Imagine having a boss with a horrid vulture looking eye that haunts your mind. That’s what the main character has to deal with in The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allen Poe. In this story, the main character has a boss with an eye of a vulture. It had haunted him. He creepily watched the old man sleep at night waiting to get rid of the eye for good. The man has no problems with the old man, but it was his eye that troubled him. He waited for the night, and when it finally came he smothered the old man with a mattress till he suffocated. He wasn't even sacred when the police showed up the next morning. He invited them in and bade them to search the house. He felt so guilty that he heard a ringing noise in his ear which led him to revealing that he killed the old man. The Tell-Tale Heart becomes more suspenseful with every thought. Suspense is the growing tension, fear, and excitement felt by the reader. Poe creates suspense by describing the character's anxiety, using vivid words, repetition, and describing the setting.
In the story, The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allen Poe, Poe describes the anxiety and fear of his characters to create suspense. For example, the reader can feel the great amount of suspense when he writes, “It has welled up from my own bosom, deepening, with its dreadful echo, the terror that distracted me” (Poe …show more content…
In The Tell-Tale Heart by Edger Allen Poe writes, “His room was black as pitch with the thick darkness (for the shutters were closed fastened, through fear of robbers)” (Poe 90). The description builds suspense by explaining with vivid words that the room was “black as pitch” and is perfect for what will take place in that setting. After the murder of the old man Poe writes,” I then took up three planks from the flooring of the chamber, and deposited all between the scantlings” (Poe 93). The description of what the did to hide the body was very graphic so you can imagine exactly what it looked
In the story, The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allen Poe, Poe describes the anxiety and fear of his characters to create suspense. For example, the reader can feel the great amount of suspense when he writes, “It has welled up from my own bosom, deepening, with its dreadful echo, the terror that distracted me” (Poe …show more content…
In The Tell-Tale Heart by Edger Allen Poe writes, “His room was black as pitch with the thick darkness (for the shutters were closed fastened, through fear of robbers)” (Poe 90). The description builds suspense by explaining with vivid words that the room was “black as pitch” and is perfect for what will take place in that setting. After the murder of the old man Poe writes,” I then took up three planks from the flooring of the chamber, and deposited all between the scantlings” (Poe 93). The description of what the did to hide the body was very graphic so you can imagine exactly what it looked