Edgar Allan Poe’s short story “The Tell-Tale Heart” is appropriate for 8th graders. It can be used as an example for students to see the ways how horror techniques are used in stories of that genre. “The Tell-Tale Heart” won’t cause murderous thoughts, or make the reader go insane. Reading a story won’t give the urge to kill someone.
Although Poe’s short work of fiction does provide insight on the narrator’s madness, it does not induce psychotic thoughts. For instance, in lines 82-83 in “The Tell-Tale Heart,” the narrator says, “...Death, in approaching him, had stalked with his black shadow before him, and enveloped the victim.” Even though this is a particularly dark phrase, it is not entirely believable, since the narrator has repeatedly
Although Poe’s short work of fiction does provide insight on the narrator’s madness, it does not induce psychotic thoughts. For instance, in lines 82-83 in “The Tell-Tale Heart,” the narrator says, “...Death, in approaching him, had stalked with his black shadow before him, and enveloped the victim.” Even though this is a particularly dark phrase, it is not entirely believable, since the narrator has repeatedly