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Have you heard of the original version of “Tell Tale Heart?” Well there are two versions of it the original, and the rewritten one. You might of read both and wondered which one was true. To begin with, the original and rewritten version are the same but in different point of views. According to (poe) text, we new he was going to confess to the cops that he killed the old man by the way he was acting. He gave himself away about how he was acting if we wasn’t acting suspicious then he would've got away with the murder. According to (Mays) text, we new he was going to confess to the cops because he was getting really nervous and thought that he could hear the dead man’s heart but couldn’t. If the man wasn’t so nervous and was over thinking

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