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EDGAR ALLEN POE

EDGAR ALLEN POE. E.B AND T.C. Questions. What education did he receive? What type of writing did he write about? What things in his life happened that might make him like certain movies? When was he born and when did he die? What movies would Poe like?.

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EDGAR ALLEN POE

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  1. EDGAR ALLEN POE E.B AND T.C

  2. Questions • What education did he receive? • What type of writing did he write about? • What things in his life happened that might make him like certain movies? • When was he born and when did he die? • What movies would Poe like?

  3. when was he born and when did he die? • Born January 19, 1809 • Boston Massachusetts • October 7, 1849

  4. What type of writings did he write about • He wrote short stories like: • The Raven • The Fall of the House of Usher • The Tall-tale heart • The Cask of Amontillado. • The Purloined Letter • The Murders in the Rue Morgue • His poems had struggles between Imagination and reason • Master of gothic In USA • Male charters were insane • Female charters were beautiful dead or dying • Plots involved extreme situations because Poe believed that in an extreme situation a person's true nature is revealed

  5. What happened in his life that might effect the type of movies he likes? • When he was three his mom died of tuberculosis • His only memories of her are his mother vomiting blood and being carried away from him forever • He felt inferior to other kids • He felt closer to his foster mother • Had a affection for women • The arrangement broke off because Edgar had begun to accumulate betting debts • His step mother Frances died in 1829 • He skipped classes • Disobeyed orders until he was finally court marshaled in 1831

  6. What type of Education he received? • He began schools in England and Scotland • University of Virginia

  7. what movie would he like? • Monster house • It is kind of like his short story "The Fall of The House of Usher" • Nightmare on elm street • It is about revenge of the death of family and he does his dirty work by invading peoples dreams • Shocker • They try and kill someone with the electric chair and he comes back as electricity and he goes after his adoptive son and the cop the caught him for revenge • See no evil • We pick this because it is has conflict between what is real and what is not

  8. Work cited • Notes from January 26, 2007 • Notes came from Mrs.. Ventresco • Encyclopedias • http://education.yahoo.com/reference/encyclopedia/entry/Poe-Edga • Web search • http://www.answers.com/topic/edgar-allan-poe • http://www.users.muohio.edu/shermalw/honors_2001_fall/honors_papers_2000/ligas.html • http://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images/view?back=http%3A%2F%2Fimages.search.yahoo.com%2Fsearch%2Fimages%3Fei%3DUTF-8%26fr%3Dsfp%26p%3Dedgar%2Ballan%2Bpoe%26vm%3Dr&w=404&h=580&imgurl=www.americaslibrary.gov%2Fassets%2Fjb%2Fnation%2Fjb_nation_poe_1_e.jpg&rurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.americaslibrary.gov%2Fjb%2Fnation%2Fjb_nation_poe_1_e.html&size=26.6kB&name=jb_nation_poe_1_e.jpg&p=edgar+allan+poe&type=jpeg&no=2&tt=21,425&oid=455b49c6fd3a1c2c&ei=UTF-8&vm=r • http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/people/A0860440.html • http://www.fearfulfilms.com/famous_film_makers/craven.html

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