2/7/12

In the beginning of The Tell Tale Heart, a narrator (main character) talks about an old man with one, pale blue, evil eye.  This eye, is what drove the man to kill him.  He reassured us that he is not a madman, and that his reasons for killing the elderly man were legitimate. He talked about how every night for a week he stalked him and watched the old man sleep in his bed, alone.  One night, the old man woke up with a shriek when he mad a loud noise.  The old man was startled, as expected, but after an hour of neither of them moving a muscle he calmed down a bit.  The man breaking in knew exactly how terrified he was, and felt pity for him.  Still, no one was moving.  He ran out of patience and shone a ray of light on the eye, it gave him goosebumps.  He heard the mans heart thumping intensely.  It was getting louder and louder, he feared that a neighbor would hear, so he burst into the old man's room and killed him.  To make certain, he put his hand over his heart, and felt no pulse or beating.  He took apart the corpse and he put them all under the floorboards with acute precision.  There was no blood, everything was pristine.  Three policemen showed up at the door, he was confident, even cocky.  He let them rest, showed him the bedroom, let them search.  Suddenly, he heard a dull beating.  He was nervous, but conveyed nothing the the men.  The guilt was tearing apart, he yelling the policemen to tear up the floorboards, and he admitting to killing the man with the pale blue, evil eye.