THE TELL TALE HEART

By: Edgar Allen Poe

Questions:
1. What feelings or ideas do you associate with a vulture's eye? The midnight setting? 2. Describe what you think the narrator looks like. 3. Had the old man ever done anything to harm or insult the narrator? What bothered the narrator? 4. What does the author's tone reveal to us about himself? 5. As the story progresses, what details heighten or build up the mood of horror? 6. The narrator says that he is not worried (page 630), what words or events create a mood that is far from relaxed? 7. What is the narrator's tone during the second half of the story? How has the narrator created to tone? 8. Why couldn't the narrator keep quiet about his crime? 9. What part of this story did you find the most frightening? Why?