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The Tell-Tale Heart: The Most Evil Villain

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The most evil villain is The Narrator of the story” The Tell-Tale Heart.”He is more evil than a crazy landlady. First, as the text states,”...and I did this is for seven long nights-every night, just at midnight, but I found the eye always closed…..” I looked in upon him while he slept.” The landlady doesn’t do that, she just acts nice and polite, the narrator does that just a week before he kills the elderly man, but he always lurk into the room and watches him, now tell me that isn’t creepy.. Second, as the text states,”The tired man’s hour had come! With a loud yell, I threw open the lantern and leaped into the room”...”In an instant I dragged him to the floor, and pulled the heavy bed over him. … The grey-haired man was dead…...his eye

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