Everything you need to understand or teach The Pale Blue Eye by Louis Bayard.
Louis Bayard's mystery novel The Pale Blue Eye takes place on the West Point campus after someone kills a cadet and removes his heart. Officials call on retired investigator Augustus Landor to solve the case, and Landor employs the services of young poet Edgar Allan Poe. Though it seems they have identified the killers, Poe comes to realize that Landor is actually the murderer, driven by revenge against three men who raped his daughter. The most important themes of the novel are the importance of observation, devotion, the methodology of solving a mystery, one's true nature, and the power of the written word.
The Pale Blue Eye Lesson Plans contain 151 pages of teaching material, including:
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