Title: The Tell-Tale Heart
Author: Edgar Allen Poe
Pages Read: Whole Story
Prompt: Summarize what you read
The first thing that happens is a man telling about the story of how he killed an old man. It starts with the reason he kills the old man. He tells about his eye. How it is a demon eye. It startles hime. There was nothing else it was just the eye. It started off with hime watching him for several nights. He watched him every night for a week until on the last day...
He was watching and he made a noise that startled the old man. He cried out "Who's there?". The old man sat on his bed awake. He tried to calm himself by saying it was just the floor boards. Then the narrator heard the old man's heart. It was thumping. It grew louder. Until the point where he got the old man, the old man shrieked, and the narrator pulled the bed over him and suffocated him with the bed.
Next the narrator dismembered his limbs and hid them under the floor boards. Then came a knock at the door. It was the police. The officers said there were reports of a shriek from inside the house. They came in to investigate. The narrator acted rather cocky. He took them to the room where he killed the man and pulled out chairs for them to sit. The narrator sat on the floor boards that contained the limbs underneath. They talked for a while until a noise got into the narrator's head. It was a thumping noise. What was it... It was the sound of a beating heart. It grew louder by the second but the officers did not hear a sound. It drew the narrator crazy. Until he finally confessed to killing the old man and hiding the limbs under the floor boards.
The first thing that happens is a man telling about the story of how he killed an old man. It starts with the reason he kills the old man. He tells about his eye. How it is a demon eye. It startles hime. There was nothing else it was just the eye. It started off with hime watching him for several nights. He watched him every night for a week until on the last day...
He was watching and he made a noise that startled the old man. He cried out "Who's there?". The old man sat on his bed awake. He tried to calm himself by saying it was just the floor boards. Then the narrator heard the old man's heart. It was thumping. It grew louder. Until the point where he got the old man, the old man shrieked, and the narrator pulled the bed over him and suffocated him with the bed.
Next the narrator dismembered his limbs and hid them under the floor boards. Then came a knock at the door. It was the police. The officers said there were reports of a shriek from inside the house. They came in to investigate. The narrator acted rather cocky. He took them to the room where he killed the man and pulled out chairs for them to sit. The narrator sat on the floor boards that contained the limbs underneath. They talked for a while until a noise got into the narrator's head. It was a thumping noise. What was it... It was the sound of a beating heart. It grew louder by the second but the officers did not hear a sound. It drew the narrator crazy. Until he finally confessed to killing the old man and hiding the limbs under the floor boards.
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ReplyDeleteI have to admit the story was a bit gory, yet I enjoyed it. I really like how Poe puts you through moments of suspense like that, it's great really!
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