"The Tell Tale Heart"

Katie Schoenecker
Language Arts
Hour 1

“The Tale Tell Heart”
By: Edgar Allan Poe


My heart is pounding so quickly as I lay on the warm heated bed in the dark room. I can feel my heart pounding harder and harder feeling more paranoid as time ticking on the clock. Feeling so hopeless and can’t do anything about it. Suddenly, my heart beated so fast that my heart just stopped like it ran out of battery. This scene out of the story “The Tale Tell Heart,” by Edgar Allan Poe, is a shocking thrilling story shows that guilt will eat you up in the long run.

This unreliable narrator shows many times throughout this story that guilt will get the best of you. The narrator kept on talking about “the beating in his ears.” But was he really hearing anything? He obviously wasn’t hearing anything the narrator kept thinking about killing the man and the temptation ate him up. If the old, wrinkly, man didn’t have that “evil eye” of his Poe would probably never bother to kill him. It was the distraction of that “evil eye” that got to Poe and couldn’t deal with it anymore.

Some people may think the mode of literature is irony but it’s tragedy. This short crazy passionate story is a very realistic. People do kill other people in the world. There are some weird people that kill for fun but in Poe’s case it was the guilt that was stalking him. “The death was stalking him through his black shirt in the shadow,” said Poe. In the mode of literature, tragedy, the purpose is to give a lesson, and that lesson was guilt.

Even though the mode of literature is important the story’s author wrote this because this story was very much like his life. Poe, the author, was unloved as a kid. Also, another coldhearted thing that happened about his life is that his mom died so he had to get adopted parents. After Poe got adopted parents his adopted mom died. Poe’s mom was the one that loved him more than the father did. The dad didn’t care about Poe as much as the mom did. As soon as Poe’s mom died no money was given to Poe for college. But Poe’s father had to take care of Poe until he was 18 because that would be illegal for the dad. Poe had a tough life as a young fellow while growing up. Who knew someone with such a screwed up life going to be such a successful writer.

The shocking thrilling story showcases the guilt will eat you up in the long run in the story “The Tale Tell Heart.” Poe was a great successful strong writer that writes very admiring pieces of work that relate to his life. But he faced some of the most depressing things in life and wrote about it. Otherwise, if he hadn’t wrote this piece his feelings would have never came out the right way.

Depressed Child

I never wanted my life to turn out like this. Going to school eating, homework, eat, bed. Every day of my life I wake up with tears dripping down on my face falling onto my pillow as I sit in my bed and wonder what’s going to happen next. Sometimes I feel so hopeless and unloved. I wish I could change everything that I’ve done in my life to make myself happy again. I never get to see that bright sunshine when it’s blaring warm outside anymore. Hoping that light will finally shine upon me again.