The Similarities Between Mr. Poe And Edgar Allan Poe

Mr. Poe and Edgar Allen Poe are similar in a lot of ways. In the novel ¨The Bad Beginning¨ Mr. Poe is a banker, and Edgar Allen Poe is a real person. Mr. Poe is more worried about keeping the childrens money than keeping them safe. Mr. Poe is caring. In the text it says, ¨“Come with me,” Mr. Poe said, and held out his hand. In order to take it, Violet had to drop the stone she was holding. Klaus took Violet’s other hand, and Sunny took Klaus’s other hand, and in that manner the three Baudelaire children—the Baudelaire orphans, now—were led away from the beach and from their previous lives.¨ This evidence show that Mr. Poe lets the orphans stay at his house till he finds a guardian. Mr. Poe is very busy. In the novel it says, ¨Mr. Poe opened his mouth to speak, but had to cough into a handkerchief before he could begin. “I’m very busy today,” he said, finally. “So I don’t have too much time

Poe and Edgar Allen Poe. One connection is money. In Poe's biography it says, ¨In 1826 Poe left Richmond to attend the University of Virginia, where he excelled in his classes but accumulated considerable debt. The miserly Allan had sent Poe to college with less than a third of the funds he needed, and Poe soon took up gambling to raise money to pay his expenses. By the end of his first term Poe was so desperately poor that he burned his furniture to keep warm. Humiliated by his poverty and furious with Allan, Poe was forced to drop out of school.¨ This evidence shows that he was really poor and he liked to use money as soon as he got it. In the novel it says, ¨the children wondered what Mr. Poe was doing there at Briny Beach, when he should have been at the bank in the city, where he worked.¨ This evidence shows that Mr. Poe works at a bank so that means he is with all the money. Later on In the Novel It shows that Mr. Poe would be in control of the Baudelaire fortune. That shows that Mr. Poe was trying to get all the money he could