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Synthesis Essay: The Murder Of The Old Man

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The narrator claims he is not mad but I do not believe him. First of all he use to stay at the old man`s door and watch him sleep. For instance on paragraph 3 it stated ¨ I turned the latch of his door and opened it—oh, so gently! And then, when I had made an opening sufficient for my head...¨. This shows that he stared at the old man at night while he was a sleep. Second of all he killed the old man, not because he did not like the old man but, because he did not like his eye.Evidence of this is shown on paragraph 2 when the narrator says “I loved the old man. He had never wronged me. He had never given me insult. For his gold I had no desire. I think it was his eye!” This is significant because this proves that he liked the old man it was
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Edgar Allan Poe creates this menacing tone by the repetition and description of his senses. In the killing the narrators explains that the eye of the old man is the reason why he killed him in the first place .The description of the old man’s “eye of a vulture- a pale blue eye, with an film over it. Whatever it fell upon me, my blood ran cold; and so by degrees”(1). The senses of the narrator helps to bring on the mood of menace into the story.

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I have a suspicion that the death was planned, maybe this man had something against the old man, but this suspicion cannot be proven. It is revealed in later text that late, every single night, for some of the last days of this old man’s life, this other man, the killer, crept into his room and just watched him. Watched him sleeping, watched his eye. Apparently this old man had what was described as an “evil eye.” The killer, or the other man, appeared to have some kind of infatuation with the old man’s eye, maybe he was scared, maybe he was feeling threatened, we do not know.

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This is exactly the reason the narrator has killed the old man, because of his “evil eye”. Not only is this ridiculous on its own, but the narrator directly states that he loved this man. “I loved the old man. He had never wronged

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He describes himself as not being a “madman” but yet being able to “hear things in all heaven and earth.” The use of imagery shows the readers over and over again the reasons for the man murdering his victim. The “pale blue eye” is described in a way that even the audience wants to rid of it. This heightens the sense of insanity as even the readers can relate to the demented man.

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“He had the eye of a vulture- a pale blue eye, with a film over it,”[pg.81]. He had a very good eye that was pale blue with a film over it. At first the old man was a good friend to him and then he saw the eye and he had hatred on him. If you don't betray things you love and forgive them then bad things won't

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As a result, the narrator is insane and should not be prosecuted. To start off , the eye drove the narrator to insanity, which led him to take the life of the old man, The narrator does not know right from wrong. In the story, the narrator said that “For it was not the old man who vexed me, but his evil eye”(Poe). This quote from the passage proves that he is insane because he is deciding to kill someone over his “vulture eye”. A sane person would realize that killing someone over a eye is a silly, wrong thing

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