Tellinghuisen,+Alexis

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 * //January 13, 2011.//**

I started reading some works by Edgar Alan Poe. One short story I read was //Message in a Bottle.// The story was eight pages long with small type. In the story the character who is speaking has no name and he is on a ship to another country. He is alone on the deck of the ship in a terrible storm when suddenly he sees a very large ship nearby that is having trouble staying on top of the waves. The man goes into the ships hull as a bunch of other people come running up when the ship starts having troubles. The man decides to send out a message in a bottle for people to find. In the end of the story the ship is pulled into a whirlpool.
 * //February 04, 2011//**
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I finished reading "The Pit and the Pendulum." My thoughts on this story were that of a child obsessed with a toy. I fell in love with the detail of this story and the blunt precisicion of Poe's words. The demented detail of the pendulum cutting through the mans clothes made a shiver go up my spine and almost made me cringe in fear, yet I did not. I continued reading in high anticipation of what was to happen next. The whole story I was wondering, "How are they going to try and kill/torture him next?" I don't know why this story fascinates me so much, but it does. I guess deep in my heart I have my own pit of darkness that just wants to be released but I won't let it. Of course Poe just had to add a happy ending to this story. So to my disappointment the man is rescued before he falls into the never ending pit of darkness and dies. Why Poe had to have the man rescued, I will never know. So until I find another story as great and demented as this one, "The Pit and the Pendulum" will continue to live on in my mind as Poe's best work ever.
 * //February 12, 2011//**
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