Read this excerpt from "The Tell Tale Heart" by Edgar Allan Poe Then fill in the blanks in the paragraph that follows
TRUE - nervous- very, very dreadfully nervous i had been and am, but why will you say that I am mad? The disease had sharpened my
senses -- not destroyed not dulled them. Above all was the sense of hearing acute. I heard all things in the heaven and in the earth
heard many things in hell. How, then, am i mad? Hearkent and observe how healthily how calmly I can tell you the whole story
It is impossible to say how first the idea entered my brain; but once conceived, it haunted me day and night object there was none. Passion
there was none. I loved the old man. He had never wronged me. He had never given me insult. For his gold i had no desire. I think it was his
eyel yes, it was this! He had the eye of a vulture - a pale blue eye, with a film over it. Whenever it fell upon me, my blood ran cold and so
by degrees - very gradually -- I made up my mind to take the life of the old man, and thus rid myself of the eye forever
In these opening lines, the reader is presented with a narrator who wants to kill the old man because of his eye. The author uses the
lines to present a
conflict. Based on this excerpt, this stage of the plot is most likely to occur in