Discuss the story as a frame narrative ( a story within a story).

The story itself has two different storied one about the narrator and second about the oval portrait which the narrator noticed. It is not clear why did the narrator go to that abandoned chateau which was not used by anyone for long time and why the narrator went there with his servant at the night time. The chateau was near a mountain range in Italy which was not used for very long time. At the night time when the candelabrum fell and then he saw a vivid light a picture which was never...

"'The Oval portrait" is a short horror story by Edgar Allan Poe involving the disturbing circumstances surrounding a portrait in a chateau. Elaborate.

"The oval portrait " is indeed a short horror story by Edgar Allan Poe which involved the disturbing circumstances surrounding the portrait in the old and abandoned chateaux. The narrator made forcible entrance in the chateau where he later at the same night saw an oval portrait which was never noticed before which was of a girl just ripening into womanhood who was just perfectly beautiful just by the appearance in the portrait which mearly had her head and shoulders. He then noticed and came...

What is the main theme of the story? 

The central theme of this story is love and friendship. The writer wishes to show that friendship becomes fragile in the presence of love.

a. What is the story about Steve Jobs' birth?

Steve Jobs was given birth by a young, unwed college graduate student and later on he was adopted by a family who were never graduated from high school and college.

What technique you think best for memorizing?

I think the best technique for memorizing is by assigning meaningfulness to things that are to be memorized.

Or in other words, relating things with a memorable story, simply, creating a story.
Do you remember yourself teaching us to memorize things easily. We had related words to a story and almost everyone in the class remembered at least 25 words among the total of 30. I still remember "Bhachyeko Haat". Haha!

Memory export Jim Kwik says that anything combined with emotion becomes a...