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The Tell-Tale Heart
 * I was never kinder to the old man than during the whole week before I killed him.**

I think that this is sort of wierd because he is going to kill the old man. Why would he be kind to him the whole week before killing him? What does it mean to be kind to a person if you're going to end up killing the person in the end? It's as if I was kind to a poor man on the streets by giving him a blanket and then killing him the week after. Who does that?? This is why I think the narrator is seriously wrong and immoral. Here are some things I found on kindness:

I went to dictionary.com to look up the definitions of kindness. These are the important ones that I found: ~a tendency to be kind and forgiving ~ friendly feeling; liking This is the one definition that stood out to me the most and related to what the narrator in the story was saying: ~the quality of being warmhearted and considerate and humane and **sympathetic**

The word sympathetic is in there. This is significant because perhaps the narrator was feeling sympathy for the man because he was going to die in a week. Subtracting the fact that the narrator himself was going to kill him, I feel that the narrator almost felt sorry for the old man because he was going to kill him. If I knew ahead of time that someone was going to die in a week, I would go out of my way and do everything possible to be nice to the person before they die. I think that is the natural human thing to do, even if it was you yourself who was going to end up killing the other person.1197301155