Edgar Allan Poe had and interesting life. He had a very rough childlife, and had a very bad drinking problem. These problems show in his stories. He makes his stories dark and very gruesome. Like in “The Black Cat,” the narrator starts out fine, but starts drinking and starts to have a problem. He compares himself to the narrator; and in “The Raven” he talks about the lost of his cousin or wife. With Poe losing most of his family it affected his writing and his health in the long run. Edgar Allan Poe had one of the hardest childhood anyone could ever have. His dad left him and his mom died at an early age. He was very quiet in school, and in college he got in trouble with gambling and got expelled. The only thing that really made him somewhat
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At the end of the story in “The Raven,” readers could tell that he was losing his mind because he was talking to a bird! The reader could tell by reading this, “I whispered, and an echo murmured back the word, ‘Lenore!’” (Poe,”The Raven” 165). This shows that the narrator is out of it because he is thinking that this bird is his wife. The narrator keeps trying to talk to the raven, but never really responds. Poe writes this because he felt like no one would really help him or listen to him. In “The Black Cat,” The narrator starts out fine and loved his black cat, but later throughout the story he starts to get mad at it. He got so mad at it that he hung it. The narrator starts to drink and drink and finds another black cat, but it had white splotches on it. He starts to like it somewhat, but then it gets in his way and he gets furious. He tried to kill the cat but his wife stopped him. He and his wife started bickering about it, and he ended up killing his wife with an axe! No one knows why poe made this story so bloody and gruesome, maybe because of his drinking problems in real life. The narrator says,“But my disease grew upon me for what disease is like Alcohol!”(Poe, “The Black Cat” 5). Poe is referring to both the narrator in the “Black Cat,” and also himself showing us that he knew he had a problem, but he couldn't stop himself from doing
At the end of the story in “The Raven,” readers could tell that he was losing his mind because he was talking to a bird! The reader could tell by reading this, “I whispered, and an echo murmured back the word, ‘Lenore!’” (Poe,”The Raven” 165). This shows that the narrator is out of it because he is thinking that this bird is his wife. The narrator keeps trying to talk to the raven, but never really responds. Poe writes this because he felt like no one would really help him or listen to him. In “The Black Cat,” The narrator starts out fine and loved his black cat, but later throughout the story he starts to get mad at it. He got so mad at it that he hung it. The narrator starts to drink and drink and finds another black cat, but it had white splotches on it. He starts to like it somewhat, but then it gets in his way and he gets furious. He tried to kill the cat but his wife stopped him. He and his wife started bickering about it, and he ended up killing his wife with an axe! No one knows why poe made this story so bloody and gruesome, maybe because of his drinking problems in real life. The narrator says,“But my disease grew upon me for what disease is like Alcohol!”(Poe, “The Black Cat” 5). Poe is referring to both the narrator in the “Black Cat,” and also himself showing us that he knew he had a problem, but he couldn't stop himself from doing