The Tell-Tale Heart
A man has gone mad. He wants to kill an old man that lives with him. So the man plans to kill him because of the old man evil eye. The evil eye drives the man crazy. About every night, about midnight, the man would turned the latch of the old man door and opened it. Then he would go in the pitched black room with a dark lantern. Then the man undid the lantern cautiously so just a single thin ray of light fell upon the evil eye. He did this for seven long nights. On the eight night when he was about to open the lantern his thumb slipped upon the tin fastening, and the old man sprang up from the bed and cried out "Who's there"? The man kept still. The old man did not go back to sleep. He just sat up on his bed looking out into the darkeners. The old man fears over came him, but in fact death was approaching him. As the man was waiting he opened the lantern so very carefully and a single ray fell upon the old man wide open eye. Meantime his heart beat increased. It grew louder and louder every instant. The old man hour had came. With a loud yell the man threw the old man on the floor. The old man died. The man cut up the old man's head, arms, and legs off and put the body under the planks of the floor. Around four in the morning some officers to search the premises because someone heard some yelling. The man let the officers in and showed them the house. He told the officers that the old man left on a vacation. They went into the old man bedroom. As they were there the man could hear a ringing noise in his ear it became louder and louder until it drove him crazy. He couldn't take it anymore so he told the officer he kill the old man.
The most memorable line in this story is the line "I heard many things in hell. How, then am I mad"? (pg. 3) This line represents the story because this story is about a crazy man who kills an old man. He kills an old man because of his evil eye.
The main characters in this story of the Tell-Tale Heart. There were only two main characters. The first man characters was a man. He is kinda crazy. He is always nervous. He plans a way to kill the old man that lives with him because of his evil eye makes him mad. He loves the old man. The old man never did anything wrong to him but because of his eye his has to kill him. The second main character is the old man. He lives with the man who wants to kill him. He is very old. He has dull blue eyes. He has a lot of money. He lives in a big beautiful house. The man thinks of the old man eye as vulture eyes. One day he just make up his mind that he was going to kill the old man and rid himself of the eye forever. The man was never kind to the old man. He just waited for a perfect moment to kill him and he did.
If I was in charge of a studio and had to make this story into a film. The star that I would pick for this film would be Johnny Depp to be the crazy man. For the old man I would pick any old looking man to play him. Also in the story there were two officers who came into the house. I would pick any two actors for them. The reason I pick Johnny Depp to be the main character is because I think he is a great actor. He can play any person you want. I don't think that I would leave anything out in this movie because this story is good and if you leave something out the story wouldn't make any sense. I think I would add the man helping the old man before he plans to kill him and how the old man's eye drove him mad, because at first you kinda didn't understand why the eye drove the man crazy. I think you don't need to add to much things into this film.
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