The Tell Tale Heart: The Twisted Ending

This is a project that I had to do in school for ELA, we had to rewrite the ending of this to how we think it would end before reading the actual ending, so this is my twisted ending.

"The Tell-Tale Heart" is a first-person narrative of an unnamed narrator who insists he is sane but suffering from a disease. The old man with whom he lives has a clouded, pale, blue "vulture-like" eye which distresses the narrator so much that he plots to murder the old man. The narrator says that he loves the old man but hates only the eye. The narrator insists that his careful precision in committing the murder shows that he cannot possibly be insane.

Hearing the old man's heart beating loudly and dangerously fast from terror, the narrator decides to strike, jumping out with a loud yell and smothering the old man with his own bed. The narrator then dismembers the body and conceals the pieces under the floorboards, making certain to hide all signs of the crime. Even so, the old man's scream during the night causes a neighbor to report to the police. The narrator invites the three arriving officers in to look around. He claims that the screams heard were his own in a nightmare and that the man is absent in the country.