The Tell-Tale Heart: Guilty Of First Degree Murder

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The Tell-Tale heart
I truly believe that the narrator in, “The Tell-Tale Heart” is guilty of first degree murder. This is because, he takes precautions. Another reason why would be, he plans the murder. He takes time to plan how he’s going to commit the crime. Finally, he was aware of what he was doing. In this story, the narrator tells a story. This story is about how he killed an old man. But, he’s telling it to show that he’s not crazy. In the end, cops come to investigate. He had chopped up the body and hid it under the floorboards. When the cops looked around, they found nothing strange. As they were about to leave, he invited them to sit and relax. He pulls chairs into the old man’s room. They sit down and chat. The narrator’s chair is right on top of the dead body. The cops suspected nothing. He starts hearing a ringing and it irritates him so much that he confesses. The cops take him away. …show more content…
The definition for first degree murder, as it says in the mini-lesson, “An unlawful killing that is both willful and premeditated, meaning that it was committed after planning or “lying in wait” for the victim.(1)” This shows or tells that first degree murder is an intentional and planned killing. In the story he writes, “Ha! Would a madman have been so wise as this…(1)” He was “wise” enough to carefully plan what he was doing. He went into the old man’s bedroom every night for a week before killing him. He would do the same thing every night for those 7 nights, and it would take him an hour or more to
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