Explanation of the passage: In this passage, the narrator kills the old man, dismembers his body and buries him under the floorboards but, in a fascinating twist, the narrator has began to hear the old man's heartbeat echoing in his ear. Eventually, he admitted his actions to the police. 2. How it supports your thesis: It supports the thesis in that it proves how the narrator lost his sense of reality and could no longer separate good from evil. III. ConclusionA. Summarize your main arguments: The narrator has concocted a story of obsession with the old man's eye, so killing the old man to remove his eye becomes justification. But in an intriguing twist, his mind and keen sense of hearing conspire against him, leading him to admit his act and, in doing so, his madness. Proving his sanity meant a lot to the narrator in The Tell Tale Heart, but he ultimately becomes a victim of his own madness (4). B. Conclusion: “Men called me crazy; but the question is not yet decided, whether madness is the highest intelligence or not. If much of what is glorious, if much of all that is profound, does not arise from disease of thought, from moods of mind exalted to the extent of the general intellect. » (Edgar Allan Poe)