Tell Tale Heart
Edgar Allan Poe's, The Tell-Tale Heart, is an amazing story about how a man's own guilt and conscience can drive him crazy. The boy in this story is very disturbed about his old man's evil eye. The boy just couldn't stand looking at this "vulture eye." He had finally come up with a plan to rid his life of the evil eye, but in doing so, the old man would have to die too. He had no problems with the old man and this was the only thing that troubled him. He really didn't want to kill the old man, but he felt it was worth it to never see that eye again. When he finally goes through with the plan, he is ruined when the officers come and his own guilt drives him to confess the murder. In no way do I see this boy as a madman. Like he stated in the story, "Madmen know nothing." He had created a whole plan that covered every possible subject. He seemed to have this planned out for weeks; he just couldn't go through with the murder. Until that day that he just couldn't stand looking at that eye.
Then after the boy made the smallest sound with the lantern, the old man instantly jump up and shouted, "Who's there?" The boy stood there motionless just thinking to himself. Every night, the boy examined the old man as he slept. He started hearing the old man's heart beating again. The boy stood there with high anxiety and waited to make his move. Yet, on this night the old man may have sensed the boy's presence. He finally realized all the power that he possessed and that he was holding the old man's life in his hands. The boy was extremely nice to the old man the whole week that he was studying his victim. Even though the police suspected nothing, the boy started to flip out. When the man turned the boy shined a single beam of light upon his evil eye. He chopped it up and buried the pieces under the floorboards. Finally, after he couldn't take it anymore, he lunged into the room with a loud yell and killed the old man. He replaced all the boards perfectly and left the room. The man may not have even heard the sound, but was just unsettled and may have felt the presence of death. As I stated before, the boy definitely wasn't a madman, but the murder did drive him insane.
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