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The Tell Tale Heart Edgar Allan Poe is acknowledged today as one of the most brilliant and original writers in American literature. His skillfully wrought tales and poems convey with passionate intensity the mysterious, dreamlike, and often macabre forces that pervaded his sensibility. He is also considered the father of the modern detective story. The Tell Tale Heart is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe, the narrator remains nameless and sexless in the story. H/she takes care of an old man with whom the relationship is unclear. At the beginning of the story, the narrator says that he loved the old man but he hates his eye and h/she believes that the eye is evil. H/she confesses that the one and only reason for killing the old man is his eye: “Whenever it fell upon me, my blood ran cold; and so by degrees – I made up my mind to take the life of the old man”. The narrator begins the story by trying to convince the reader that h/she is not insane. The fact that the old man’s eye is the only motivation to murder proves the narrator is mentally unstable. For seven nights precisely at midnight, the narrator enters the old old, h/she, narrator, man, eye, man’s, story, h/her, room, heart, unconsciousness, says, once, heard, shriek, officers, louder, enters, under, shrieked, reader, one, night, neighbor, narrator’s, midnight, means, just, clearly, bed, because, while, wall, unstable