Have you ever hated a person so much, even though they have never done anything to you? In the story, The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe, the narrator, the main character, wants to kill the old man because he hates the old man’s eye. However, the old man has never done anything to him, but the eye makes him fill up with anger. Every night, the narrator would go into the old man’s room and just watch him sleep, he wanted to kill the old man but he couldn’t build up the courage because the eye was hidden. On the eighth night, he built up the courage and finally killed the old man. Suspense is a feeling of anxious uncertainty about the next event. Poe uses techniques like anxiety, vivid words, and repetition to build suspense. In the story,