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The Man Who Was Poe By Avi: Scene Analysis

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For my final project I painted the scene, from the novel The Man Who Was Poe by Avi, where the ship The Peggy chases after a larger ship called The Sunrise. The painting illustrates a key scene from the novel. It is an action filled scene, with a bit of suspense, occurring on a stormy morning and it brings the story to its climax and brings resolution to the central mystery of the story. Before the prologue of the book Mr. Rachett, Edmund’s stepfather stole Edmund’s mother, Mrs. G. Rachett’s money so she had to travel to America to try to find him in order to get a divorce and get her money back. When his mother doesn’t return, the family (Edmund, his sister Sis and his Aunty Pru) travel to Providence, Rhode Island to try to find her. After …show more content…

I wanted to show the contrast between the two ships and give a sense of the intensity of the chase and scenery. The Peggy is in chase of the Sunrise because the larger ship carries Sis who was been captured, and stolen gold. In this scene Mr. Dupin, Mr. Throck, and Edmund chase after Edmund’s sister Sis who has been taken and is being held captive on the boat the Sunrise by the greedy antagonists, Mr. Peterson and Mr. Ratchet. These two men selfishly put their needs before other people. They want to be rich and be part of the upper class. To achieve this goal they take Sis from her Ann Street tenement so that they can steal gold from Providence Bank. They needed a child small enough to fit through the window of the bank and took her because she was Mr. Rachett's stepdaughter. Mr. Peterson and Mr. Ratchett, are on the the Sunrise trying to get away from Providence Rhode Island with their captive in order to escape with the gold. Sis’s brother Edmund, Mr. Dupin and Mr. Throck are in chase. (Sis has been taken almost as collateral damage. They didn’t need to take her but they did anyway.) Sis, eleven, is forced to go along with their plan. After they get the gold they continued to hold her captive because she knew too much. Edmund, Mr. Throck and Mr. Dupin set out in the boat the Peggy because they realized the plan when they had found, and decoded a note, written

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