Tell-Tale Heart Essay!!

Edgar Allen Poe displayed his dark talents through imagery, a creative plot, and a suspenseful mood in Tell-Tale Heart. This story portrays a murder through the eyes of a killer, keeping the reader in its grasp. What he hears, they hear. What he sees, they see. When he senses, the reader tenses.
The way Edgar uses imagery puts the reader in his place. You become lost in his words and cannot get out. "Presently, I hear a slight groan..." This quote was on page 626 in our literature book. It took me by surprise, for the old man had slept through the previous intrusions. This also quickened my heart beat, along with the suspense, because I knew what was coming, and that it would happen soon. "Whenever it fell upon me, my blood ran cold..." These two quotes settled into the same page, and the page had the highest point of suspense. When Poe described the killer's blood running cold, I could imagine all of the things that I'm afraid of. It made the story easier to relate to this way. Through this description alone, it sounded like a form of self defense on the killer's side. After all, the eye had been tormenting him for years, up until his death, and onto the resolution.
Every element of the plot was set up by a master. The resolution was completely unexpected, and the climax had me on the edge, even while rereading the story. "He shrieked once-once only. In an instant I dragged him to the floor..." Page 628 was the late middle of the story, and most author's would have ended it then and there. Poe, however, went on to tell a different resolution. It was quite clever, actually, to have 2 resolutions. The old man's death was first, and the confession came later. "I admit the deed!-tear up the plank-here, here!-is the beating of his hideous heart!" This resolution on page 630 was a shock to me. The killer had seemed just fine when he had killed the old man. He had even seemed fine when the police showed up. Yet his own madness had seized him, and he believed his heart beat was that of his victim. The poor man had received kindness for a week, but fear consumed him on his last night.
When Poe described the old man's terror that night, my stomach dropped. The mood was thick enough for me to get lost in it and forget that is was only a story. "...it was the groan of mortal terror." I read page 627, already expecting death. I didn't have the slightest idea of Poe's ability to frighten. I felt suspense, of course, but i also felt the fear of that old man. It was like I took his place for that one minute it took me to read his doom. "And now a new anxiety seized me..." Curiously enough, I felt some pity for the killer when I read this quote on page 628. He was insane, and he thought that the neighbors would hear the man's heartbeat. That quickened the murder, and ended the fear for a little while.
This story was almost dangerous to read. Once you start reading it, you forget about the real world around you and it's very hard to get free. It was an amazing story, and I look forward to reading it, again. And again, and again.