THE TELL TALE HEART

THE TELL TALE HEART

1. AUTHOR

   • January 19, 1809 Boston, massachusetts
   • October 7, 1849 Baltimore, maryland
   • WAS
     • Editor
     • Writer
     • Critic
     • Poet
   • WRITE
     • Short Stories
     • Poetry
     • LITERARY GENRE
       • Horror
       • Mystery
       • Gothic
       • Dark Romanticism
       • Father of the detective novel
     • Novels

2. OTHER DETAILS

   • WRITTEN
     • Third-Person Subjective Narrator
     • In January 1843
   • SUMMARY
     • A man who have a deranged mind capable of commit a perfect crime, but unable to withstand the pressure of their own conscience.
   • TOPICS
     • Crime
     • Madness
     • Evil Intention
     • Guilt

3. CHARACTERS

   • • Nervous
     • Mad
     • Cautious
   • • Pale blue film in his eye
     • Rich
     • Fearful
     • Defenseless

4. PLACES

   • Old man's house
   • Old man's chamber

5. IMPORTANT FACTS

   • The pale blue eye of the old man made the narrator's blood ran cold.
   • The narrator thought taking the old man's life.
   • During 7 nights, at midnight, the narrator opened slowly the door of the old man's chamber and with a lantern pointed light on his face. The old man was always asleep.
   • In the 8 night, when the narrator was opening the door of the old man's chamber, the old man woke up.
   • The old man was very frightened because he felt that someone was in his room.
   • Cautiously the narrator continued to open the door and again he illuminated the old man's face.
   • On this occasion the old man was awake and a ray shooted out full upon his "horrid" eye, it grow angry the narrator.
   • Just then, the narrator heard a deep and growing beating. It was the beating of the old man's heart.
   • The strange beating of the old man's heart made the narrator lost control.
   • For fear that some neighbor could heard the beating, the narrator ran into the chamber of the old man and threw him to the floor and pulled the heavy bed over him. The narrator smothered him to death.
   • The beating stopped
   • The narrator quartered the old man's body to hide it under the wooden floorboards, also he arranged the chamber as if nothing had happened. He finished it at 4 a.m.
   • Suddenly, the street door there came a knocking, when the narrator opened it, he found three police officers, who had been called by a neighbor who heard a cry.
   • The narrator welcomed the police to the house, showed them the old man's bedroom so that they could see that there was nothing to worry about and he told them that the cry was for a nightmare.
   • Even, the narrator invited the officers to sit and rest. The narrator placed his chair over the very spot where he had concealed the old man's body.
   • The narrator was anxious that the police could listen to the beating and knew about the crime. However the police were very calm, not like the narrator, he was suffering.
   • The beating was so strong and unbearable that the schizophrenic narrator shouted his sin, he confessed his crime while he broke the wooden floor to extract the beating and bloody old man's heart.
   • Suddenly the beating began to sound again.

6. RELATIONSHIPS

   • Old Man was the benefactor of the Narrator
   • The Narrator loved Old Man
   • The Narrator did not hate the Old Man, only his "evil" eye

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