In Edgar Allan Poe’s story the Tell Tale Heart a man decides that he has to kill the old man he lives with. Because he can no longer stand to look at the old man’s ghastly looking eye. He starts plotting his way to do this. He thinks very long and hard and wise about the decision he has just made. Tons of things could go wrong here, but all he is worried about is getting rid of the eye. After you read the story what will you think? Will you think he should put on trial and face the consequences of what he has done, or should he be put in a mental hospital for insanity issues? The man was plotting out his plan for killing the old man with the ghastly vulture’s eye. He has been watching the old man very closely trying to decide when would be the most opportune time. Because the old man is planning to take the old man’s life he has been super nice to him. So, maybe when the narrator goes to kill the old man he won’t suspect anything. The narrator tries to kill the old man every night, but the eye was always closed and it just didn’t seem to be so scary and irritating. The exact reason is , “and this I did for seven long nights every night just at midnight, but I found the eye closed; and so it was impossible to do the work; fro it was not the old man who vexed me, but his Evil Eye.” , said the narrator. …show more content…
Upon this night he was extremely cautious while opening the door and going forth into the room. It says, “I fairly chuckled at the idea; and perhaps he heard me; for he moved on the bed suddenly, as if startled.” Basically saying that as he was entering the room he was laughing at the fact that he was fixing to murder someone in cold blood. To me this is kind of creepy and crazy that he is laughing at the fact that he fixing to kill an old man who has done nothing to this man. The old man hears a noise and shouts whose there the narrator then goes silent and doesn’t move a