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'Insane In Edgar Allan Poe's Tale Tell Heart'

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Have you ever met a murder or just a insane crazy person. In the Short story “Tale Tell Heart”by Edgar Allan Poe there is a murder or a crazy man he decided to kill his roommate and hide his body so no one will ever find him and then police come. But why s he a bad man and why did he what he did to his room mate. These are the ones reason he is a bad man and should be classified as a crazy man. But what did he do first to the man and where did he hide the body.
The narrator is a murder and he kills for fun and doesn't even like his own room mate. It says in a line “ The old man is dead” also it says “ I dismembered the corpse first the head then the asrm then legs”. This shows that he is already murdered the man and putting him in pieces but why does the narrator do this. The narrator says “ there was nothing to wash out no stain of anything and no blood spo anywhere”. This tells th3e reader that he does not want to be caught of what he has done to the man. But I guess that's not how it works for lunatics. …show more content…

There hearing. The narrator says “ I have heard all things in heaven and earth. I heard things in hell.” I can only hear things in earshot, because a that is all physically possible. And no one can hear things in heaven or hell. Those are thing in the spiritual realm. If anyone could hear like this then anyone talking normal next to one would burst his eardrum. The man can hear the heart beats. Because when the narrator says while he is in the man's doorway he says.“I know that sound too well it's a old man's heartbeat”. How can hear the heartbeat he can't because he is just a

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