"The Tell-Tale Heart" <Tab/>Insane adj 1: afflicted with or characteristic of mental derangement; "was declared insane"; "insane laughter" [ant: sane] 2: very foolish; "harebrained ideas"; "took insane risks behind the wheel"; "a completely mad scheme to build a bridge between two mountains" [syn: harebrained, mad] (Dictionary) There are numerous ways to prove that a person is insane, and "The Tell-Tale Heart" is only one of them. But Edgar Allan Poe's short story "…showed first 75 words of 512 total…

…showed last 75 words of 512 total…an excellent example of what makes an insane person insane. WORKS CITED Dictionary.com/insane. 2003. Online. Internet. 15 April 2005. .......... ..........http://www.dictionary.reference.com/search?q=insane Poe, Edgar Allan. "The Tell-Tale Heart". Mankato Minnesota: Creative ..........Education, Inc, 1980. "The Tell-Tale Heart". Short Stories for Students. Kathleen Wilson & Marie ..........Lazzari, eds. Vol. 4. Detroit: Gale, 1998. pgs. 343-359. ZRM: On Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart". 19 September 2003. Online. Internet. 15 ..........April 2005. http://www.users.stargate.net/~zrm/lit/telltale.html.