Evil is all around us and it can be hard to tell who is consumed by it and who is not. In the fictional short story, “The Tell-Tale Heart”, by Edgar Allan Poe, the narrator is consumed by his charge’s eye, to where he devises a plan on killing the old man. The story begins when the narrator becomes a caretaker to an old man with an “odd” eye. Becoming consumed by the man’s eye, he devises a plan to kill the old man so he, the narrator, will be at peace when the deed is done. He, meaning the narrator, is a calculated killer because he had came up with a plan to kill the old man because of his eye. In “The Tell-Tale Heart”, the narrator explains to the reader of how he is not mad, but instead tells how he killed the old man. He is a calculated