The Chills of a Strange Narration

The story called The Tell-Tale Heart writen by Edgar Allan Poe is a strange narration in which a crazy man is telling his feeling towards an old because of his eye. The man lives with an old man and he dont hate him it was the eye that makes him mad because it was similar to the eye of a vultur, dor this reason one day he decided to kill him but actually he want to kill that eye that makes him so angry. Every night at twelve o´clock the man went to the old´s room and watch him sleep but one night he was decided to kill him so he entered to the room but the old man was awake and noticed that someone was in there hiding, but the man with a quickly move take the bedcovers over the old´s head and waited until he died. Suddenly the police came and the man confesed everything and say to the police to pull up the boards in which the dead was hidden.

I like the way Edgar Allan Poe used imagery and makes me understand easily the story and the characters personality, an example is:


"I think it was his eye. His eye was like the eye of a vulture, the eye of one of those terrible birds that watch and wait while an animal dies, and then fall upon the dead body and pulled it to eat it. When the old man looked at me with his vulture eye a cold feeling went up and down my back; even my blood became cold."  

Here Edgar Allan Poe by appealing to the readers sight makes me feel the way the character because his words such as "the eye of a vulture, the eye of one of those terrible birds" makes me picture the eye of the old man and also feel like the character with a cold feeling over my back.

In this story the man wich is the main character has different sides. Has a dark and cruel side but also a sensitive side.

“Die!Die!” The old man gave a loud cry of fear as I fell upon him and held the bedcovers tightly over his head." 

This shows us that the protagonist personality is of someone who does what is proposed in this case was to kill the old man because his eye and is a heartless person with cold personality. However he is not always that cruel and cold.

I pointed at the boards and cried,“Yes! Yes, I killed him. Pull up the boards and you shall see! I killed him. But why does his heart not stop beating?! Why does it not stop!?”

This justifies what I said before that he is not so heartless he is also a person that feels guilty of his actions. 

I really like this story because was really creative and have suspense that is something that I really like about stories. Also the final was unexpected because I thought that it would end he living happy instead of the police knocking his door and he confessing what he just did.