Prelude. Just before the battle, Grant had captured Jackson, Mississippi, and Pemberton retreated to the west. Attempts to stop the Union advance at Champion Hill and Big Black River Bridge were unsuccessful.
The point of view is that of the first person. Poe decided to write 'The Tell-tale Heart' from the point of view of the young man that is living with the old man. Through this poem, the narrator tells us how he isn't mad or insane, but how it takes cunning to kill the old man he's living with.
He may have a motive - one which he cannot admit, even to himself.. (Hoffman 80) The Father-Figure in The Tell-Tale Heart The Evil Eye is a belief as old and as dire as any in a man's superstitious memory, and it usually signifies the attribution to another of a power wished for by the self..