The Raven

The main question in this story is if the raven that is portrayed in the story real or not. The story does in deed give out hints and the perspective that the raven could either be alive or dead but then again that is left for the reader to find out in their own way. There are many factors as to why someone would think that the raven is real and many factors as to why people would think its fact and just a product of his imagination.

"'Tis some visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door;—

Some late visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door;—

That it is and nothing more."

That is one of the many lines from the story that to me personally made me think twice if he is mad or not. First because I understand that he had just lost someone

Again, these sentences just keep convincing me it was a portrait of his own imagination, he believed she is still alive and is tapping on his door but he opens and sees no one.

The mood of the story is very chilling to the readers in many ways, throughout the story the narrator is having a battle with his own head as if to believe that his wife is still alive and making that noise but is she really or could it be that he is losing his mind and is an act of the devil? The setting of the story does help portray the events quite well and helps the spookiness of the story come to life. The way that he described the sound on the windows and the way that the curtains oved with the air and so the best part, describing the raven. One of the things that this story has is imagery and without imagery it would certainly feel as if it is missing something. One of the most recognizable imagery there are is auditory imagery which would kind of be nothing without it because it is mostly based on that. The knocking that the narrator hears would not be possible if it weren't for that needed audio of the story.

As of someone gently rapping, rapping at my chamber

From the beginning of the story and the title the readers should already be able to tell that the raven has and will have a meaning to the story and the narrator. The simple raven means something big in the story, it signifies death, grief, and the craziness that is shown in the narrator. In the end I do believe that the narrator had the raven as a product of his imagination and that everything he heard, the tapping in the window and his door, were just his mind playing tricks with himself. I conclude this because just like his other famous story The Tell-Tale-Heart in that story the main character was losing his mind because in his head he heard the heart beatings under the wooden floor. I think Edgar Allan Poe did the same with this character just that represented it in a more casual and more confusing way to the