What is the central idea of the excerpt?
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1. nervous; mad
2. tell the whole story; healthily; calmly
3. kill the old man
4. eye; pale blue; a film over it; a vulture's eyes
5. mad; prove otherwise
6. kinder
7. about midnight; the old man's room; disturb the old man's sleep.
Explanation:
1. Here we read in the first paragraph, the narrator confesses that he is nervous but insists that he is not mad (he means that ) he is not mad.
2. The narrator writes that is going to tell the whole story and he is going to do it healthily and calmly.
3. The narrator has decided that he must kill the old man even though he has no good reason to do so.
4. The narrator must do this because of his eye. He describes it as pale blue in color with a film over it and says that it looks like a vulture's eyes.
5. The narrator accuses the reader of thinking that he is mad, so he going to prove otherwise with his story.
6. The narrator was kinder to the old man during the week before he killed him.
7. Every night at about midnight the narrator sneaked into the old man's room very, very slowly so that he did not disturb the old man's sleep.
