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The tell-tale heart 0 Edgar Allen Poe
Course: Nursing II (ADN-042)
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University: Lake Land College
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Edgar Allan Poe
The Tell-Tale Heart
IT’S TRUE! YES, I HAVE BEEN ILL,
very ill. But why do you say that
I have lost control of my mind,
why do you say that I am mad?
Can you not see that I have full
control of my mind? Is it not clear
that I am not mad? Indeed, the
illness only made my mind, my
feelings, my senses stronger, more
powerful. My sense of hearing
especially became more powerful.
I could hear sounds I had never
heard before. I heard sounds from
heaven; and I heard sounds from
hell!
Listen! Listen, and I will tell
you how it happened. You will see, you will hear how healthy my mind
is.
It is impossible to say how the idea first entered my head. There
was no reason for what I did. I did not hate the old man; I even loved
him. He had never hurt me. I did not want his money. I think it was
his eye. 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. When the old man
looked at me with his vulture eye a cold feeling went up and down my