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L.J. Mazzilli English Period: C 9 / 26 / 07
"The Mysterious Ways of Edgar Allen Poe"

Edgar Allen Poe had a distinct way to pull the reader into his stories. Whatever the story was about he made it that much more interesting by using two major elements of writing. The obsession and insane drive for eyes, and the destruction of characters in his stories. These two major elements were seen in the "The Black Cat" and "Telltale Heart". Death is always in the forefront of his stories and usually contains a twist that grabs the reader's interest and makes you wonder why this writer is so morbid.
Poe writes about the eyes as though they are the soul of his stories, telling the reader the feelings and drawing you into his tales. In the "black cat" the cat sees everything his main character is up to, following the "narrator" everywhere and seemingly judging him all the time. The cat's eyes are piercing and make the "narrator "feel guilty, then angry. In the......

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