Tell Tale Heart – Isabella B.

  1. Would the story have worked if it had been written in the third- person? Rewrite the part with the police officers from a different point of view (omniscient, limited omniscient, objective).

The point of view I used is limited omniscient

The three police were exhausted when they had been called to find out what the shriek heard on the street had been.  They went knocking at the door in anticipation to find out what the shriek the neighbors heard had come from.  As a man opened the door, they introduced themselves and explained what had happened during the night.  Foul play? one of the officers thought to himself.  The man with a smirk across his face explained how it had only been himself during his own dream.  He also explained how the owner of the house was out of the country.  The officers followed his into his house as they proceeded to his chamber to speak.  They started to notice though, that the man was beginning to look uneasy.  As they began to question what was wrong, he confessed.