The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World & The Tell-Tale Heart

Ericka Freyre
May 30, 2011


The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World starts off with children playing by the sea. In the water they discover what appears to be a ship but is actually a man. The children played with his body until someone spotted them. Men brought him back to the village noticing how big he was they thought it happened because he drowned in water. The corpse had scales on its body. They noticed he was not apart of their village and went off to find where he came from. The woman removed the scales from his body while admiring his beauty. Questioning where he was from and why he had no place to belong to. The eldest of the village states “he has a face of someone called Esteban” the younger woman describe him to be Lautaro. They deeply admire his features as they clothed him. With no place to call him the village decides to bury him in the sea. The women refusing for him to be tied down by an anchor that the men suggested. They were pleased at the thought of his return not allowing the men to tie an anchor around him so that he may return. The village was never the same. They enlarged everything in case someone like Esteban were to return


The Tell-Tale heart is a story about a man who feels deeply malevolent towards a man with an eye of a vulture. He offers to take caring and loving to the man a week before he decided to kill him. Every night around midnight he would creep to his door only opening it a bit so that the lantern he had can fit and he watch this man. He felt tortured by this man’s eye and only hated the eye and not the man. When he finally got caught by the old man it was because a mistake he made with the lantern. The old man grew scared as he laid in bed. To comfort himself he blamed it on what could have been a mouse running across the floor. When he kills the old vulture eye man he buries him underneath the floor board. Where becomes haunted by his heart. The police show up and he continues to hear the heart. The police men make their way around the old man’s house. But find nothing. As the man sits above the older man’s body he becomes anxious and confesses. It was not the old man he hated but the old man’s eye.