Out of the three topics I will be writing over the first one. I will be doing my essay over four of the following; Rip Van Winkle, Montresor, the speaker in “On Being Brought from Africa to America”, and the speaker from “The Raven”.
“The Raven” is a very odd and almost scary story to some and still has relevance even though it was written almost 150 years ago. The speaker is certainly the sensational kind. His tone is serious, relatively wild. He appears to be super-engaged one minute, and after that somewhat drifting. Without a doubt, he's had an intense night, yet from the sound of his voice and the selection of his words. Like a distraught researcher on the edge of a revelation, his tone is quite energizing. He makes the occasions of his life as charging for us as they are for him. Profound into that dimness peering, long I remained there pondering, dreading"…show more content… There's this one sheltered, warm little room, encompassed by a major alarming outside world. In lines like this one, we can nearly feel the outside squeezing in. At the point when the speaker opens the entryway into the complete darkness, he almost loses all sense of direction in it for a minute, spellbound by the unknown of what may be out there. He's continually searching for pieces of information in the natural world, attempting to take action to things that are just impossible to know. As hard as he investigates the dimness, he doesn't see a thing, and when he hears a whispered word, it's just his own particular voice being reverberated
