The Tell-Tale Heart
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- Exposition
- Once conceived, the idea haunted me day and night.
- Rising Action One
- His eye is closed.
- Rising Action 2
- WHO'S THERE?!
- The story opens with the antagonist, who is the narrator, telling the listener that he can prove his sanity by how calmly he can tell us how he murdered an old man. The narrator is unreliable because he claims that he has a disease that allows him to hear things in heaven, the earth, and in hell but then contradicts himself by saying he can healthily tell us the whole story. He tells us that his motivator for murder is simply the old man's vulture eye.
- Climax
- He is dead..
- For seven nights straight, on midnight, the narrator watches the old man sleep. He is is dissimulation when watching him without waking him up. He spends a whole hour putting in his head through the door frame and makes sure it is sufficient. He uses his lantern and opens it to shine a small light as a spiders web on old mans eye, seeing if it is open. On the eight night the narrator stifled a laugh, feeling powerful.
- Falling Action
- As the narrator chuckled at the old man, his finger slips on the lantern fastening making a noise. The noise was just loud enough to wake the old man startling both of them. The narrator thinks he hears the old mans heart beating and stands very still. There was nothing but silence and tension for an hour as it is still pitch black. As time goes heart beat grows louder and the narrator has a view on the old mans eye. He worries if the neighbors will hear the old mans scream.
- Resolution
- I did it, I confess.
- The narrator rushes in and yells at the old man. The old man was able to do one scream before the narrator drag him off his mattress and smothers him with it until he takes his last breath.
- The narrator thought of himself as profound with what he did with the body next. He picks up the corpse and puts it in the bathtub. He then chops off the limbs in the tub and washed out the blood. He decides to put the limbs under the floorboards of the old mans chamber. Moments later police had arrived stating the neighbors heard shrieks. The narrator lets the police in and lets them search with no fear. He suggest for the policemen to sit in the bedroom of the old man. As time went on he begins to hear the heart beat. The narrator believes the policemen had the audacity to mock him when he saw no reactions on their faces.
- I committed the perfect crime
- The narrator felt he was derision by the officers still having no reaction. The heart beat grow louder and his guilt increases causing him to confess.
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