PRESENTATION OUTLINE
"One of his eyes resembled that of a vulture- a pale blue eye with a film over it. Whenever it fell upon me my blood ran cold, and so by degree, very gradually, I made up my mind to take the life of the old man and thus rid myself of the eye forever."
Lines: 14-16
"They heard!- They suspected!- They knew!- They were making a mockery of my horror"
Line:186
"There was no pulsation. He was stone dead. His eye would trouble me no more."
Line:128-129
"But the beating grew louder, louder! I thought the heart must burst. And now a new anxiety seized me- - the sound would be heard by a neighbor."
Lines:116-118
While the old mans murder was done in a careful manner, it was not premeditated.
I believe that the narrator had a breakdown in relation between emotion, thought, and action.