The story starts off with a man trying to tell a detective he's not mad. The man then goes on to say how he did kill a man, he says how the man never wronged him and that he had nothing against the old man. He then tells the detective that he only killed the old man because of the mans eye that haunted the narrator.
Falling Action
The narrator continues telling the detective how he started watching the man sleep. He says how he just wanted to take out the eye but to do that he had to kill the old man. So the narrator watches the man sleep every night for a week. The narrator said how he would every night spend an hour opening the mans door and open a lantern so there was just a slight beam on the mans vulture eye.
Resolution
Quiet! Your going away for a while murderer!
The narrator tells us how the old man heard him one night. The old man was scared and so he was standing on his bed screaming for whoever was with him to stop. The narrator didn't listen so he got the old man off the bed and suffocated him with the old mans mattress before the old man died he let out one scream. The old man had then died.
Theme
The narrator when he was done killing the man cut up the man into many pieces in the bathtub. The man then hid the body parts under the wooden planks of his house. Then however the police knocked on the mans door asking about a scream they heard. The narrator led them around the house confident they wouldn't find the body. When the narrator was done showing the cops around the house he realized the cops had no idea so he went and sat the cops in the same room as the body.
The narrator sat in a chair on top of the body. He started hearing a noise a little later. The cops were still in the house talking and the narrator heard the old mans heart he thought the cops could hear it to and that they were just taunting him. He then got scared so he jumped out of his seat and started yelling telling the cops to rip up the planks because he did it he killed the man.
Rip up the planks I did it
No one can escape the horrible things they have done. Guilt will always overtake someone in many different ways.