The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe. Genre: Fiction. Pages read:7 (20 mins)

The words I chose are mock, rouse, suspicion and mutilated. Mock means to imitate; counterfeit. Rouse means to excite, as anger or action; stir up. Suspicion means the act of suspecting something, especially something wrong, on little evidence or without proof. Mutilate means to deprive of a limb, essential part, etc.; maim; dismember.

I read this in English. It's about an old man who has a glazed over eye and another man who thinks it's an Evil Eye.The man hates it. So he plans to kill him. After waiting for about a week and building up his nerve, he sneaks into his room, pushes his bed on top of him, and waits for his heart to stop beating. He chops up his body and hides it under the floorboards. Then the police come over saying that the neighbor reported a scream. They question him and he's calm and shows them around the house. Eventually, while they sat and talked, the man started to hear something. It got louder and louder until he could take it no more. He burst out saying, "Mock me no more! I did it! Here, here is the body! Under the floorboards! It is the beating of his hideous heart!"

This was a weird story. How could his heart be beating if he's dead?! On top of that, he's chopped up! Maybe it's the guilt getting to him. The author is a good writer.

HLTQ ( High Level Thinking Question ): List 3-5 reasons why someone should or should not read this book:

I think that someone should read this book if they like strange fiction books. The author who wrote it had a sad life. So he wrote sad stuff. Or mainly stuff about death. If you like that kind of stuff, then read his books, including this one.