This disease took Poe's mother, stepmother, and brother. Was the basis for the "Red Death."
Tuberculosis
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Who did Poe marry? What was their relationship? What age were they?
Virginia Clemm; Cousins; He was 26, and she was 12.
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What is the "Red Death" a symbol for? How did the "Red Death" affect it's victims.
Tuberculosis; sharp pains, sudden dizziness, people would abandon you, bleeding from the pours, thirty minute death.
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What is the narrator dreading when the story begins? What happens to him/where is he taken because of this?
His death sentence; he zones out and is taken to the dungeon, Toldedo.
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What is the name of the narrator's lost love? How does he try to escape his sorrow?
Lenore; Reading
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Who adopted Poe? What was the relationship like with his adopted father?
The Allans; Poe and his adopted father did not get along.
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Poe never received any money from "The Raven," but he did receive ________.
Fame
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How are the guests dressed for the ball?
Grotesque, creepy, and perverse
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How did the narrator examine his cell in the story?
He begins feeling with his hands and then hugs the wall
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What fills the narrator's heart with terror?
The rustling of the curtain
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What did Poe himself suffer from?
Alcoholism
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What did John Allan leave to Poe?
Nothing
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How does Prince Prospero act towards the Midnight Guest? What happens to him? His guests?
He becomes angry and is a coward at first; He tries to stab the Red Death, but it infects him; they all die.
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How does the narrator discover the pit?
He is walking around and trips over his road. His chin hits the ground, but everything above that hangs over the pit.
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What does the Raven keep repeating when it is asked a question?
Nevermore
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What University did Poe attend?
West Point
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What did Poe do at Virginia's grave when she died?
Cry and fall asleep on it.
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What does the clock symbolize?
A countdown to death
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What do the torturers do to his water? Why do they do this?
Drug it; so he passes out and they can move him/set him up for further torture.
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Why does the narrator become more furious with the raven?
The Raven keeps answering him with nevermore; not answering his questions
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Why did Poe join the army?
To escape debtor's prison
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What happened when Poe tried to meet with the president the first time? The second?
First: Showed up drunk, and the President's son sent him home. Second: Showed up sober, but tried to solicit/sell magazine subscriptions to the president.
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What do the colored rooms represent? How is the last room different?
Stages of life; illuminated red while the room itself is black, has the ebony clock, people avoid it, represents Red Death
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What happens when the narrator wakes up? How does he get himself out of the situation? What torture happens when he gets free? How does he survive?
He is tied down to a bench; He rubs the meat residue on his ropes and the rats bit his ropes off; The walls heat up, start closing him in, and forces him into the pit; a hand reaches down and grabs him.
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Where is the raven at the end of the poem? What does the raven's presence tell the reader about the narrator's grief?
Above the chamber door; The narrator will never be free from his grief.