Lenore's Character Development In The Story The Raven

The story “The Raven” was a story about a man who had just lost someone named Lenore and he was grieving her loss. The man let a raven in his home and the raven messed up his ideas of what happened to that person. The raven told him that Lenore was not who he thought she was. “The Raven,” through the use of character development, conflict, and theme creates a dark tale, because of grief’s effects on the main character.

The character development in the story helped me understand the characters. It helped me understand the characters and what they were going through in the story. There were two types of conflicts in the story. They were between the raven and the man and the man was in an internal conflict with his mind and emotions. The theme

was the idea that someone who you know could be different from what you personally have witnessed.
The characters of the raven and the man were used to help the reader understand the things that grief does to a person.

The character of Lenore was not described in much detail, but from what the bird had told the man she probably was not a good person. The raven was, in this story the bearer of bad news. The man asked the bird if Lenore was in Aidenn, or heaven. The bird then shook his world up by saying nevermore. The man then realized that Lenore was not the person he thought she was and now he is filled with even more grief because, now that she is dead, he will never find out whom

Lenore really was. The man then asked the bird if he will ever get over her and the bird says nevermore.

The character of the man and the development of his grief through the story helped me understand what he was going through. First of all, I could tell he was going mad because he was talking to a random bird that he had let in through the window. I don’t really know if the bird was actually talking back to him or if he was going crazy, so I guess that the man was hearing voices and he thought it had been the bird. When the bird was telling him all these things he thought happened were wrong he was becoming even more filled with grief and he will never understand it because the grief will stay with him until he

die.
Lenore was a character who the man loved, but she died during the winter. The man throughout this story was trying to get over the loss of Lenore, but the bird had told him things about her that he had not known about her previously. The man thought she was in heaven but the bird contradicted him and said nevermore. This applies that she was not in heaven, but the opposite. This line from the bird basically told us that she was not the person the man had thought he knew and had fallen in love with.
There were two conflicts in the story. The conflicts were between the man and the bird and the one conflict between the man and himself. The conflicts worked well together because of the way that the bird was telling him these things on the outside. The man was also fighting with his emotions and feelings on the inside.
The conflict between the man and the bird was very interesting. It is interesting because the idea that he was mad was apparent. My reasoning for that was that he was first off talking to a random bird he had let through the window. The bird also only said one word also. The raven only said the words “nevermore” to the man.
The conflict between the man and himself always revolving around the idea that Lenore was not the woman he thought she was. Every time he would ask the bird a question and it would respond with nevermore he would think and wonder who Lenore actually was, as a person. The bird was feeding him all this information and he did not understand why these things had happened. This then lead to more questions, but all the answers the bird gave were always the same word, nevermore.
The theme of the raven was, “You never know who a person is, because the person you know could not be the person who you have seen. The man had thought that Lenore was a nice, amazing person. He later learned after she died that she was not the person he thought she was. Lenore probably did something terrible in her life and didn’t tell anybody about it, or she had been convicted of whatever she had done and never told the man about what she did. Both ways we will never find out because she is dead now and dead people don’t speak.
“The raven was overall a good story that explained grief and the effects on a person. The idea that someone you know could not be who you think they are makes you think about the people you know. It makes you question if the people you associate yourself with are who they say they are. “Raven through the characters, theme, and the conflict drove this story in its was it told us about this man's grief and how it has consumed him and stay with him forever