In order for you to come up with a thesis statement, you need to first have a topic of discussion. A thesis statement is meant to concisely summarize what you intend to talk about in your paper, so you definitely need to know what you want to talk about. There are many things in The Tell-Tale Heart that can be discussed for a paper, but I will just use one as an example: one of the themes of the story. This story is a very good example of the saying "Pride comes before the fall", so I will create a thesis statement about that:
In The Tell-Tale Heart, the narrator kills the old man living with him, but he does not get away with it because of his own pride. The police come to his home to investigate, and they never would have found anything had he not decided to take them into the room in which he had hidden the body to sit for a while and converse. Because of this act of pride, his guilt eventually overcame him, and he ended up confessing to the crime.
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