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    Edgar Allan Poe often demonstrates a type of madness in his short stories. Many times it comes from the first-person narrator. While the narrators are similar in the fact that they are both insane, they also have a lot of differences in the way that they are insane. A great way to compare the way the insanity differs in the narrators, is to compare two of Poe’s stories. Stories such as “The Black Cat” and “The Tell-Tale Heart” do a good job showing the similarities and differences between the…

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    A dead cat, a bloody shirt and a field trip. Why, Honey? is a short story written by Raymond Carver. The story tells about a mother who's writing a letter about her son, who is a governor. In the letter she describes how her son had become the kind of person he is. The text consists of fear and long-lost trust alongside with the mother's various claims of the son. The author shows how some people can turn into something very different than what expected and how not trusting someone can change…

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    Point of View in ¨The Pit in the Pendulum¨ Edgar Allen Poe's first person narrator in ¨The Pit in the Pendulum¨ is a strong survivor but being in captivity is driving him insane. In first person the readers become the strong survivor, that is the unreliable prisoner of Poe's famous short story and they get a deeper, and more visceral experience because of it. In first person point of view the reader sees the story through the eyes of the narrator, their view and interpretation of the events.…

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    Can you imagine writing your personal experiences to teach readers a theme or the main idea behind the story? In the book “War Dances” written by Sherman Alexie, which published in 2009, is a collection of short stories and personal poems that describe tragedies that can occur in someone’s life and how the challenges can affect their daily purpose. Many of the personal topics that Alexie mentions in his book are the Native American stereotypes, his family’s medical history, and loss of Native…

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    The “Cask of Amontillado” written by Edgar Allan Poe is a thrilling short story about seeking revenge through a murder plot. This story is not only interesting, but it also has incredible detail. Through his use of carefully constructed characterization, diction, and irony, Poe creates a mood that is both chilling and horrifying. Throughout this short story Poe uses characterization to build up suspense and to strengthen his writing. Without Fortunato's character there would not be a story.…

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    A Short Story Analysis on C.P. Gilman’s The Yellow Wallpaper The short story entitled, “The Yellow Wallpaper” written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman was a gothic horror tale that was later viewed as a story utilizing symbolism to demonstrate repression and disapproval of Victorian patriarchy. This short story made her particularly important in this certain genre of story-writing (Meyering, 4). When the narrator was diagnosed with neurasthenia, which is the chronic mental and physical depression,…

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    The Fall of the House of Usher, by Edgar Allen Poe, uses a rational first-person narrative to illustrate the strange effects the Usher estate has on the three characters. Everything about the house is dark and eerily evil. The mansion appears to create fear, which is in turn, driving the occupants insane. The narrator of the story is a mysterious and challenging character to understand. The audience is never given the name of the narrator as his significance in the novel is mainly concerning…

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    Lui Napoles Pd.6 Damiel 01//12/16 Center V0006 Prompt : Examine how the authors use the theme of insanity in the stories: The Fall of the House of Usher, and A Rose for Emily. In the short stories of The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe and A Rose for Emily by William Faulkner the theme of insanity has a place in both stories that is showed in due time. The Fall of the House of Usher has the narrator be one of the protagonist…

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    The novels Night and Maus are two very different genres of novels. Maus, is a graphic novel, so instead of being mainly just words, it has lots of pictures and words, in comic format telling a story. Night, can be labeled as an autobiography, memoir, or a personal narrative. So it is clearly seen that these two novels are different genres. Even though they are very different, they can still be compared. How will two novels of a different genre be compared? This will be the question answered…

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    There are authors throughout history that write such unique pieces of literature, that their names are spoken of in all literature-based classes. One of these authors that gained fame by creating works that stand out, is Robert Browning. There are many attributes that brought fame to the Browning name, but his mastery of the dramatic monologue is what defines his style of writing. “Browning exploited the dramatic mode at every period of his career, and is the most ambitious and successful writer…

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