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Edgar Allen Poe's use of plot, character development, and point of view in the "Tell Tale Heart".

Through Edgar Allen Poe’s genius in “The Tell Tale Heart” he is able to create suspenseful tales through his unusual and unique use of plot, character development, and the point of view of the narrator.
The exposition of “The Tell Tale Heart” begins with the narrator telling the reader how nervous he had been and is. He begins to lay down his defense and tries to convince the reader that he is not insane, only that since he has acquired “the disease” (Poe36) his senses have been greatly sharpened. The conflict comes when we learn that he has gradually made his mind up to kill the old man who he lived with because he had an odd looking eyeball. The narrator proceeds to tell the reader how he entered the old man’s room every night for a week around midnight with painstaking care and cracked open a lantern ever so slightly in the hopes that he would see the “eye” so he could kill the man. The climax occurs on the eighth night when the narrator’s thumb slipped o...

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