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“The Tell Tale Heart” Writing Edgar Allen Poe’s story, “The Tell Tale Heart” is dark and threatening. First the text says that narrator opens the latch of the door every midnight. Then he used a dark lantern, so that the old man will not be able to notice he is there (78). The mood is suspenseful, because in the story, he is doing things that are suspenseful like the dark lantern, sneaking into the room and staying quiet so the old man doesn’t notice is in there. That is why this story is suspenseful. Next, the text says that, “I think it was his eye! Yes it was this!” He tries to kill the old man because of his eye. Where he goes crazy when he sees the eye, (80). He is trying to kill an old man, cause he wants to get rid of the eye.
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