5/28/2023 0 Comments The tell tale heart pdfThe narrator didn’t see anything but the eye. He opened it slowly and as the light entered the room it fell onto the old man’s eye. He stood silently waiting for the old man to go to sleep but the old man didn’t move also just waiting and listening.įinally, the narrator decided to open up the crevice in his lantern. ![]() He stood incredibly still knowing that the old man couldn’t see him because the room was so dark. The old man asked who was there but the narrator didn’t reply. However, on the eighth night, the old man woke up as the narrator entered his room. His secret visits continued for seven nights. The narrator assures us that it wasn’t the old man that angered him but that it was just the eye that he wanted to destroy.Īnd 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. He would shine his lantern into the room but would never see the “Evil Eye” because the old man was fast asleep. The Tell Tale Heart | Edgar Allan PoeĮvery night at about midnight the narrator would secretly visit the old man’s bedroom. ![]() 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. 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.
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