“The story “Tell Tale Heart" is also a story with horror and suspense. in the very beginning of the story the
writer surprises the reader by declaring that he wished to kil the old man anly because he did not like one of
hseyes, The reader does not expect itso fast, not so early in the story thus he haunts the reader throughout
the story The story also tells us how » murderer who could have saved himself easly and everything was
cing his way But he could not face the prick of hisconscious in the form of his loud heart beat and confess his
crime before the police
‘The murderer tells his story in detail. He tells us that he is not mad. He planned everything very carefully.The
rmurderer had a friend. He was an old man and the murderer did not kg ane of his eyes because it was like
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the eye of @ vultures a8, The murder loved tHe ole man but his ev Was repsive to him. He could not just
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bear it-Thus he decided to kill him in order to get rid of hiseye, He made x. Gper planning for this.He continued
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tring ol the old man for seven nights. He would open the dooraf iftGain very carefully every night just at
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‘midnight but he could not kill him because he always found his evga twas that because he did nots
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distike the old man s' evil eye opened. He wanted to enter th an ‘ut his thumb slipped on the fastening of
the lantern and the old man sprang up in his bed, cryingegtaWhe is there? The murderer kept himself still for
about an hour, Then he heard the sound of his wogtepis own heat was beating very loudly threw a ray of
light from the lantern on hin. It fell an the evieits 3S open. This infuriated himLY3 mae, He felon him at
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once, dragged him on the floor and pulled Ags Beaby bed on him. The old man was dead because of the
suffocation’ 92, He cut the corpse ibis, took up
‘three planks from the floor and deposited the pieces
othe dead body there. He maceaeVibing ust normal
#0 that no one could doubt anything wrong,
ven he had finished his work, three policemen arrived. A shriek had been heard by a neighbor and they had
ome to check.The murderer, however, satisfied ther that the shrick had been uttered by him in a dream and
‘the old man had gone to the village. The policemen were satisfied and sat down Just for a chat. Inthe
‘meaning the heart of the murderer started beating so loudly that it beeame Intolerable» JA for him,
Mewes, infact, inthe grip of his conscience and had no way out except to confess his crime before the
police.
'sthe killer in the story a mad man? Sane di or insanewS\y
‘Na sory fll of horror and suspense. The kil tells the story how he went to the old man s' room at mid
Sight. Heopened the door very carefully but his thumb slipped from the fasten
ing of.the lantern and the noise
Awakened the old man sat up his bed peering into the darkness,
The killer waited for about an hour but.th
‘ff man did nat lie down to sleep. it seemed he was alarmed The killer coutd nat bear the suspense. tHedSated,
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