summary of The tell-tale heart

Edgar Allan Poe Is a famous 19^{th century} American short story writer, poet, and playwright. The tell-tale heart tells the story of a young man who was sharing a room with an old man whom he had never liked in his life not because of a particular reason but because the old man's eye was like the eye of a vulture that used to scare him whenever he looked at him. Deep down inside him, he love the old man and he respected him but he made up his mind that he had to get rid of the man because of his Evil Eye that used to horrify him all the time.

He decided to kill the man  and so he made a plan that he was going to kill him in one of those night while he was sleeping and so he went on every night after midnight (for about four or five) to check the old man's room to make well arranged plan for his murder.

Few nights passed by and on the fifth night he decided to perform his murder. The man was sound asleep but he could hear well his heart beating so fast that made him furious and angry. He was so afraid of the sound of his heart beating that was getting louder and louder each time he came closer to kill him.

In order to protect himself from the fierce and the fear that overwhelm him whenever he approaches him, he dragged the body to the floor until he reached the middle of the room and then he took the bed and turned over to the man who was sound asleep and so he killed him instantly.

He checked his heart to make sure that he is dead but he found that there was no pulsation and so it was hundred percent clear that the man was 'stone dead' he decided to get read of the body by cutting the head, the arms, and the legs. He hid all these parts under the floor of the room and he cleaned the mess; there was no stain, no blood, and no marks left. It was 4 o'clock in the morning when he finished cleaning the signs of his crime.

Few moments later, the police were knocking the door as one of the neighbors had heard a scream at night coming from this house, so they have come to check that everything was okay. He let them in and showed them each part of the house and started acting normally to show them that everything was perfectly well. He even allowed them to enter the room of the old man he offered them chairs to sit and he sat with them on a chair which he brought to the middle of the room right under the body of the old man.

The police officers went on chatting casually on different topics; at first the man chatted with them normally but gradually he started to have a headache and to feel that there is a strong sound in his ear almost like a strong whistle the more the time passes by, the stronger and louder the sound becomes. The man gets more and more uncomfortable and not at ease. He starts to act strangely; going to and fro in the room, feeling restless and unhappy.

 The police officers start to suspect something mysterious with the man and the place where they were. The man started to hear the heart beating of the man that now became so loud and clear. He (all of a sudden) pulled back his chair and showed the police officers the different parts of the corpse of the old man where he had hidden in the spot under the chair that he was sitting on. He admitted the whole crime to the police as he could not stand hearing the sound of the heart beating of the dead old man.