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BERENICE by Edgar Allan Poe

Read the short story Berenice, by E.A Poe, at least twice. First, go through the story quickly. Yuo do not have to understand every single Word in the story, so you do not have to look up new words in the dictionary. Just skip them over. Second, read the story again, this this time mch more carefully. Underline Orly important new words and write them down on yournotebook in a glossary. (Important words are those words that are esssential for a poper understanding of the story). Now you can have a look at a dictionary and translate them into Spanish. By now you should be Reddy to do the following activites.

Comprensión. Answer these questions:

1. Where does the story take place?
The story take place in the house of Egaeus.

2. Why doesEgaeus spend most of this time in the library?
Egaeus spend a lot of time there because that room is his favourite and he was born there, and the books of the library are the first thing that he remember of his life.

3. Were Egaeus and Berenice brother and sister?
No, they werent. They were cousins.

4. What was Berenice like before her illness? And when she fell i?
Berenice was a:Sorong, healthy, always so full of life, always shining like a bright new sun girl. She ran over the Hills under the great blue sky. She wolked quicklu and happily throught life never thinking of the shadows arround her. Berenice never thought of tomorrow, she lived Only for the day, that person was Berenice before her illness.

5. Egaeus had “an illness of the mind”. What kind of illnes was it?Yes he has, the name of the illness was monomania. Was an illness of the mind and you were thinking about one thing, or idea, and not being able to stop.

6. Was Egaeus in love with Berenice? Why did he decided to ask her to marry him?
No he wasnt in love with Berenice, he was obsess with her teeth. He asked to marry with Berenice because he felt so sorry for her, he had a stupid ande vilidea.

7. As time goes by, Berenice becomes a stranger to Egaeus. Why?
She was a stranger to Egaeus, Only a Peak shadow of the woman he remember. He could not even remember
8. Egaeus was scred when he saw Berenice in his room. He did not like the look in her eyes or her strange smile. But what attracted his attention above all?
The teeth was attracted his attention because there wassow perfect, all with all it i son my mind.

9. What happend to Berenice befote the wedding?
Before the wedding she was so thin, and he Could see her arms and legs throught the grey clothes that hung round her wasted body and he had an other Epilepsy atack sow people thought that she died.

10. Egaeus spend a long, long time thinking about Berenices teeth untillo he hears a strangecry?what did the servant girl told to Egaeus?
Yes, he thought of her teeth all the time. The servant girl toldto Egaeus that Berenice died.

11. Was Berenice really dead when they buried her?
No, she wasnt. She had an atack of Epilepsy.

12. Where did the servants find Berenice body? What had happend to her?
Berenice body was in the open.Egaues kill her.

13. What was there insideEgaeus box?
inside the box were the teeth of berenice.

14. what did you think Egaeus did to Berenice?
I think that he hid the body of Berenice.

15. Write three true statements and three false statements based upon the story
True:
. Egaeus was mad.
.Berenice had an beautifull teeth
. Berenice do not died, she had an attack of epilepsy
False:
.Egaeus love Bernice
.They wereBrothers
. Egaeus hate the teeth of berenice

16. Write three questions you would like to ask Egaeus about what happend to Berenice.

17. who are the two main characters in the story? they are very different form one another?

the characters more important of the story are: Egaeus and Berenice and there are sow different.

18. try to describe them whit your own words. you can...