Summary "Corazon delatador..." - Cavanzo Jimenez Axel Yair 462-A

THE TELL TALE HEART

It is the lyrical narrative of a story written by Edgar Allan Poe where he is narrated in the first person as a subject with certain mental problems (although he himself declares not to be "crazy") that murders an old man only for having a totally white eye which He made him very nervous.

The killer describes himself as a normal person who apparently lives with an old man who has such an eye condition. The narrator comments that he waits several days and nights until he finally murders the old man since his greatest "motivation" was to hear his fast heartbeat.
He murders him and hides the corpse under the floor in his own room.
Then officers arrive who find out the home on the occasion of having heard screams and the killer shields himself saying that the screams were from him because of a nightmare, that the old man left home and that there is nothing abnormal in the home.
Finally the murderer ends admit that he murder to the old man because apparently he continues to hear the his heartbeat