than anger.' When the narrator explains why Augustus nearly gave up, does the chapter ask us to excuse him, to judge him, or to hold both responses together, and why? What in the narrator's defense makes your reading most convincing? Use details from the chapter.
- Dirk Peters, a mutineer of grotesque aspect, restores Tiger to Augustus 'with a species of good feeling,' yet his manner is 'capricious, and even grotesque.' How does Poe sustain Peters as a figure we can neither trust nor dismiss, and why might he rest the fate of Augustus partly on so unreadable a man? Use details from the chapter.
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