The Vulture Eye

Tell tale heart

Tell tale heart is a story narrated by a guy who says people claim him to be crazy. This man tells us how he managed to sneak in to the room of an old man who had a "vuture eye" and stared at him at his sleep. Every time he saw the eye, the man got angry, finally ending up killing the old man and handing himself out to the police because of guilt.

"His eye was like the eye of a vulture, the eye of one of those terrible birds that watch and wait while an animal dies, and then fall upon the dead body and pull it to pieces to eat it". The author uses a type of imagery that makes you feel uneasy. The author uses this so you can feel what the crazy man in the story goes through, and makes you picture a specific scene.

 

The crazy man

" Its true, Yes! I have been ill, very ill". The man explains he is 'ill' but not crazy, the character knows that he has something wrong, but won't admit it. Instead, he tries to change the story so it looks like it wasn't bad. "Then, carefully, I lifted the cloth, just a little, so that a single, thin, small light fell across that eye.  For seven nights I did this, seven long nights, every night at midnight" This can make us picture that the character is beggining to act irrationally, which might lead him to something unexpected. These are hints the author gives us to what might happen; he makes us picture many different scenes making us wanna read more.

Tell tale heart is a short, although very suspensive story. It makes you keep wondering what might happen next, or what you think shouldn't happen. The story drags you in, really making you wanna read it until the very end.