Question

What was a quote from the text of Edger Allen's 'Tell Tale Heart", That is significant to the story and explain. (preferably with one of the following; figurative language, tone, mood, advancing the plot, personification, characterization, theme.)

Answer 1

“I loved the old man” I don’t know where that was but I know he said it
This is situational Irony because if he actually loved him he would have murderd him.

And then I made a tbear about unreliable narrators...
In the novel “The Tell-Tale Heart” by Edgar Allen Poe, he based his book on suspense but what literary device that spoke out to me is that he is an unreliable narrator. The narrator tries to say he loves the man but he has a different plan for him that doesn’t really show he loves or even likes for that matter. The author states, “I loved the old man… I made up my mind to take the life of the old man, and thus rid myself of the eye forever” (Poe 2). Edgar Allen Poe painted us a clear picture that this man is crazy and most likely ill. We were all taught that we can’t trust anyone that does bad things or isn’t in their right state of mind. In this case, our narrator was not thinking straight. Our narrator got so scared of an eye that looked like a vultures eye that he made a rational decision to murder the man in his sleep. Over something so little as an eye, he took time out of his day to watch him sleep to get the right time to pounce. He did this for weeks. Who knows what he would have done or said to someone who he doesn’t like. In summary, this makes the narrator a cold-blooded murderer who we cannot trust.