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Tell the tale heart (1843)

2. Edgar Allan Poe, was an American writer, editor, and literary critic. Poe is best known for his
poetry and short stories, particularly his tales of mystery and the macabre. Widely regarded as
a central figure of Romanticism in the United States and American literature as a whole, he
was one of the country's earliest practitioners of the short story. Poe is generally considered
the inventor of the detective fiction genre and is further credited with contributing to the
emerging genre of science fiction.[1] He was the first well-known American writer to try to earn a
living through writing alone, resulting in a financially difficult life and career.
3. In is in america wherein the oldman’s house is old.
4.horror and psychological terror
5.Our narrator is such a wreck, it's hard not to feel sorry for him. He's nervous ("very dreadfully
nervous"), paranoid, and physically and mentally ill. He doesn't know the difference between the
"real" and the "unreal," and seems to be completely alone and friendless in the world. We suspect
that he rarely sleeps. He's also a murderer.
6. The narrator is the protagonist because he's the main character, and we see everything from his
perspective. He not a very nice protagonist, but we can still empathize with him.
7.It's much more comfortable to place the narrator in this role than in the role of protagonist. It's
easier to express condemnation of a murderer than to express compassion or pity. In any case, the
narrator antagonizes the old man to death.
8. The narrator goes to the old man's room every night for a week, ready to do the dirty deed. But,
the sleeping man won't open his eye. Since the eye, not the man, is the problem, the narrator can't
kill him if the offending eye isn't open.
9.The main character of "The Tell-Tale Heart" promises us a tale of cunning and cleverness, and
delivers. At the onset, we doubt the cleverness; maybe we even feel cleverer than the story. But as
Edgar Allan Poe's ten-paragraph masterpiece unfolds, we find we are caught in the story's web,
just as the characters are. We must regain our cunning and cleverness to get out. It'll make us
smarter.
10. Hearken! and observe how healthily – how calmly I can tell you the whole story.

1. The Main character is the murderer.

2. He want to kill his boss.
3. Every time that the old man goes to bed, the old man wont open his eyes for him to be killed
by the narrator.
4. The narrator kills the old man with his own bed and then cuts up the body and hides it under
the bedroom floor.
5. Guilt will always get you in the end. SIn is never hidden from the self and we all sit in judgment
of ourselves in the end.

The narrator wants to show that he is not insane, and offers a story as proof. In that story, the initial
situation is the narrator's decision to kill the old man so that the man's eye will stop looking at the
narrator.
The narrator goes to the old man's room every night for a week, ready to do the dirty deed. But, the
sleeping man won't open his eye. Since the eye, not the man, is the problem, the narrator can't kill
him if the offending eye isn't open.This isn't much of a complication. The man has to wake up in
order for the narrator to kill him. If the man still wouldn't wake up after months and months of the
narrator trying to kill him, now that would be a conflict.The narrator kills the old man with his own
bed and then cuts up the body and hides it under the bedroom floor.The narrator is pretty calm and
collected when the police first show up. He gives them the guided tour of the house, and then
invites them to hang out with him in the man's bedroom. But, the narrator starts to hear a terrible
noise, which gets louder and louder.Well, the noise gets even louder, and keeps on getting louder
until the narrator can't take it anymore. Thinking it might make the noise stop, the narrator tells the
cops to look under the floorboards.Up to this moment, the narrator doesn't identify the sound. It's
described first as "a ringing," and then as "a low, dull, quick sound – much such a sound as a
watch makes when enveloped in cotton" (9). Only in the very last line does the narrator conclude
that the sound was "the beating of [the man's] hideous heart!" (10)