Lying And Acting Phhony In 'The Tell-Tale Heart'

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Do you know what your child or/ children read at school? Do you want your child or/ children reading about murder, dismember bodies, lying and acting phony? The Tell-Tale Heart is a story about a mad man with a lot of issues like, being mad, having a disease and murdering. The story encourages lying, murdering, and fakeness. Therefore, I feel tell-tale heart is not appropriate for middle school students. I’m go to first, this story is inappropriate he killed a man for no reason. The narrator wanted to kill the old man because of his eye (Vulture eye). This example is on page 89 in lines 13-16, “He had the eye of a vulture- a pale blue eye, with a film over it. Whenever it fell upon me, my blood ran cold.” Also the narrator said, “I made