PATHOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -The narrator says he’ll tell a story to prove he’s sane. During nights one through eight (of the narrator’s story), the narrator spies on the old man while he sleeps. On the eighth night, the narrator kills the old man, cuts up the body, and hides it.

Detailed explanation-2: -For seven nights the old man sleeps soundly while the narrator spies on him. On the eighth night the old man hears the narrator at his door and wakes up. He waits in fear until he’s pulled to the floor by the narrator.

Detailed explanation-3: -Exposition: The narrator enters the old man’s room for seven nights hoping to see the eye. Rising Action: On the eighth night, the narrator wakes the old man up and stands still in the room for an hour then he shines the lantern directly on the old man’s eye.

Detailed explanation-4: -The narrator says that he had never been kinder to the old man than he had been during the week before he killed him. He tells the following story: Before the murder, every night at midnight, he makes a small opening in the old man’s chamber door and puts a small closed lantern inside.