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Chewing In 'The Tell-Tale Heart'

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Whenever I’m home, I always think about what i'm going to eat. When the food is served I immediately start eating. When I looked up and saw how my sister was eating I could have lost my appetite. She was chewing with her mouth open. Although I don't care about what we are eating it's just the sound they make when chewing. The noise is gruesome. That sound drives me crazy. I felt like the narrator in the story the Tell-Tale Heart when he saw the vulture eye. Since she was my sister I did not wish any harm towards her, but if only she would stop chewing like that everything would be alright, but if she was not my family member I might have started to think like the narrator of the story.
You might say that it isn't that bad but for me, it is

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