Edgar Allan Poe Consequences

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Have you ever heard of someone killing someone because they didn’t like the person’s eye? Well it happened, Edgar Allen Poe killed an old man because he didn’t like the old man’s eye. Poe had an illness… at least he said he did, could this lead to serious consequences? Did he get caught? Will he spend his life in Prison? Suspense is probably building up in your head right now, I’ll explain.

Edgar Allen Poe is the author and narrator in the story. It states on lines 2-5 that, “The disease had sharpened my senses-not destroyed-not dulled them. Above all was the sense of hearing acute. I heard all things in the heaven and in the earth. I heard many things in hell.” As you could tell, Poe had some serious mental problems and is not a normal person.
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And then, when I had made an opening sufficient for my head, I put in a dark lantern, all closed, closed, so that no light shone out, and then I thrust my head. Oh, you would have laughed to see how cunningly I thrust it in!” From what you just read, Poe sounds very cruel, he also sounds very creepy. Who sneaks into someone’s room every night around midnight basically starring at the person stalking them. Poe’s disease definitely acts up. He undid the lantern just a little bit and the narrow beam of light fell right upon the vulture eye. For seven long nights he continued doing this. On the eighth night he was more cautious in opening the door. The old man heard a noise in his sleep then sat up strait on his bed and cried out, “Who’s there?” Poe stood still in the pitch black room, the old man groaned in mortal …show more content…
The old man’s heart raced and vexed Poe. Poe scarcely breathed, the hellish tattoo of the heart increased. It became louder and louder. Anxiety seized Poe, thinking the neighbor would be able to hear the chaos. With a loud yell, I threw open the lantern and leaped into the room. He shrieked once-once only. In an instant I dragged him to the floor, and pulled the heavy bed over him (Poe 93). Shortly after the old man was killed Poe cut off the old man’s head, arms, and legs. Then placed them under the floorboards to hide the evidence. Three men knocked on the front door, they introduced themselves and then were offered to sit down in the room where the murder happened. Poe sat right above where his body was. He then started to get pale, then his ears started ringing, as he felt a head ache come along. Poe finally got to the point where he couldn’t bare the hypocritical smiles any longer, he wanted to scream and die. He shrieked, “Villians! Dissemble no more! I admit the deed!-tear up the planks!-here, here!-it is the beating of his hideous