Insane Asylums In The Tell-Tale Heart By Edgar Allen Poe

Rico heard a noise behind that door down the hall. The dark, spooky, never quiet hall. The hall whose doors house mentally insane people. People who scream day in and day out, tearing at their bonds, wanting to escape. But today was different. Today the hall was deathly quiet. Rico was charged never to step foot inside the doors unless he had a weapon or another person with him. But today was different. He couldn’t find anyone. All his coworkers and weapons were gone. The entire building was silent. Rico was by far the youngest one at the insane asylum, working as an apprentice. He usually stayed downstairs. But today was different. The sudden silence drew him upstairs, and the sudden noise freaked him out. He slowly walked to the door and eased it open……”Hello, boy!” screamed a raspy voice. A voice that hadn’t spoken in months. A voice that he recognized. “It’s you!” he screamed, but before he could run, he was whipped inside and the door slammed shut and locked. This is an example

Insane asylums are usually creepy, especially for a young man who is very rarely in the setting. In the story The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allen Poe, the main character is a mad man who lives in a group home. He is driven crazy by an old man’s eye, so much that he kills, dismembers, and hides him. The character is so confident in his crime that he invites investigating officers into the old man’s room to talk about the reason they were sent over. The character begins to feel the emotions of guilt, like hearing a strange noise, sweating, swearing, throwing things, imagining pretend things, until he finally shouts, “Villains, dissemble no more! I admit the deed!--tear up the planks!--here, here!--it is the beating of his hideous heart!” Poe uses suspense by listing the details of the character’s crime, then by describing how the man is feeling when the guilt fully settles upon him and he can’t stand