“It takes two to make a murder. There are born victims, born to have their throats cut, as the cut-throats are born to be hanged.” By Aldous Huxley

A best friend of a man goes into the man’s room and kills him during the night. Well, that’s insane you would already think, really who would kill their best friend? This man was creeped out by a feature of a friendly old man so much that he decided to kill a man over an eye. You may think that because he killed an old man that he is insane but, he was very well sane at the moment of the crime and these three reasons will support my case.

One of my reasons that proves that the man in the story is that he knows he is planning to kill a man. One way this is proven is at the beginning of the story when he admits that he is aware of himself during the crime because he can tell the story perfectly without flaw. The killer also knew he was doing this and tries to tell you the story “calmly” as if he did nothing. According to the model penal code test if the criminal is not aware of if the crime is right or wrong then he is insane ,but this man said he pondered on it for a few days and then made up his mind.This one of many reasons proves that he was not insane at the time of the murder. …show more content…
He took the precautions of putting his tub by his bed so when the killer smothered him there would be no trace of blood on the floor. Not only did he put the bath by the bed he also chopped him up and hid him under the floorboards. This man was clearly sane if he could take the level of carefulness in killing the man as he