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Poe-Inspired Creative Story

Myles & Etienne

Leonardo Dicaprio had not been sleeping well lately. It wasn’t long before the media noticed a change and when they asked him, he replied that the issue was the result of him hearing ominous voices in his room as he slept. The voices, he stated, at first whispered nothings and just caused a breeze in the air, but then after two weeks they started to speak to him. Nothing of importance, but trivial questions and statements such as “you know who it is” and “You ain’t crazy baby.”

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Protagonist: Michael Krakowski

Mild mannered

Married to plain, but not unattractive woman

Ugly kids but still loves them

Antagonist: Seth Rogen

Exposition: Michael lives with his family in the eastern european town of hollyvood.

Rising action: everything is going fine in Michael's life until he watches “This is the End” and he hears Seth Rogen’s haunting laugh. Michael hears Rogen’s laugh everywhere and it starts to drive him insane. His wife leaves him and takes the kids with him. Rogen has taken everything from him.

Climax: Michael goes to Seth Rogen’s house to face his demons.

Resolution: Michael murders Seth Rogen

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Sanjay, Maya, Madison (character & plotline)

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Sanjay, Maya, Madison (character & plotline)

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Character: Juan Pablo (light hearted, deathly scared of being buried alive, he went to detective school, scared of his past, grew in a small town in the prairies)

People thought he had died, but actually he had travelled to Bermuda and finds out that there is a group of JPWs (Juan Pablo Worshippers). They think that he is their king, because they thought he was a different Juan Pablo. He goes back to his community. He had thought it had been only a couple of years, but actually it had been one hundred years. All of his friends and family are dead. One afternoon the kids go out to recess and they Juan Pablo walking to his house and point at him and say "Look that's Juan Pablo from ch. 2 of of Poe's Juan Pablo Adventures book." He realizes that there is nothing left for him, except for being famous, so he goes back to Bermuda to find the JPWs. He finds out that one hundred years have passed again, but he felt like it was only ten years. He then realizes that the Juan Pablo that the JPWs were actually worshipping was a future version of himself.

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Myles Nelson & Etienne Jackson-Jones

Edgar Allen-Poe stories all include a common collection of eerie details and ghoulish situations. An example of these commonalities is in the Masque of the Red Death:

The very dark red and black room that spread a very negative vibed aura to the people who were around it.

The mysterious figure in the mask that comes in and intimidates the guests.

The host, who started with everything and left the story with nothing.

The people who tried to stay away from the unknown figure but perished anyway in the end.

Common Poe themes are

eerie settings

Mysterious characters

Awkward dialogue

Unusual dangerous circumstance

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What is a poe story?

Dark

Gloomy

Arcane

Mysterious

Leaves the reader wondering

What is a poe character?

Rationalizing

Calculating

Composed

Intellectual

Always trying to figure something out/discover something

All Poe stories contain something similar, the mysterious intrigue of the unknown. The protagonist in these stories never really has a fully formed idea of his purpose, and leaves the reader wondering as well.

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1. Quintessential Poe

1. Morbid

2. eerie feeling

3. open-ended

4. Mystery

5. Unanswered

6. Unexpectedness

7. Clues throughout the whole story

8. Revenge/vengeful

9. Being buried alive

10. Denial

11. Reversal

12. Suspense

2. Quintessential Poe Character

1. Flat characters

2. Psychological distortion

3. Some type of problem (mentally, in their life)

4. Sneaky

5. Obsessive reactions to small things

3. Tell-Tale Heart

1. Obsessive reaction to the pale-blue eye

2. “I’m not crazy”--Psychological distortion

3. Eerie setting

4. Gruesome actions (murder, chopping up the body parts)

5. Revenge

6. Mysterious/scary while the guy was spying on the eye-guy

7. Sneaky/shady

8. Unanswered, he liked the man but wanted to kill him because of the blue eye

4. The Murders in the Rue Morgue

1. Mystery/suspense

2. Random because of the orangutang

3. Clues throughout the story

4. All made sense in the end

5. Gruesome actions made

6. The Gold-Bug

7. Clues to find the treasure (hieroglyphics)

8. Skeletons/eerie

9. Reversal

10. Unexpected ending where they found the skeletons by the treasure, and kind of implied that he was going to kill the others

5. Quintessential Poe Definition

1. Quintessential Poe includes a storyline that unravels to reveal clues to the questions in the story while emoting an eerie and unexpected feeling.

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Poe stories have creepy themes including death and disease.  The stories are usually in first person. They are also mysterious, the protagonist is often the main character and the narrator.  The main character always wants to achieve or find/discover something. All Poe stories try to leave the reader with something to think about or emotional baggage after finishing a story