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7th Grades English Literature Teacher Marcela

Dive into the chilling story of a man consumed by the terror of being buried alive due to his cataleptic fits, leading to drastic measures to avoid such a fate.

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7th Grades English Literature Teacher Marcela

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  1. 7th GradesEnglishLiteratureTeacher Marcela ThePrematureBurial

  2. Tell the story: The Premature Burial • Theme: the fear of being buried alive • Character: the man with catalepsy • Events: • Everybody is afraid of being buried alive. • What is catalepsy? • Catalepsy is a disease (or illness) that make people look like they are dead. • A cataleptic fit can last hours, or even days. • What’s happened to the Baltimore woman? • She had a cataleptic fit and was buried alive. • Three years later, her family discovered the truth. • The character’s cataleptic fits • The man gets more and more afraid of being buried alive • More afraid + more worried + more obsessed = more cataleptic fits • He has many nightmares.

  3. Tell the story: The Premature Burial (cont.) • He makes many changes in the family vault • Comfortable coffin, that opens from the inside • Rope inside the coffin • A bell connected to the rope • Holes for air • Water and food. • He travels with a friend to a different city • The storm • The sailing boat • The narrow wooden bed • He wakes up and thinks he is inside a coffin • He starts screaming and remembers everything about the storm, the boat and the narro

  4. 1) What do Fortunato (The Cask of Amontillado) and the Baltimore woman (The Premature Burial) have in common?

  5. 2) Put the events in the correct order • ___ He makes changes in the family vault. • ___ They discover the woman was buried alive. • ___ The man wakes up and thinks he is inside a coffin. • ___ She looks like she is dead, and the family buries her. • ___ He has nightmares about voices. • ___ There is a storm and they hide inside a boat. • ___ The Baltimore woman is sick. • ___ Three years later, they opened the vault. • ___ He is very afraid of being buried alive. • ___ The man has an illness called catalepsy. • ___ The man travels to another city with a friend.

  6. 3) True of False? • ( ) The woman in Baltimore survived. • ( ) Attheend, themanwithcatalepsystopsthinkingaboutdeath. • ( ) The man with catalepsy wakes up in a coffin. • ( ) The man with catalepsy makes changes in the family vault. • ( ) The woman in Baltimore was buried alive. • ( ) The skeleton in the white burial clothes was a man. • ( ) The man with catalepsy was afraid of boats. • ( ) The character had a lot of nightmares.

  7. Check your answers • 1) Both of them were buried alive. • 2) 8 – 4 – 11 – 2 – 7 – 10 – 1 – 3 – 6 – 5 – 9 • 3) F – T – F – T – T – F – F – T

  8. Monthly Test 2March 25th, 2015 • The Premature Burial

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