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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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