The Tell-Tale Heart
Friday, 26 December 2014 posted at 04:40
The tell tale heart
is a tale of horror. It reflects psychology of a killer. He kills an old man
just because he does not like the old man’s vulture-like eye. The reason is not
sound enough for a murder. But the murderer is not a mad man. He commits the
murder concisely and very methodically. He goes to the old man’s house around
midnight with a muffled light. He pushes the bedroom door open just a little
and finds the man in his bed. The old man wakes up. The killer waits few
minutes. Then he again peeps in and finds the old man lying awake. He looks at the
old man’s vulture eye with disgust and bursts in. He pulls the old man off his
bed and overturns the heavy bed on him. In this way he smothers( ) the old man
to death. Then he chops the dead body into pieces and conceals the pieces under
the wooden boards of the floor.
Just then three
policemen enter the house. They ask questions about a cry that was heard in the
street. It came from the old man’s house. The killer tells them that it might
have been his own cry in a dream. He says the old man was not at home and he
had left him (the killer) to look after the house. He said he slept in the
house. Then suddenly the killer’s fear of detection gets the better
of him, He hears the old man’s heart beating loudly under the floor. The
fear goes on growing rapidly till the killer cries out in confession, declaring
that he has killed the old man. He is arrested and taken away .The story ends
on a note of horror.
Summary by: Muhamad Fitri Iman
Labels: Muhamad Fitri Iman
