Summary Of The Tell-Tale Heart By Edgar Allan Poe

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Ladies and Gentlemen of the jury, I am Olivia Johnson and today I am here to prove that this man was perfectly sane the entire time he killed the innocent old man. “ The night waned, and I worked hastily, out in silence. First of all I dismembered the corpse, I cut off the head and the arms and the legs.” This is a line that the narrator from “The Tell Tale Heart” (by Edgar Allan Poe) and how could someone insane give so much detail to every little move that they make. Many insane people forget what they did in the heat of the moment and clearly in the quote above this man has not forgot one thing that he did that night. Another line from “The Tell Tale Heart” (by Edgar Allan Poe) is “ I then replaced the boards so cleverly so cunningly that no human eye -- not even his -- could …show more content…

He cleverly hid the body parts which someone insane would not be able to think of something so smart in the heat of the moment. He knew exactly what he was doing the entire time and maybe even planned everything out so he wouldn’t get caught. Then, he also states “ And every night around midnight, I turned the latch of his door and opened it.” How could someone so “insane” do the same exact thing every single night and not forget. However, I know what you are thinking how can we prove to me that this man is actually ill I will tell you one thing how do we know he isn’t pretending. In the article “History of Some Sort” (by Dirk Deklien) two brothers killed a police officer, shot someone in an elevator, and a gun chase. On the day of the trial the two brothers tried to convince everyone that they were insane the whole time and couldn’t control their actions. The brothers barked, they howled, they even banged their head on the tables until the bled to prove that they were insane. How do we know that the man on trial today isn’t doing the exact same thing. That he is trying to trick everyone here and tell us he is

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