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Iesha Clark
January 19, 2012
Precis
The Madman and the Evil Eye
In the story things begin with a sense of fear and urgency. The
nameless
person explains that he is extremely nervous but not a madman.
The nameless
person says that he has a disease that makes all his senses
especially his
hearing very sensitive. To prove that he is not a madman he
shares an event from
his past.
The nameless person explains how he kills an old man that he
loves and
takes care of, for no reason other than the old mans one,
hideous, evil, blue eye
that has a film over it. The madman hates the eye so much that
he decides to kill
the old man to be free of it. To that end, the nameless man goes
to the old mans
room every night at midnight for seven days. Each night the man
opens the old
mans bedroom door and puts the lantern in the room. After he has
the lantern in
the room, the nameless man slowly sticks his head through the
doorway and he
opens that lantern so a tiny beam of light shines on the old
mans eye. Each night
the old man does not open his eye, so the man feels like he
cannot kill him.
On the eighth night, the old man wakes up because he hears the
nameless
man at his door, the old man is too afraid to go back to sleep
because he kind of
know that he is about to die. The man stands in the dark for a
long time, then,
with a scream he plunges in the totally dark room, opening the
lantern, and
shinning the light on the old mans eye. The nameless man then
drags the old
man, who has only screamed once, off the bed, and pulls the bed
on top of the
old man. When the man hears that the old mans heart has stop
beating, he
removes the bed and checks to makes sure that the old man is
really dead, which
he is. After the man checks if the old man is really dead, he
cuts the old man up
and hides his remains under the floor board.
The three policemen come because a neighbor heard a scream and
called
them. The man says the he screamed while sleeping, and claims
that the old man
is out of town. The policemen ask if they can look around and
check the house,
so the man lets them. After convincing the three policemen that
nothing bad had
happened, he takes the policemen into the old mans bedroom, and
they all sit
and chat. While the man and the policemen are chatting the man
starts to hear a
terrible ticking noise, which gets louder and louder until the
man feels like he
must scream or die. The madman then screams Villains! dissemble
no more! I
