Writing style and the reader
Writing style and the reader -Poe was a literary master with the emotions of his readers. He could make a reader feel anything he wanted to with just a few sentences. Through the stories “The Black Cat” and “The Tell-Tale Heart”, he takes the reader through the emotions of his characters using writing methods that draw the reader in. His use of sentence structure and writing style allows the reader to become intimate with the character. Poe knew how the get a reader deep into the story; he could make them believe as thought they went through the deeds with the character. It is how Poe accomplishes this feat that is very interesting topic.
Poe makes his characters more human than human. This allows many readers to become interested simply because they can identify with how the characters feel. Poe uses very basic human emotions like fear, hatred, anxiety and guilt to draw in audience’s interests. The main character in The Tell-Tale Heart had an unnatural hatred for a physical characteristic on a friend. He “thinks it was his eye! yes, it was [that]! One of his eyes resembled...
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