Melville claimed that his life “began at age twenty-five” and it was at that time he began writing about the South Seas and other maritime situations.  

What does the narrator hear before killing?  

At the end of the story, the narrator thinks he hears the beating of the dead man’s heart.

Before disposing of the body, the narrator:  

What word best describes the narrator?  

The story is set in or near the city of:  

Mr. Shelby says that “it is inhumane to take a boy from his mother.”  

The novel opens in the month of February.  

It is clear from chapter one that Eliza is Mrs. Shelby, or the wife of Mr. Shelby.  

A small black child happens by and he dances for a quarter of an orange.