Edgar Allan Poe's, The Tell-Tale Heart, is an amazing story about how a man's own guilt and conscience can drive him crazy. The boy in this story is very disturbed about his old man's evil eye. The boy just couldn't stand looking at this "vulture eye." He had finally come up with a plan to rid his life of the evil eye, but in doing so, the old man would have to die too. He had no problems with the old man and this was the only thing that troubled him. He really didn't want to kill the old man, but he felt it was worth it to never see that eye again. When he finally goes through with the plan, he is ruined when the officers come and his own guilt drives him to confess the murder.
In no way do I see this boy as a madman. Like he stated in the story, "Madmen know nothing." He had created a whole plan that covered every possible subject. He seemed to have this planned out for weeks; he just couldn't go through with the murder. Until that day that he just couldn't stand looking at that eye.
The boy even planned out what he was going to do with the body. He chopped it up and buried the pieces under the floorboards. He replaced all the boards perfectly and left the room. Just as he had finished and made sure everything was set, he heard a knock at the door. It was the police, but he wasn't nervous. He played everything perfect and he was in the clear. Yet, it wasn't over. As the cops stayed there, the boy's conscience started to get to him. Even though the police suspected nothing, the boy started to flip out. He started hearing the old man's heart beating again. Finally, he couldn't take it anymore and confessed to the murder of the old man.
The boy was extremely nice to the old man the whole week that he was studying his victim. He figured if he was nice to the old man, the last thing the old man would think is that the boy was about to kill him. Every night, the boy examined the old man as he slept. Every night at midnight, the boy would poke his head into the old man's room and watch him sleep. Yet, doing thi
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