Edgar Allen Poe
There are many techniques that writers use to further develop their literature. Through these techniques a writer chooses how he or she wants the story to be understood, how the characters are perceived, how the place and time of the story are important, and when to twist the plot in another direction. When these techniques are mastered a great writer is born. An example of this is Edgar Allan Poe. Poe uses each technique in each of his stories. I will discuss in the following paper how Poe uses irony and symbolism in three of his short stories, “The Black Cat”, “The Cask of Amontillado”, and “The Tell-Tale Heart”. The short story “The Black Cat”, written by Poe, has a plot which is based on irony. The biggest contributor of this is the love that the narrator has for animals when he is young. The narrator says that he felt most happy as a child when he was feeding and caressing the animals that his parents had given him. This love for animals stayed with him well into his early manhood. This could be seen by the fact that he and his wife owned birds, goldfish, a fine dog, rabbits, a small monkey, and a cat. Ironically this loved turned into hate. Animals now seemed to annoy rather than comfort him. Pluto, who was a black cat a
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Approximate Word count = 1782
Approximate Pages = 7 (250 words per page double spaced)
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