https://padlet.com/ashgar3895/houseofusher The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allen Poe en-us 2018-09-21 13:49:36 UTC 2018-09-28 03:57:40 UTC hello@padlet.com ashgar3895 https://padlet.com/ashgar3895/houseofusher/wish/284446947 The Fall of the House of Usher is where an unnamed narrator approaches the estate of his childhood friend, Roderick Usher, on a “dull, dark, and soundless day." He says he senses evil and "breathed an atmosphere of sorrow," he even says the house is decaying in places. Roderick said he was feeling physically and emotionally ill and was requesting his company, so he rushed to his assistance. The narrator finds out this Roderick's sister, Madeline, is ill as well with a strange disease that doctors cannot understand, where she goes into cataleptic, deathlike trances and starts to think that the house itself is unhealthy. Soon after Madeline dies, and they bury her temporarily under the house in a tomb and that's when the narrator finds out her and Rodrick are twins. One night, Roderick comes to the narrator's room hysterical knocking on his door and they both look out the window and see a bright gas surrounding the house, and he says it is a natural phenomenon. While trying to put him to sleep by reading her hears strange noises that Roderick has been hearing for days, Roderick continues and says Madeline was buried alive and she is standing outside the door. Madeline then bust through the door and scares Roderick to death.. literally. As the narrator flees from the house it all crumbles to the ground.]]> 2018-09-21 16:07:54 UTC https://padlet.com/ashgar3895/houseofusher/wish/284446947 ashgar3895 https://padlet.com/ashgar3895/houseofusher/wish/286637284 "Edgar Allan Poe was one of the most important and influential American writers of the 19th century." (Poe Museum) He is known for being the inventor of modern detective stories and an innovator in the science fiction genre. Poe was born on January 19, 1809 but by the age of 3 lost both his parents, him and his siblings were all split up to live with separate families. Poe was taken in by a tobacco merchant named John Allen in Richmond, VA. Poe attended the University of Virginia with not even 1/3 of the money needed for college, excelling in classes he was accumulating debt he could not pay off. Poor and humiliated Poe dropped out of school and came back home only to find his fiance engaged to another man. At the age of 18 he published his first book "Tamerlane," shortly after he joined the United States Military Academy but was kicked out after 8 months. The 1845 publication of "The Raven" made him a common name when it came to writers. Poe died on October 7, 1849, he spent his last days at Washington College Hospital in Baltimore. ]]> 2018-09-27 16:55:34 UTC https://padlet.com/ashgar3895/houseofusher/wish/286637284 ashgar3895 https://padlet.com/ashgar3895/houseofusher/wish/286639753 https://www.poemuseum.org/poes-biography

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https://www.brighthubeducation.com/homework-help-literature/66201-fall-of-the-house-of-usher-analysis/]]> 2018-09-27 17:00:36 UTC https://padlet.com/ashgar3895/houseofusher/wish/286639753 ashgar3895 https://padlet.com/ashgar3895/houseofusher/wish/286798699 The Power of the Dead Over the Living 
Madeline possesses all the power in this story even though she "dies." Both twins were terminally ill but Madeline was able to break free from a tomb and was able to kill her brother just by scaring him. Some scholars have argued that Madeline is a figment of Roderick's imagination and that's why he was so weak and nervous before and while the attack. ]]> 2018-09-28 02:55:12 UTC https://padlet.com/ashgar3895/houseofusher/wish/286798699 ashgar3895 https://padlet.com/ashgar3895/houseofusher/wish/286801200 The deterioration of the house is a symbol or the illness is Madeline and Roderick. When the narrator approaches the house he sees the fungi and the decayed trees, when he gets into the house he finds Roderick almost in as bad shape as the house. The decay and eventual collapse of the house becomes the collapse of Roderick's mind.]]> 2018-09-28 03:17:36 UTC https://padlet.com/ashgar3895/houseofusher/wish/286801200 ashgar3895 https://padlet.com/ashgar3895/houseofusher/wish/286803989 A static character with little development, it doesn't give us a name of the narrator or any background information.
Plot arranged around a crisis, the Usher's being sick, the thunderstorm, gas surrounding the house, his sister dying and being buried alive etc.
Supernatural foreshadowing like dreams and visions, how he mumbled in the chair while the narrator was reading that his sister was outside the door and was buried alive.
The story also has a common man as a hero (the narrator).]]> 2018-09-28 03:44:26 UTC https://padlet.com/ashgar3895/houseofusher/wish/286803989