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The Theme Of Insane In Edgar Allen Poe's The Tell-Tale Heart

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In the story, ”The Tell-Tale Heart,” by Edgar Allen Poe, the reader learns about how a man gets insane because of the old man’s blue pale eye. First, the narrator claims not to be a killer but he wants to kill the old man. Next, at midnight he kills the old man and dismembers the body then hides It underground. Then, the officers came because neighbors reported shrieking so the narrator welcomes them in but he confesses he killed the old man because the narrator was hearing the old man’s heart beating louder and louder. Although you may disagree, I say he was insane for killing the old man. First, I chose that the narrator was an insane killer because he killed the old man by his vulture eye. The narrator shows he’s insane by
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