Tell tale heart.

Edgar Allan Poe was born in the United States in 1809 and died in 1849. He was a poet, writer and an American journalist. Edgar Allan Poe lost his parents when he was very young and was adopted by another family in Virginia. He spent one year at the Virginia University and then he enlisted in the army where he spent two years. He got married with his cousin Virginia Clemm, but later she died from tuberculosis.
On October, 1849 he died from alcoholism, brain congestion, cholera and other agents.
He is well known for his poetry, horror and science fiction stories.
His career started with a poem book named The Tamerlane and Other Poems.

Timeline

1.- The narrator tells his not mad and says why.
2.- the narrator goes to the old man’s room and tries to kill him.
3.- the narrator goes to the old man’s room for the last time.
4.- the narrator kills the old man and cut him into pieces.
5.- the police arrives at the old man’s house because someone heard noises.
6.- the narrator listens to the old man’s heart, gets nervous and gives himself away.

Conflict
The narrator wants to kill an old man even that he likes him, but he fears the eye of the old man. He said that it was because the old man ‘had the eye of a bird’.
Climax
The narrator finally kills the old man after several tries and then he cut him to pieces. Then the police arrived.
Resolution
The narrator listens to the old man’s heart beating while he’s talking to the police, then he cannot stand it anymore and gives himself away.