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Some Writings of Edgar Allen Poe. “Happily ever after,” this is an ending
used in most stories I was used to reading as a child. ...
... Quite possibly a literary genius by the name of Edgar Allan Poe ... lifestyle, a brief
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Submitted by pezold5 on January 29, 2006
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“Happily ever after,” this is an ending used in most stories I was used to reading as a child. That is until I read a story written by Edgar Allan Poe. He defiantly didn’t stick to the traditional happy endings. Maybe it had something to do with his life. Poe didn’t have the best life, he had a drinking problem, and many of his journeys lead him to write the way he did. Now we can step away from the fairy tale ending, and read something out of the ordinary. This can be a good thing, because when we feel like our lives are falling apart, we can pick read a story written by Poe and realize that we could be worse off.
Death, death, and more death, it seems to be a pattern in Poe’s short stories. “The Tell-Tale Heart,” “The Cask of Amontillado,” and “Hop Frog” all ended with some one dying. However, there were some differences in these stories. In “The Tell-Tale Heart” and “The Cask of Amontillado” I got the feeling the characters had been affected by what they had done. In “The Tell-Tale Heart” the murderer basically turned himself in because of what he “heard.” In “The Cask of Amontillado” Montressor can’t seem to forget what he did, even though it is fifty years later. “Hop Frog” was a little different. After Hop Frog murdered he just left, never to be seen again. I don’t believe he felt any guilt for his actions. Another important factor both “The Tell-Tale Heart” and “The Cask of Amontillado” had in common is the style of writing. Both are written in first person. This only allows us to hear the murderers’ side of the story. We don’t know if what we are being told is true or not. In fact, both characters are insane to some extent so chances are they aren’t telling us the complete truth. “Hop Frog” was told in third person so we aren’t aware of what is going on in Hop Frogs mind. In “The Cask of Amontillado” Montressor planned his crime out well, so did the murderer in “The Tell-Tale Heart,” but Montressor was the one who got away with...
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