This document contains a summary of Edgar Allan Poe's short story "The Tell-Tale Heart" retold by Helen Sillett and Jerry Stemach. It is presented in two parts. Part one describes how the narrator becomes obsessed with an old man's eye and plans to kill him, carefully gaining his trust beforehand. He finally kills the man by smothering him with a bed. Part two details how the narrator dismembers and hides the body, but is eventually driven mad by the sound of the old man's heart, which he insists the police officers can hear too. He confesses to the murder.
When sixteen year old Claire Wallhart discovers that she is a Night Hunter, her world is turned upside down. With the help of her instructor. Erik, she will fight off the evil creatures of the night in order to protect all man kind.
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Essay Instructions
Essay #1 is a Subjective Literary Analysis of Edgar Allan Poe's short story, "The Tell-Tale Heart". This short story belongs to the horror/mystery genre of fiction. It was written in 1843, and it tells of a man's obsession with an old man, in particular, the old man's eye.
It is a short story filled with symbolism and psychological drama, so after you have read the text, you will compose a 5-8 paragraph essay (Introduction-Body-Conclusion) analyzing and explaining if, in fact, the narrator's actions are those of a madman or a sane man who knows how to play a madman. You decide.
Your essay is NOT a summary; in fact, none of your writing for this course is a summary. I do not expect you to re-tell the story (plot).
Your essays are designed to present your opinion(s) on the literature and encourage the reader (me) to understand your opinions, criticisms, observations, and analyses.
Your essays will involve "explication" which is essentially the "taking apart" of the reading selection and referencing specific lines/sentences and paragraphs to support your stance/thesis.
The Tell-Tale Heart
Poe, Edgar Allan
About Poe:
Edgar Allan Poe was an American poet, short story writer, playwright, editor, critic, essayist and one of the leaders of the American Romantic Movement. Best known for his tales of the macabre and mystery, Poe was one of the early American practitioners of the short story and a pro- genitor of detective fiction and crime fiction. He is also credited with contributing to the emergent science fiction genre. Poe died at the age of 40. The cause of his death is undetermined and has been attributed to al- cohol, drugs, cholera, rabies, suicide (although likely to be mistaken with his suicide attempt in the previous year), tuberculosis, heart disease, brain congestion and other agents. Source: Wikipedia
TRUE! – nervous – very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad? The disease had sharpened my senses – not destroyed – not dulled them. Above all was the sense of hearing acute. I heard all things in the heaven and in the earth. I heard many things in hell. How, then, am I mad? Hearken! and observe how health- ily – how calmly I can tell you the whole story.
It is impossible to say how first the idea entered my brain; but once conceived, it haunted me day and night. Object there was none. Passion there was none. I loved the old man. He had never wronged me. He had never given me insult. For his gold I had no desire. I think it was his eye! yes, it was this! He had the eye of a vulture –a pale blue eye, with a film over it. Whenever it fell upon me, my blood ran cold; and so by degrees – very gradually –I made up my mind to take the life of the old man, and thus rid myself of the eye forever.
Now this is the point. You fancy me mad. Madmen know nothing. But you should have seen me. You should have seen how wisely I proceeded –with what caution –with what foresight –with ...
DIRECTIONS1. Read the short story.2. SummarizeExplain DaliaCulbertson719
DIRECTIONS:
1. Read the short story.
2. Summarize/Explain what happened in the story.
3. Describe (in 1-2 paragraphs) why you think it is the narrator "broke" and told the truth/confessed.
4. Explain why you do or do not believe people inherently WANT to be honest. (Use this story as the main reasoning for your argument.)
The story can also be read here: xroads.virginia.edu/~hyper/poe/telltale.html
THE TELL-TALE HEART
by Edgar Allan Poe
1843
TRUE! --nervous --very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad? The disease had sharpened my senses --not destroyed --not dulled them. Above all was the sense of hearing acute. I heard all things in the heaven and in the earth. I heard many things in hell. How, then, am I mad? Hearken! and observe how healthily --how calmly I can tell you the whole story.
It is impossible to say how first the idea entered my brain; but once conceived, it haunted me day and night. Object there was none. Passion there was none. I loved the old man. He had never wronged me. He had never given me insult. For his gold I had no desire. I think it was his eye! yes, it was this! He had the eye of a vulture --a pale blue eye, with a film over it. Whenever it fell upon me, my blood ran cold; and so by degrees --very gradually --I made up my mind to take the life of the old man, and thus rid myself of the eye forever.
