“The Tell-Tale Heart”, A story by Edgar Allan Poe. It’s about a person with the name of “the old man” and another person, which name we don’t know, is envious over the old man’s eye because it's described as dull and pale blue. We don’t know why he was so angry over a thing he could just ignore, but people think of him as an insane person or a calculated killer. He’s a calculated killer because there are many details in the text that persuade you to make you think that he’s a smart killer. The first reason is self explanatory, he says that if you think of him being insane for doing what he’s done, you will not think that because the precautions he took to conceal the body or to hide it. There's some foreshadowing happening in the beginning of the story because we're not to the part where he killed the old man yet. He’s saying that he’s smart for what he’s done to hide the body in a specific way. …show more content…
After he hid the body very precisely, he acted so calm once the officers came to investigate, it says that the officers were pleased but after everything, the guilt got to him and he tried everything to stop the ringing noise that he was hearing, that's guilt in my opinion. In the end, he tore up the planks to reveal to the officers what he has done, it says, “Dissemble no more! I admit to the deed! - tear up the planks!- here, here!- it is the beating of the hideous heart.”