Prose Craft Analysis Essay

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Prose Craft Analysis
The Fall of The House of Usher
I came to enjoy the works of Eager Allen Poe just recently in my life. What got me hooked was The Tell Tale Heart, from there I started to read and listen. Nearly all of Poe’s work has been read by the likes of Sir. Christopher Lee and Vincent Price. This is my preferred medium, in fact now when I read any of Poe’s poems I read them in a gruff English accent. I have cousin The Fall of The House of Usher for two resins; one, to examine how Poe wrote the character Roderick Usher and how leverages connections/disconnection to evolve the story.
At times I find it difficult to paint the portrait of a character. However, Poe described Roderick’s appearance in one sentence, He appeared not like a human being, but like a spirit that had come back from the grave (Poe 26). This is only part of Usher’s short physical description and though we do not know how far apart Roderick’s eyes were. We do know he appeared to be sick and was at one point in his life good looking with “… A face that was …show more content…
The connection/disconnection in The Fall of The House of Usher is the nature of the beast so to say. Poe my not have set out at first to write it in that exact manner. However, it did turn out that way. As a young writer I have experienced witnessing a writing evolve to be something more than just an essay or journal entry. I am sure any writer can say that. But, what can be taken away from this is, a writer can add increase the impact of an event by bringing a character “back from the dead” or in this case was not dead to begin with. By “Killing” Madeline her return is more of a surprise to the readers. However, there is foreshadowing when Usher is talking about his sister’s illness. “Slowly her body had grown thin and week, and often for a short period she would fall in to a sleep like the sleep of the dead.” (Poe 27). This is the fear that Usher succumbs
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