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The Raven Consequences

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Edgar Allan Poe

I withdrew my arm from her grasp and buried the axe in her brain. Edgar Allen Poe is a writer from the 1800. This family had suffered from tuberculosis. In Poe’s short stories the narrator has to solve a problem he went about it the wrong way, and people die, and the narrator gets caught. In Poe’s short stories the theme of the stories is your actions have consenquence. In Poe’s poem, The Raven, the conflict clearly shows is your actions have consequence. A conflict is character vs. nature because he is battling the death of his wife.”Respite-Respite and nepenthe, from thy memories of Lenore;. He looks at the panting of Lenore. The theme is greaf, and he is greaving about his wife, because he is relosing that his wife is gone. The quote reveals that he lost his wife. “On the morrow he will leave me, as my hope have flown before”. Then the bird said,”Nevermore”. The bird is talking to him. The greaf will not get out of his life. This quote shows that he is sad, and deprest. The narrator is saying the bird is going to leave him, but the bird says nevermore.It clearly shows that your actions have consenquence. In Poe’s short stories,”The Black cat” the setting clearly …show more content…

He kills the man by stranging him. Then he feels gelty and gets caught. But even yet I refrained and kept still. I scarcely breathed. I held the lantern motionless. He is thinking about going into the man’s bedroom. This is a negative tone because he is about to kill the man, by giving details about him about going into the room. But, for many minutes, the heart beat on with a muffled sound. This, however, did not vex me; it would not be heard through the wall. He is putting him under the floorbaords. It is a negative tone, because he is killing the old man, he will get caught. This is the climax, when killed the man. This shows your actions have

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