Now this is the point. You fancy me mad. Madmen know nothing. But you should have seen me. You should have seen how wisely I proceeded --with what caution --with what foresight --with what dissimulation I went to work! I was never kinder to the old man than during the whole week before I killed him. And every night, about midnight, I turned the latch of his door and opened it --oh so gently! And then, when I had made an opening sufficient for my head, I put in a dark lantern, all closed, closed, that no light shone out, and then I thrust in my head. Oh, you would have laughed to see how cunningly I thrust it in! I moved it slowly --very, very slowly, so that I might not disturb the old man's sleep. It took me an hour to place my whole head within the opening so far that I could see him as he lay upon his bed. Ha! would a madman have been so wise as this, And then, when my head was well in the room, I undid the lantern cautiously-oh, so cautiously --cautiously (for the hinges creaked) --I undid it just so much that a single thin ray fell upon the vulture eye. And this I did for seven long nights --every night just at midnight --but I found the eye always closed; and so it was impossible to do the work; for it was not the old man who vexed me, but his Evil Eye. And every morning, when the day broke, I went boldly into the chamber, and spoke courageously to him, calling him by name in a hearty tone, and inquiring how he has passed the night. So you see he would have been a very profound old man, indeed, to suspect that every night, just at twelve, I looked in upon him w ...
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Telltale heart
1. FAMOUS SHORT STORIES
The
Telltale
Heart
and Other Short Stories
by Edgar Allan Poe
retold by
Helen Sillett and Jerry Stemach
Don Johnston Incorporated
Volo, Illinois
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The Telltale
Heart
Part One
It’s true! I am nervous as I tell you
this. But I have always been a nervous
person. Am I insane? A madman?
Never!
You may think that I am mad, but I
can promise you that I am not. The
disease did not destroy my sense of touch,
or my senses of sight and hearing. If
anything, the disease only made my senses
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3. sharper. I hear all things in heaven and
on the earth. I can even hear things from
hell. How then, can you think of me as
some kind of madman? My head is clear,
and I understand what I am doing. Listen
to how calmly I can tell you the story of
what happened to me.
I cannot be sure how the idea first
entered my brain, but once it was in my
mind, the idea haunted me day and night.
I never had any interest in the old
man’s riches, so it was not about his gold.
I did not hate him either. In fact, I loved
the old man. He had never wronged me
in any way, never given me any insult.
No, he had done nothing to deserve what
I did to him.
If you asked me to name a single
cause of what happened that night, I
would tell you it was his eye. Yes, it was
this! One of the old man’s eyes was like
the eye of a vulture — a pale blue eye,
with a film over it. Whenever that eye fell
upon me, my blood ran cold.
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4. And so it was, little by little, that I made
up my mind to take the life of the old
man, and rid myself of his hideous eye
forever.
I know you think that I am a
madman, but madmen act foolishly. A
madman would have rushed in without a
plan and tripped himself up with some
silly mistake. I proceeded carefully,
making sure at every step that the old
man suspected nothing. I was never
kinder to the old man than during the
whole week before I killed him.
“Good morning! I trust that you slept
well,” I would say in a hearty way when
he rose each morning.
“Are you enjoying the sunshine?”
I asked when he took his tea in the
garden each afternoon.
“Good night and pleasant dreams,”
I told him as he went to bed each night.
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5. Then, every night at midnight, I
turned the latch and opened his chamber
door — oh, so gently! I spent a whole
hour opening that door. I carried a
lantern with me. The lantern was lit, but
I kept the shade on it tightly closed so
that no light shone from it.
I held the lantern out ahead of me,
putting it into the dark room. Then I put
my head into the room — slowly, slowly
— so that I did not disturb the old man’s
sleep.
Ha! If you could have seen me on
those nights, you would not be thinking
that I have lost my mind. What madman
would have moved as wisely and carefully
as I did?
When my head was inside the room,
I opened the shade on the lantern — oh so
slowly, until a single dim ray of light fell
on the vulture eye.
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7. I repeated these movements for seven
nights, but for seven nights the eye was
closed. How could I kill the man when
his eye was closed? After all, it was not
the old man who troubled me, but the Evil
Eye.
On the eighth night I moved even
more slowly in opening the chamber door.
He had no idea of my secret thoughts.
I chuckled at this and perhaps he heard
me because suddenly he moved on the bed.
You might think I’d have stopped then,
but no! The room was as black as ink,
and I knew he could not see that the door
was open.
I was about to open the lantern to let
out one thin ray of light when my thumb
slipped on the tin shade of the lantern.
The old man sprang up in his bed, crying
out — “Who’s there?”
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8. I kept quite still and said nothing.
I knew that he could not see me, because
the shutters on his windows were tightly
closed and the room was completely dark.
For one whole hour I did not move a
muscle, and he did not lie down. He was
still sitting up in the bed listening and
waiting for some sign that Death was
near.
