The Tell-Tale Heart Crazy

In “The Tell-Tale Heart,” a man goes crazy and kills an old man. The man brutally murdered him. His reason behind having to do this was the old man’s eye. After killing him, the police showed up because someone reported screams. The man willingly invited them in with great confidence. In “The Tell-Tale Heart” a mad man explains to us how he’s not crazy, but while doing so proved how he is in fact crazy.

The murdering of the old man was very well thought out. The man had planned it for hours, even days. He couldn’t make any mistakes in this process. He slowly crept into the man’s room, and while the man quietly layed in his bed, crying from fear, he came in and killed him. He crushed him with his very own bed. After doing so, he chopped up the man’s body and stuffed his remains under the old floorboards.

It seemed as though the eye was always watching him, maybe even out to get him. Every time he saw the man, he cringed at the sight of his ugly eye. From his point of view, the man deserved to die for having such an ugly thing upon his face. And when he went into the man’s room that night and the light struck the eye, it was the final straw. He had to go…

The man’s confidence level was astonishing. Even when the police arrived unexpectedly, he remained calm and collected. The police went around checking most of the house when the man decided to invite them into the very room in which he had just murdered the old man. The room containing the old man’s remains. All was well until the man began losing his confidence. He was convinced that he could hear the dead old man’s heart beat. He thought if he could hear it, the police surely could, too. And if the police knew he may as well admit to the crime because it wouldn’t matter, so that’s what he