The Tell Tale Heart Storyboard
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- "...the old man sprang up in bed, crying out --"Who's there?"
- "In an instant I dragged him to the floor, and pulled the heavy bed over him. I then smiled gaily..."
- "I then took up three planks from the flooring of the chamber, and deposited all between the scantlings. I then replaced the boards so cleverly, so cunningly..."
- The narrator slowly tries to open the door to the old man's bedroom, but abruptly wakes him up in the process.
- "No doubt I now grew very pale; --but I talked more fluently, and with a heightened voice. Yet the sound increased --and what could I do? It was a low, dull, quick sound..."
- After waiting for his chance, the narrator drags the old man out of his bed and throws the bed over him.
- "Villains!" I shrieked, "dissemble no more! I admit the deed! --tear up the planks! here, here! --It is the beating of his hideous heart!"
- The narrator dismembers the old man and buries him below the floorboards.
- Three police arrive to the narrator's house, and although calm at first, the narrator hears a faint beating of the old man's heart that eventually becomes louder and louder, driving the narrator insane.
- After having enough of it, the narrator confesses to the murder and tells the officers to tear up the floorboards.
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