The Summery of ** The Telltale Heart **

** The Telltale Heart **

By Edgar Allan Poe

     This story is about a man who is so nervous or maybe he is mad. The man lives whit a reach old man. He loves the old man and also respects him. But he has a negative attitude towards one of old man`s eye. The man believes his pale blue eye is so horrible, so he decides to kill him just because his eye.

     For seven nights he went to the old man`s room with a lantern to kill him, but the old man`s eyes were closed. So he didn`t have any reason to kill him.

     On the eighth night when he went to the room the old man woke up. He waited in the dark for a long time. After passing about an hour he decided to kill him, so with a scream jumped into the room. The old man`s eyes were open. Suddenly the old man shouted once. The man dragged him to the floor and pulled the bed over him. The old man died actually he killed. The man cut him up and hid his body under the floor. There were no signs of guilt.

     At 4 o`clock three policemen came. A neighbor had heard the scream and called them. They asked for the old man, the man answered:”He is in the country right now”. They searched everywhere but they found nothing. The man brings them into the old man`s room, they sit to chat. While they were chatting the man heard a terrible noise which gradually gets louder and louder. This noise which actually was the sound of his heart forced him to admit. Also he admits and points to the old man`s corpse under the floor.