Tell Tale-Heart

Envision having to live with a mad man. He doesn’t think that he is crazy, but in all reality he is. No matter how sane this man tries to seem he’s not. The man is grumpy, immature and wants to kill someone that isn’t even doing anything bad to him. Edgar Allen Poe was a writer that had a dark past and uses great symbols that makes this story the Tell Tale-Heart a tragedy.

Evil eye is a creepy word that had to symbolize death for the old man. Death is a very scary thing for most people, but for the old man he had a reason to be scared. The Evil eye of the old man was the part that drove his house keeper mad. Although he claims to be something other than mad, we have proven him wrong; “after you hear the precautions I have taken with his body you will think no longer that I am mad.” “I have hid the body under the floor boards, you do not call me mad now do u?” After the man had said this, I would think he was more mad than I had thought. Death had to be the one thing that this old man did not see coming, the evil eye was the housekeepers worst enemy.

Living a life of abandonment is not easy, but Edgar did it with some struggle. Growing up in the place of Edgar would be a huge struggle for most people. Abandoned as a child he lived a horrid life, living all alone with a step father that doesn’t like you. Would you want to live with someone that hates you? Most people wouldn’t want to.

Although he lived a life that had many challenges he did not let it take him down. Edgar was a very strong independent person that had written stories about evil eyes and death. Abandoned as a child he still did many miraculous pieces.