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Tucker Collins
Class period: B
The Crazy Narrator
As it downpours outside you can hear a loud screeching roar in the darkness of the night, and he finally killed him. The “Tell Tale Heart,” is a story about a man that is a caretaker of an old man. He does not like the old man’s eye so he wants to kill him. After he kills him he gets paranoid and feels really guilty when the cops come. The cops found nothing but he was on the verge of shooting himself. He was paranoid and overcome with guilt and ripped up the floorboards where he was hiding the dead body. The narrator reveals his true character/self through the description of his feelings, thoughts, and actions of the murder of the old man.
The Narrators starts out being obsessed with the old man eye. He watched him every night at 12 am. A quote from “The Tell Tale Heart” of the Narrator being obsessed with the old man’s eye. “would a madman have been so wise as this? And then, when my head was well in the room, I undid the lantern cautiously oh, so cautiously cautiously (for the hinges creaked) I undid it just so much that a single thin ray fell upon the vulture eye. And this I did for seven long nights every night at midnight.” This quote shows how the narrator was obsessed with the old man’s eye. This obsession resulted in the Narrator killing the old man.
The narrator changed as a when the murder accrued character. Here are two examples, the narrator turned paranoid after the murder and especially when the cops came. He kept hearing things that weren’t actually happening. Here is a quote from the “Tell Tale Heart” that proves his paranoia. “oh, so cautiously cautiously (for the hinges creaked) I undid it just so much that a single thin ray fell upon the vulture eye. And this I did for seven long nights every night at midnight but I found the eye always closed; and so it was impossible to do the work; for it was not the old man who vexed me, but his Evil Eye.”they were making a mockery of my horror! this I thought, and this I think. But anything was better than this agony! Any thing was more tolerable than this derision! I could bear those hypocritical smiles no longer! I felt that I must scream or die! and now again! hark! louder! louder! louder! Louder! “Villains!” I shrieked, “dissemble no more! I admit the deed! tear up the planks! here, here! it is the beating of his hideous heart!” These examples showed the changes in his character, especially because he started relatively normal and changed after the murder, where he was completely paranoid and eventually felt guilty.
After the paranoia when the cops came, he was overcome with guilt. These strong feelings led to him going insane. It was clear when he that he lifted up the floorboards revealing the dead body. A quote from paragraph 15 supporting this statement . “Villains!” I shrieked, “dissemble no more! I admit the deed! — tear up the planks! — here, here! — it is the beating of his hideous heart!” This example showed guilt in a way that he went so insane he showed the cops the dead body.
In conclusion, the readers witnessed the change of the narrator. He seemed to start normal, but eventually obsessed about the oldman’s eye. He became paranoid and killed the old man. The cops eventually showed up and the man felt guilty. After some time, he ripped up the floor boards and admitted to the murder to the cops, he was clearly insane.
