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Is The Tell Tale Heart Reliable

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A Tell-Tale Heart “Thump...thump..thump..” Poe causes the reader’s heart to beat faster and faster as they read about the mentally insane unreliable first-person narrator in “The Tell-Tale Heart”. Throughout the story, the main character is telling us his experience through his eyes. He shares his opinions and thoughts about the situation he is going through. However, a lot of the information he is sharing is not true, making him an unreliable main character. Edgar Allen Poe chose to write “The Tell-Tale Heart” in unreliable first person point-of-view because it was the best method for people to understand what was going through the insane main characters head. “Thump...thump..thump.” Poe causes the reader’s heart to beat faster and faster
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