The Descent

Edgar Allen Poe is often regarded as a master of building suspense. Poe develops suspense in “The Black Cat” through the following three events: When the narrator cuts out Pluto’s eye, when the narrator finds another black cat that looks almost exactly like Pluto, when the white patch on the second black cat’s chest forms into a hangman’s noose. One of the major turn point’s in the story is when the narrator cuts out Pluto’s eye. It gives the readers a feel that this isn’t the same person…

Trickster Tales Tell your mother that i am grateful to him and has given me great pleasure.This quote is taken from the trickster tail Master Cat. The master says that he's thankful for the rabbit. Trickster tales that contain similarities and differences of Master Cat and How Stories Came to Earth. In Master Cat and how stories came to earth there are several simularities.One of the first simularities of Master Cat and How stories Came to earth is how they use Anthropomorphism.…

“It was the cat’s voice that had screamed. The cat had made me kill my wife, and its cries had given me away. I had walled up the monster within the tomb,” quoted from Edgar Allan Poe in The Black Cat. Using literary terms is one of Edgar Allan Poe’s strong points in his writing. In The Black Cat Poe uses figurative terms, for instance foreshadowing and alliteration, in a way that helps the story to remain interesting and flow fluently. With plot being an important necessity in a story, The…

The graphic novel Maus is an ingenious piece of literature through its usage of illustrations along with text. The co-relation between the text and images is so steadfast that one could only look at the pictures and understand the message the author is trying to get across. There are many instances as such when we can “read” the pictures and understand the meaning, specifically page thirty-three is a great example. Page thirty-three communicates to the reader the messages of hate, oppression and…

Montresor, The Misfit, and the Descent into Darkness Both Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Cask of Amontillado” and Flannery O’Connor’s “A Good Man is Hard to Find” allude to the thought that human beings are capable of performing despicable acts in order to achieve what they want. Poe’s “The Cask of Amontillado” takes place during the carnival season somewhere in Italy, and details the story of Montresor enacting his revenge against Fortunato (Poe 1108-1113). Likewise O’Connor’s “A Good Man is Hard to…

A painting by an unknown artist is called The Descent of Christ into Limbo and was made in Peru during the mid-seventeenth century. This painting illustrates Jesus going into Limbo to free all of those who died before him. The artist demonstrates his ability to create three-dimensional figures to develop the feeling of looking out of a window. The artist also uses overlapping and shadowing to create different realistic and complex stories and scenes of Jesus. The second painting is by an…

how it supports his idea of descent with modification. Many species have similar analogous structures that have evolved to have the same physiological importance but were not inherited characteristics. Therefore external appearances of organisms matter little to descent with modification, and they are not used to categorize species. Rather, species are classified based on embryological evidence and internal structures such as reproductive systems, which clearly show descent with modification.…

When I was twelve year of age, I faced the challenge of breaking my right foot. Therefore I had to overcome everyday tasks and obstacles like mobility and sanitation. These challenges impacted my everyday well-being which was difficult to coup and become accustom to. My options became scarce due to my mobility which was the greatest challenge of the all. It all started in the summer of 2013 when I was riding my bicycle around my neighborhood with my brother and sister. We decided to separate…

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…

Ursula K. Le Guin’s Schrödinger’s Cat is a science fiction short story from her short story collection, The Compass Rose (1982). Schrödinger’s Cat begins with a narrator who does not identify by gender or name explaining the world in which he/she lives. A nearby couple is overheard having a breakup, yet in this unexplainable world, they mean it literally as the woman turns into a heap of body parts, with the man reduced to pieces hopping around. The most agonizing aspect of this world is that it…