Imagine a man in your room watching you in the dark of the night for 8 days. In the short story, “The Tell-Tale Heart” by Edgar Allan Poe the calculated madman who tells a story of how he kills the old man in his bedroom. It is told in first person by the narrator killer. He has an obsession with the man’s “eye of a vulture.” At the beginning of the story he’s trying to convince us that he is not mad, but how wise and cautious he was when he killed the old man. Based on the evidence presented in the 8th Amendment of the Death Penalty the main character should be sentenced to life in prison with physcotic care because as stated by evidence in the text he commited murder and he was mentally ill. To begin the main character should be sentenced to 20 years in prison because he commited murder. The narrator describes, “It is impossible to say how first the idea entered my brain; but once conceived, it haunted me day and night. ” (Poe, 1843) When he first conceives the idea to kill the old man, he describes that the old man had never wronged him, it was his “Evil Eye.” Soon after, he describes how cautiously and with foresight he …show more content…
However, he placed a lamp in the room to watch over the man. He stayed in the room for 7 night observing the man while he was sleeping. On the eighth night, the old man wakes up suddenly due to a noise the killer makes. He waits for an hour and stared at the old man, getting mad while staring at the “Evil Eye” of the scared, frail man. He abruptly dragged the man to the floor and heaved the hefty bed over him. This is significant because he murdered the man in “heat of passion.” Additionally, he hints over and over that he kills the man because of his “Evil Eye.” “For it was not the old man who vexed me, but his Evil Eye.”(Poe, 1843). The eye influenced him to murder the man, but he schemed the whole thing. Before he killed the man, the eye was closed so he wasn’t