The Tell-Tale Heart Edgar Allan Poe’s, The Tell-Tale Heart, is an amazing story about how a man’s own guilt and conscience can drive him crazy. The boy in this story is very disturbed about his old man’s evil eye. The boy just couldn’t stand looking at this “vulture eye.” He had finally come up with a plan to rid his life of the evil eye, but in doing so, the old …showed first 75 words of 720 total…

…showed last 75 words of 720 total…out. He started hearing the old man’s heart beating again. Finally, he couldn’t take it anymore and confessed to the murder of the old man. So the boy had it all set, he had actually gotten away with the perfect murder, but his own conscience and guilt forced him into insanity and turning himself in. As I stated before, the boy definitely wasn’t a madman, but the murder did drive him insane.