Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Tell-Tale Heart,” the narrator describes how he suffocated an old man to death because of the old man’s ghastly eye. In the beginning of the story he keeps on repeating himself asking questions “Am i mad? a mad man can not plan.” He was very in denial and someone who needs help never thinks they need help. This is a very complex topic to talk about because he had these thoughts in his head that couldn't be controlled due to trauma to the brain. He said “Always the eye was closed, so it was impossible for me to do the work. For it was not the old man I felt I had to kill; it was the eye, his Evil Eye” he had an obsession with his eye and needed to get rid of it, the old man never did him any harm he was actually very nice to him. Of course, when you are in jail you have a sentence time for when your getting out and how long you are going to be spending in there. When you …show more content…
Having a mental disorder can affect your life and daily activities. The old mans eye took over the narrators life. He would sneak into his house for eight consecutive days and watch him as he would sleep. At the end of the short story when the narrator let the police officers in the old mans house he was talking to him fine, like nothing happened at all. Until he started hearing a noise in his head it made him go insane. Hearing the voice of the mans heart beat in his head getting louder and louder caused him to panic and start to talk louder and move chairs and objects around. He was thinking to him self “Was it possible that they could not hear?? no! They heard! I was certain of it. They knew! Now it was they who were playing a game with me.” so much going through his head made him burst, without the police officers finding out he screamed out “It was me who killed