Have you ever read a story about a man who kills an elder because of his eye? Would you recommend it for 13-14yr olds? This essay is about the story “Tell Tale Heart”. The story basically is about a psychotic man who hates an old man because he had a cataract. He would walk into the man’s room, at midnight, and watch him sleep, waiting to kill him. After he kills him, the police search his house. After searching for a while, the police have no luck, he gets away with it. Time after, he begins to hear a loud thumping sound, the old man’s heart. He confesses to his crimes and the cops take him away. Now, you would probably think this story is way too gruesome for young teenagers, or you may think they should suck it up and stop being so sensitive. In my opinion, “Tell Tale Heart” is not appropriate for reading with kids in my age group. …show more content…
On page 92, the author says, “With a loud yell, I leaped into the bedroom. The old man shrieked only once. In an instant, I dragged him to the floor and pulled the heavy bed on him. Then, I smiled because the deed was nearly done.” Horrendous information such as this, which is “TMI”, will most definitely cause nightmares. The subject is generally just a crazy man killing people for no reason.
Next, this story teaches you that it is possible to get away with murder. The evidence that supports my theory states, “First of all, I dismembered the corpse. I cut off the head and the legs. I then took up the three planks from the flooring of the chamber, and deposited all between the scantlings. I then replaced the boards so cleverly, so cunningly, that no human eye--not even his--could have detected anything wrong.” Would you like it if your young teenager knew how to get away with murder? People would never know where the body is, all along its under your
cannot hear the man’s heart beating loudly. He describes the fear of the old man in bed after
In conclusion, Tell tale heart is one of the best stories and should stay as a middle school standard. there was raising action filled with suspense. An change from almost insane to completely insane. There was a climax to a beautiful story. Yeah it contains violence but that what make horror stories horror, and besides i can think of a story far more violent than this one. This story is great so i hope it is never taken out of the 8th grade
In "The Tell-Tale Heart", the storyteller tells of his torment. He is tormented by an old man's Evil Eye. The storyteller had no ill will against the old man himself, even saying that he loved him, but the old man's pale blue, filmy eye made his blood run cold. And when the storyteller couldn't take anymore of the Evil Eye looking at him, he said, "I made up my mind to take the life of the old man, and thus rid myself of the eye for ever." This is the start of the storyteller’s madness, and as the reader listens to what he says, the madness within the storyteller becomes very apparent.
In "The Tell-Tale Heart" the action is filtered through the eyes of a delusional narrator. The narrator fixates upon the old man's eye and determines to commit a conscious act of murder. He prides himself on his careful planning and mastery at deceiving others. While he acts friendly towards the old man and the police, dark secrets are hidden deep inside of him. This leads to a false confidence. He insists on seating the policemen in the very room where he had slain the old man just a few hours before, the old man's body was revealed to be beneath the floorboards at the narrator's own admission and admits his crime because of the loud beating of the heart.
...cause of the old man he is taking care of’s eye. One of the old man’s eyes was a pale blue with a film over it. Because of this, he decides to kill the old man to “be free of it”. When he brutally murders the old man, he dismembers his body and puts it under the floorboard. A neighbor heard screams and sent the police over to see what the problem was and the narrator claimed he screamed in his sleep and the old man was out of town. The police believed nothing was wrong, but the narrator’s guilt consumed him, and he told on himself, causing him to be arrested.
It is impossible to say how the idea of murdering the old man first entered the mind of the narrator. There was no real motive as stated by the narrator: "Object there was none. Passion there was none. I loved the old man. He had never wronged me....For his gold I had no desire. I think that it was his eye!"
The police show up at his door, with a neighbor’s claim of a loud noise heard. The man, overflowing with confidence, cheerfully allows the police to search the entire house, as he had previously dismembered the body and hidden it under the floorboards. Finding nothing, the police and him chat for a while in the old man’s room, when suddenly the man hears a faint beating. Quickly becoming louder, the man loses his cheerful disposition and starts to panic. He claims the police were toying with him; they knew all along. Claiming the noise emanated from the dead man’s heart, the man succumbs to the noise, yelling, “Villains! Dissemble no more! I admit the deed! --tear up the planks! here, here! --It is the beating of his hideous heart!” (Poe).
There is a stark contrast presented between civilized behavior and the primitive behavior that these slaughters suggest. The murders are so horrid and revolting that it does not seem conceivable that a human would have the ability to do the things that were done. Some of the evidence collected from the murder site included, “two or three long and thin tresses of gray human hair that seemed to have been pulled out by the roots.” (99) Likewise, “the body [of the old lady], as well as the head, was fearfully mutilated-the former so much so as scarcely to retain any semblance of humanity.” (100) In response to these pieces of evidence gathered, the detective, Dupin, says that the killer has “a strength superhuman, a ferocity brutal, a butchery tone to the ears of men of many nations, and devoid of all distinct or intelligible syllabification.”
"The Tell-Tale Heart" is one of the most successful fables ever written. It took off its most fantastic details regarding the murdered man 's vulture like eye, and the long drawn out detail concerning the murderer 's slow entrance into his victim 's room, the story stays at an unforgettable recording of the guilty conscience of the man 's voice.
The Tale Tell Heart” is a short story in which Edgar Allen Poe, the author, illustrates the madness and complexity of an individual. The unnamed narrator, who is Poe’s main character, is sharing his story of him murdering an old man on the sole reason of his dislike for his filmy blue eye, which reminds him of a vulture. He meticulously plans the murder of this old man, and attempts to cover up the act through his twister persona. In the "Tell-Tale Heart", Poe uses satire, imagery, and symbolism to portray how startlingly perverted the mind of the narrator is and how guilt always prevails.
The Tell-Tale Heart is a story about a man whom, plagued by mental disorder, takes the life of a man. The narrator claims to have love for the old man and insist that it is the old man 's vulture eye that he cannot stand. He watches the old man for seven nights before killing him, dismembering the body, and hiding the evidence. The narrator ends up confessing to his crime to police officers after he is driven mad by the beating of the, now dead, old man 's heart.
He stalks the old man for eight nights, and then kills him by suffocation. He then dismembers the body and hides it on the floorboards. He didn't call the police, but still got interviewed. He began to feel remorse, confessed, and was obviously caught. This was a murder planned.
story is a young boy. The motive to kill is that he sees the boy’s
The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allen Poe is a short story that dives into the mind of an insane man. The story only features five characters. There is an old man with a blue eye, the crazed killer, and three police. The story is narrated by the nameless murderer. It is his attempt to justify his behavior and to prove to the reader that he is not crazy. As the story goes on you come to the realization that he is actually insane. The characters in this story are complex, interesting, and elaborate.
According to the story, “ Tell Tale Heart” some think it’s not age appropriate for 8th grade students, and some think its is. The Tell Tale Heart is about the narrator being afraid of the old man’s eye. He’s so afraid of his eye, he decide to take the life of the old man. So he kills the old man and hide his body parts under the floor so that no one would know where his body is at. He ends up telling on himself, because he’s so guilty. And In my opinion I strongly believe that the “Tell Tale Heart” is appropriate for 8th grade students.