Journal 27: Hints and Foreshadowing

In the story “ The Tell Tale Heart”, the narrator who is also the main character keep telling us he did the right things for the whole event and he is absolutely not an insane. However, when we see more inside the story, you will realize that this narrator is not saying the truth. He is totally an insane. But what conditions make us discovered that this narrator was actually not telling the real things to the audience? Why is he an unreliable narrator? First of all, I think the type of the story is quite important because this is a kind of scary story and the narrator is the character plus the murderer inside the story, this makes the audience suspicious. Second of all, when we are going through the story, we saw that the narrator’s behaviors became more and more weird; he killed the old man because of his eye and sort of things, what kind of normal people will do this kind of things? I think this is the biggest problem that deserves us to put in to the consideration. All in all, I think some of the story make the narrator like this is actually for the atmosphere in the story and make us feel scary! Sometimes when a story is not telling the truth, it does not necessary means that’s not good for the story.