Can you imagine suddenly waking up in the night to find a pair of wide white eyes staring back at you? In this short story “The Tell-Tale Heart” By Edgar Allan Poe it talks about a man who kills another man. The killer stalked the victim for 8 nights and on the eighth night, he was more careful. The eighth night the killer murdered his victim and disassembled the body. Based on the evidence presented in the 8th Amendment of the Death Penalty the main character should be sentenced to life in a mental institution because as stated by the evidence from the text the narrator did stalk the victim, plan the murder, and carry out the murder even though he is crazy.
To begin the narrator stalked his victim for 8 long nights. “And this I did for seven long nights” (Poe, 1843). He watched his victim every night and shone a single ray of light on the ‘evil eye’. The narrator was very careful when he was watching his victim. “Every night about twelve o’clock I slowly opened his door” (Poe, 1843). The quotes I have taken from the story are describing his stalking and how he watched the victim for seven long nights. They are also describing how carefully he opened the door and how precise he was when he was watching the victim. Because he was so careful and …show more content…
He planned which night he was going to kill him, he planned how to kill him, and he planned how to hide the body. “So you think that I am mad? A madman cannot plan.” (Poe, 1843). He says that he is mad and he has planned how he is going to kill the man. He also says that a madman cannot plan but if he was a madman how did he plan the murder? He planned the murder while he stalked his victim. When he was planning the murder he took every single detail into account. He made sure that the timing was right, how thick the walls are just in case his victim screams, and which objects in the room would be able to kill
To begin the narrator stalked his victim for 8 long nights. “And this I did for seven long nights” (Poe, 1843). He watched his victim every night and shone a single ray of light on the ‘evil eye’. The narrator was very careful when he was watching his victim. “Every night about twelve o’clock I slowly opened his door” (Poe, 1843). The quotes I have taken from the story are describing his stalking and how he watched the victim for seven long nights. They are also describing how carefully he opened the door and how precise he was when he was watching the victim. Because he was so careful and …show more content…
He planned which night he was going to kill him, he planned how to kill him, and he planned how to hide the body. “So you think that I am mad? A madman cannot plan.” (Poe, 1843). He says that he is mad and he has planned how he is going to kill the man. He also says that a madman cannot plan but if he was a madman how did he plan the murder? He planned the murder while he stalked his victim. When he was planning the murder he took every single detail into account. He made sure that the timing was right, how thick the walls are just in case his victim screams, and which objects in the room would be able to kill