Tell-Tale Heart Essay-Taryn's

This short novel, Tell-tale Heart, was a very well-laid out story that includes creepy illustrations that paint imagery, characterization and detailed plots. Edgar Allan Poe created a wonderful atmosphere of creative ideas throughout the whole story.

Clever and very descriptive, there were multiple instances of imagery throughout this story that described the mad man's actions. For example this quote of imagery lays out how he sees the Evil Eye in his own set of eyes. "He had the eye of a vulture..." (pg. 625) Clearly the character was disturbed and had an urge to destroy it. It paints a perfect image of the crazed man viewing the eye in his whacked-out mind. The mental human stalked this old folk for 8 nights and one excellent quote that described this scene is as followed. "His room was as black as pitch with thick darkness...." (pg.625) Exquisite imagery detail!

Crazy, gentle, warm-hearted, diagnosed with mental disturbance are the words that best describe these main two characters. An example of one of the characters being diagnosed with a mental disease, is described through one of these quotes in this story. "You fancy me mad..." (pg.626) As you can tell, this quote is from first person view, and tells you that indeed he is a mad man. Although, to him, he thinks his madness is normal. What bothered him and made him crazed was an old man's eye. Stated in the book, the "Pale blue eye..." (pg. 625) made him very mad and he wanted to rid of it forever. The old man was innocent and always paid his debt of to the disturbed man, and he bothered no one. So you might wonder why this madman wold want to harm this old fellow. You must remember though, that the madman, was very very crazed. "For one whole hour I did not move a muscle..." (pg.626) This man stayed silent and still for an hour in the old fellows room. Why would such a human do this? No one knows fully why...all we know is that he wants to kill the Evil Eye. Soon after this imagery was described you could tell that this man really was psycho and hated the eye that caused him misery.

Plots, plots and more plots! Oh my! Here and there, and everywhere even in the old man's room! "With a loud yell I threw open the lantern and leaped into the room..." (pg. 628) Reading this statement you can tell that he was done waiting and wanted to take action on this Evil character. (the eye) When reading these detailed events it was very specific in the what the crazed man was destined to do. After he threw the bed on top of the old man, there was a quote that stuck out to me, and made me realize that he was glad he committed a crime. "He was stone dead and his eye would trouble me no more..." (pg.629) Eventually in the end the guilt crept upon him and he basically turned himself in to the police.

This story was very descriptive and had many suspenseful events. After reading this, it made me cautious of my surroundings! I believe it was an excellent piece of literature, especially since it was written by a man who was very troubled indeed. It showed me that people who are disturbed, really think it's normal. For instance the main character, the crazed man, did not fancy himself mad so he thought it was normal for a human to get rid of such an evil source. Overall, this story was a fantastic piece and it definitely gave me the chills!