I knew what the old man was feeling,
and I took pity on him. He was probably
trying to find some reason to explain the
noise. No doubt he was thinking, “It is
nothing but the wind in the chimney,” or
“It is a mouse crossing the floor.” Yes, he
was trying to comfort himself in this way,
but it was useless. Death was in the room
now, and the old man knew it. He could
not see my head in the darkness, but
surely he felt my presence. I must confess
that I chuckled in my heart at his
helplessness.
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9. Now! I thought to myself. But
careful, careful!
I placed my thumb on the shade again
and opened it a tiny crack until a single
dim ray of light, as thin as a spider’s
thread, shot out from the lantern and fell
upon the vulture eye.
It was open! — wide, wide open
— and I grew furious as I gazed upon it.
It was a dull, hideous blue that chilled me
to the bone as I gazed upon it.
From across the silent bedroom, there
came to my ears a dull, quick sound, like
the sound of a watch that had been
wrapped in cotton. I knew that sound
well. It was the beating of the old man’s
heart. I stood still and hardly took a
breath. I held the lantern so that its
single ray fell upon the eye. In the
meantime, the beating heart grew louder,
louder every moment! Surely his heart
will burst! I thought to myself.
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11. Then I was seized by a new terror. Surely
the sound would be heard by a neighbor!
I knew that I must act quickly to stop
the beating heart and to rid myself of the
vulture eye forever. The old man’s hour
had come.
With a loud yell, I threw open the
lantern and leaped into the room.
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Part Two
The old man shrieked once — only
once. In an instant I dragged him to the
floor, and pulled the heavy bed on top of
his frail old body. I smiled, for the deed
was at last done.
For many minutes the heart beat on
with a muffled sound until finally, it
stopped. The old man was dead.
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14. I pulled the bed away and studied his
corpse. I placed my hand upon his heart
and held it there. There was no pulse, no
sound. Yes, he was stone, stone dead.
His eye would trouble me no more.
If you still think I am mad, you will
change your mind as soon as I tell you
how careful I was to hide the body.
First I cut off the head from the
corpse, then the arms and the legs.
I lifted up three planks from the floor
in the bedroom, and placed the remains of
the old man in the space beneath the floor.
I replaced the boards so carefully that no
human eye — not even his eye — could
have found anything wrong. There was
nothing to wash out, no spots or stains of
any kind. I had been careful to catch all
the blood in a tub — ha! ha!
I had worked deep into the night,
without a noise. It was four o’clock in the
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15. morning when my task was at last
completed.
Just as I finished, there came a
knocking at the front door. With a light
heart, I went to see who was there. What
did I have to fear? Nothing. I had not
left a single trace of the killing.
I opened the door, and three policemen
stepped inside.
A neighbor had heard a shriek and
the police had been sent to search the
house. I smiled, for what did I have to
fear? “Oh, I must confess that the shriek
was my own,” I told them. “You see, I
was having a bad dream.”
I took my visitors into every room.
I invited them to search — search well.
The old man was away in the country,
I explained.
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16. At last we arrived at his chamber. I
was confident they would find no trace of
what I had done. I was so confident, in
fact, that I carried chairs into the old
man’s room and invited the officers to sit
there to relax from their night’s work.
As for myself, I placed my own chair
upon the very spot where the old man’s
corpse was hidden. The officers clearly
did not suspect me. My calm and easy
manner convinced them that I had
committed no crime. We talked about all
sorts of things.
But before long, I felt myself getting
pale, and I wished that the officers would
leave. My head ached, and I heard a faint
ringing in my ears. Still, the officers sat
and chatted.
The ringing in my ears became more
distinct. I kept talking with the officers,
hoping that the noise would go away, but
it only grew louder. Soon I realized that
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17. the sound was not in my ears, but all
around me. I raised my voice to drown it
out. The officers seemed not to hear the
sound at all.
No doubt I now grew very pale. I
spoke more loudly and more quickly until
I gasped for breath. The beating went on
— louder, louder, louder! What could I
do? It was a low, dull, quick sound
— much like the sound a watch makes
that has been wrapped in cotton. I gasped
for breath. But still the officers heard
nothing. They only smiled and chatted
pleasantly.
Oh God! What could I do? I stood up
and paced the floor. I gestured wildly
with my arms, hoping to distract the men
from the sound. I raged. I swore. I
scraped my chair back and forth, back and
forth on the boards above the old man’s
remains, but the noise only grew louder
— louder — louder!
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19. Was it possible they did not hear it?
Almighty God! — no, no! They heard!
— they suspected! — they knew! They
were mocking me. This is what I thought
then, and this is what I think now.
I could not stand the noise a moment
longer! I could not endure their smiles!
I felt that I must scream or die! — and
now — again! — louder! louder! louder!
louder!
Throwing the chair aside, I shrieked.
“Villains, stop pretending! I admit it!
I admit the deed! Tear up the planks
— here, here! — it is the beating of his
hideous heart!”
The End
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