Edgar Allen Poe
Tell Tale Heart
Connections
Walt Grace's submarine Test, January 1967
John Mayer
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What is Edgar Allen Poe's most popular story

The Raven

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How did the Old Man die

Suffocation

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What can we connect about our characters in the beginning 

Most people assume they are crazy

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Why did Walt's wife think he was crazy

Because he wanted to sail across the world 

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What genre would John Mayer be considered

Soul, Rock, and Blues 
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Who was his wife

His thirteen year old cousin Virginia

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What type of narrator do we have
An unreliable narrator
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What can we connect about the endings

They leave their characters on a cliffhanger that doesn't detail what happened to them after a shocking turningpoint

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Is Walt dead

We don't know, The ending is left ambiguous 

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How many GRAMMY awards has John won

Seven

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Why did Edgar Allen Poe start writing his horror stories

He was influenced by his tragic childhood and the death of his wife

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Who called the police

A neighbor that just happened to hear a shriek

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What can we connect about their romantic life
They've both had controversial relationships with partners much younger than they were.
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What was named after Walt Grace

A bar

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What song did Taylor Swift write about John

"Dear John" 
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Which of his stories is about a twisted house

The Fall of The House Of User

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What can we infer about our narrator

He believes he can hear the voices of heaven and hell inside his mind because he might have a mental disorder that causes him to hear things that aren't there

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What can we connect about the authors

Edgar and John wrote metaphors for their personal lives inside of their works​​​​
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What can we infer about Walt

He may have finished his journey to Japan because of the phone call his wife received 

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What year did John Mayer release his first album

2001

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What was Edgar Allen Poe's first Gothic horror story

Metzengerstein (which technically was a satire)

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What became of the narrator near the end of the story

He started hearing the heartbeat of the old man pound in his head, leading him to borderline insanity 

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What can we connect about the stories

They follow the plot of someone who most believe to be insane doing something that breaks through the public's perception on them

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What became of Walt near the end of a story

He became famous among the town

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What caused John Mayer to go on hiatus

Because of his poor reputation, he withdrew himself from public eye and when a growth on his vocal chords started forming he extended his break