Reader Response: Poe

This story starts off with the narrator trying to claim himself not crazy. He supposedly had good hearing and could hear things in Heaven and Hell. Well, the narrator lived with and cared for a man. The narrator liked the man and the man didn't do anything bad to the narrator. The narrator just didn't like the man's blue eye that was blind. It was like a vulture. For a whole week the narrator would watch the man, at midnight, sleeping. He would take his time, take a whole hour just to put his head through the door and shine the lantern on the man's "vulture" eye. The narrator just wants to take the eye out. The night after the week, the narrator attempts to watch the eye again but wen sneaking in the man wakes up. He tries to wait until the man goes back to sleep but he doesn't. During this time, he hears the old man's heart and it drives him mad. He shines the light, the man screams, then dies. The narrator chops the man into pieces then puts it under the floor boards of the man's room. It's already four in the morning and the police show up with a report of the scream. The narrator says it was him and lets the officers search the house. They find nothing and end up in the man's room. He's supposedly out of the country. Well, they are all sitting, talking, then the narrator hears this noise. It gets louder and it drives him crazy. The officers don't notice the noise. The sounds get worse then the narrator admits its the man's heart beating and that he's under the floor boards. He admits to the crime.
"And now have I not told you that why you mistake for madness is but overacuteness of the senses?- now, Isay, there came to my ears a low, dull, quick sound, such as a watch makes when enveloped in cotton. I knew that sound well too. It was the beating of the old man's heart." This line on page 5 represents the story.
The main character was crazy! He's obsessed with a man's blue, blinded eye! He would be the person he doesn't care how things are but if one thing bothered him it would always bother him forever and always. He's super patient because of how he would wait an hour just to get his head just an inch in the door. He thought things through, planning wise. He was very careful too. This was shown when he was disposing the body. He left no blood and even hid it from the police. This was also shown on all the nights he would watch the man sleep because he would never wake him. He was persuasive when dealing with the police because they never questioned his excuses. He must have been strong in order to drag the man out of bed then lift the bed to put it on top of the man.
"My head ached, and I fancied a ringing in my ears." This represents the character, on page 7, because this is when the character starts to go mad. The man's heart beat motivates the narrator to kill the man. At first he wanted to get rid of the eye and in an attempt to do that he kills the man because of this irritation with the man's heart.
It would be fun to make a film out of the Tell-Tale Heart. For the narrator I picture a woman. I picture a woman because I figure women would watch over old men. The person who would play the narrator would be Helena Bonham Carter. I would cast her because of the acting roles she's had like Sweeny Todd. She just has the perfect "thing" to bring the character to life. You can guess that for the man I would cast Johnny Depp. He just has that "thing" also. For the officers I would cast the Jonas Brothers because they are gorgeous.
I wouldn't leave out a lot from the story. I would leave out the whole seven days thing. I'd cut it short to three or four days of staring at the man. I would also cut the waiting for hours just to stick her head through. I would just make it in and just watch him sleeping.
I would add a scene of the narrator and the man during the day. It would be the narrator taking care of the man. With this scene I would have th narrator fantasize about taking down the man's "vulture" eye. It would have to be in some crazy, scary way to show how mad the narrator was.