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Tell Tale Heart Research Paper

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A sick thought can devour the mind and body like a silent fever and just when you realize you have it will be too late. Edgar Allan Poe has written many great pieces of literature in his life time. There is one text that stroke a cord with me, because of the way Poe illustrates the narrator’s madness. In his story Tell-tale Heart, the narrator kills an old man because of his eye. The narrator is mentally ill because he was able to tell the story so calmly, he only killed the old man to get rid of his eye, also he stalked the old man till he felt like the right time to kill him. In reality, he is mentally ill because he was able to tell the story of how he killed the old man. “I cut off the head and the arms and legs”, is one of the many
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