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    The story “The Tell-Tale Heart” by Edgar Allen Poe is told by a mad narrator with obsessions. It is about the narrator’s fear of an old man’s eye‚ prompting the narrator to kill the old man himself. Throughout the entire story‚ the narrator constantly attempts to convince the reader that he is not mad. This itself is an obsession and only assists in proving the narrator is mad. His obsessions are part of the madness‚ but the madness itself turns into an obsession. It is a terrible cycle that ends

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    The Tell Tale Heart is a short story written by Stephen Crane. The story takes place in Nebraska at the Palace (Blue) Hotel. The proprietor of the hotel‚ Scully‚ brings his guests from a train station which is nearby the hotel. One night he gets “The Swede”‚ “The Easterner”‚ and the cowboy. The narrative is about one and only nighttime when these three men are staying at Scully’s hotel. Their staying is not normal‚ they do not get on well with each other and what’s more they start fighting. The edge

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    Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Tell-Tale Heart” is about a man explaining how he murdered this old man with a vulture-like eye that bothered him and how he almost got away with it. As he explains his story‚ he seems to obsess over the old man’s eye. At the beginning of the story‚ the narrator’s first sign of obsession is right after he talks about how he loved the old man and didn’t desire his gold. “I think it was his eye! Yes‚ it was this! He had the eye of a vulture - a pale blue eye‚ with a film over

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    In the story‚ “The Tell-Tale Heart” my theme for this story is that it doesn’t take an insane person to kill another person. This is the theme for this story because the main character may seem insane‚ but there is a chance he might not be. One the other hand‚ some people might not agree and think he is insane. One possibility people would agree with is where he says he isn’t mad. In the story‚ the narrator says‚ “... but why will you say that I am mad? I heard all things in the heaven

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    In Edgar Allen Poe’s "The Tell-Tale Heart" the man hated the old mans eye so he killed him. Every night he would sneak into the old mans room. One night the old man woke up and was scared. The boy heard his heart beating and got angry when he seen the old mans eye. He killed him just because he seen his eye so I think he should go into a mental hospital. He pulled the bed up and over the old man and smothered him. He held it there for a while to make sure. He pulled the bed off and felt for

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    The short story “The Tell Tale Heart the narrator”‚ felt like he was expressing himself through the old man. The old man feels like no one is beside him and it shows how the narrator portrays the old man as lonely because no one bothers getting close to him. The old man’s personality can be described as grumpy‚ depressed‚ and mentally disordered in my opinion.Because he was crying in his bedroom (pg 63)" a low cry of fear which escaped from the old man". While the other man can also be described

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    actions that are evident of a person suffering from mental illness‚ which can be attributed to paranoia. A person who experiences irrational fear and delusion has the potential to inflict hurt to himself as well as others. Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Tell-Tale Heart” is told from the perspective of the narrator who gives a personal account of a situation fueled by anxiety‚

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    Cruz September 18‚ 2013 Crime & Mystery H Mrs. Zamora Period 1 Group Meeting #1 For our first group meeting we immediately went over all the discussion questions. Many challenging points were discussed especially when it came to the Tell-Tale Heart short story. Questions like “why did the narrator wait until the eighth night to kill the old man with the eye‚ instead of the first or second night?” and “Who do you think the narrator is telling this story too”? Some group members claimed the

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    The Tell - Tale Heart is a short story written by Edgar Allan Poe‚ which was published in 1843 talking about how a ‘Madman’ let an ‘obsession’ get to him which got him into causing murder and later feeling ‘guilt’. This was during an 8th days of progress event. This book is told in a first point of view‚ and the narrator is the ‘madman’ himself. The central idea is the narrator has an addiction to an eye of a old man whom he lives with/looks after‚ the eye was described as “He had the eye of the

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    Example In The Books The Monkey’s Paw‚ And Tell Tale Heart. In The Book Tell Tale Heart The Author Edgar A. Poe Showed Lots Of Mischief And Suspense And Monkey’s Paw The Author W.W. Jacobs Had Lots Of Fear And Some Surprise. Suspense had a role in both‚ The Monkey’s Paw and Tell Tale Heart Because In In the book Monkey’s Paw The author ( W.W. Jacobs ) said “ I Don’t know what his first two wishy were‚ but his last was for death. In the Book Tell Tale Heart The Author( Edgar A. Poe ) said “ True!-

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